Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-11-07

to make him inevitably the loser at the end of the
season. These facts as palpable to the players
as figures and the commonest common sense can
make them they know the chances of the game ex-
actly; they know that the proportion of gamers is
but out of ten but these do not avail 10 with
draw them from the temptation. This explains in
fact why so few professional gamblers are engaged
in the game the players are mostly wealthy men,
who have money to lose in the qualification of an
absorbing passion.
The bank does not cheat-in fact cannot cheat.
The players g,umble at imaginary combinations
which they charge upon the bank in connection
with the two discretionary cards, which the banker
is allowed to turn up but these combinations II at
tempted, would be sure to be broken in upon oy
beters placing their money on the winning figures
that it impossible that the bank can CHEAT
successfully 1t must rely solely npon, its 10 per
legal advantage, and upon the Intelligence ana
honor Of it's croupie,s. These latter may cheat by
means of stool pigeons; but they cheat the oank
only and not the public and that Is the affair OF their
employer The cards used never serve but once;
they are brought in bearing the seal Of the Govern
ment and are thus opened in packages before the
PLAYERS They are already shuffed, and are turned
up by the dealer Just as found As as turned
up they are pushed into hole in the middle of the
table, and at night government officer destroys
them They slightly smaller than the ordinary
card very thin, and cheaply got up.
At Weisbaden The bank puts on each table at lO4
o'clock in the morning, at the moment Of commenc.
ing, the following sums: 80 bills of 1000 francs,
80 900 francs; 900 Napoeons, co. 900 francs; 200
double orins 1920 francs: 500 forms. 800 francs.
Total 1914 $50; or, for the four tables $97 COO The
game then and does not cease till ill., ck
night, when the police enter and close the estab'
lishment. The bank may moi cease to pay so long
its money holds out, and as it is nearly always
the gamer, the necessity of stoppage during the
day is very rare. This year but one bank has been
exploded by the lucky players-that of Spa. We.
| isbaden and Baden Baden have gained largely and
II ambou.g is far from a break.
The majority of players follow system more or
less delusive. Each Of these has before him a card
in blank lines marked R. (rouge) and N. (noirD and
a black headed pima touching kindness on the
part of the bank, of which the players fingers pre-
serve no grudge, from the moment that they find
employment in raking in the money Of the bank
With these pins they prick holes in the blank lines
the cards at the end Of each deal, as to keep
the of the game Of the series, as it is called,
| and thus follow out their system.
| A habit prevails of organizing companies in dis
| tant cities and charging distinguished player to
play for them. Thus the present year the NJ. de
Varennes, gentleman who gained last year on his
own account 100000 francs at Hamburg, and lost
it all again in sitting is playing enormous sums
for an association at Berlin he is gaining
To-day Russian general threw bill of thous
and francs the noir without sitting down; he
gained and left the whole four thousand francs Then
he threw three thousand on the rouge fell into the
SERIES gained thirty nine thousand francs, and play.
ed no more. He had his hat full Of bills.
| The Prince Stourdza, of Wallachia who has just
arrived, paid his debut at the table with loss Of ca
| 600 francs.
| There is here handsome woman, vet young
| she attracted my attention the moment my eyes fell
upon the tabe-who is inceSSant and success
FIJI player. Her name is Madame Bicrchp hcitfer-I
believe that is the photography, and she already
occupies prominent place in the literary world Of
| Germany. as an althOr of ro.nanceS and comedies
! She invariably played high, and had a most formd
, able pile OF god before her which to operate.
/ The aged Countess de kisseleff PLAYS the whole
day long When she l,ses she makes grimace
! ambules.
! N. de Rothschild was here few days ago, but a
! bank that only had bottom of hundred thousand
dollars was no temptation to him: he plays with
| kings and governments
| There is young man here, who has not at all the
| air of having been born with golden spoon in his
mouth, who came to Wiesbaden with very little
ney, and commenced by playing very small sums.
Then he fell into series and carried off sum of
/ 100000 francs! He went to Ems and lost great
part of this, returned here again. and is regain
| ing his lost money. Each OF his last two stings
! gave him return of sc, 900 francs He PLAYS a
| game of fantasy, and plays it with sung tioid
! which even millionaire might De proud of. lie
! has bought himself carriage and horses
Nothing so much di>turbs the e1ianilny Of the
bankers OF the hufs0al and the doctors of the Their
NAL springs as death funeral. When man
at the end of his is seized with the fantasy
| of blowing his brains out. when an individual
quits this world in less noisy manner he is inter-
ed, 1t possible between two days, without the sound
of the church bell or the chanting of the requiem,
and the procession is conducted out of the city so
! as not to brighten the living There iS a certain
spring in France, even, where one ever dies, be.
! cause the doctors take the precauton to evacuate
all doubtful cxstences upon their neighbours of an.
| other spring. So these doctors say that at their
spring people never die; they haze to a,cay to
/ die.
One day poor devil at the end of the ma
terra medica, hydropathy included, was about to de-
| The doctor wanted to turn him over to the rival
spring in neghboring department
"No, said the man, ats use let me die here
in peace"
"De !" cried the DOCTOR "No you will not die
People don't die here ~
And he bribed the family, who were poor, to
transport the dying man to grave elsewhere.
MALAKOFF.