Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1864-06-17

my word for IL said he. more solennlv. SIN less
than ten years from Che present date penny-a-li
ner viii be as as pest-horse, and post-shay
not more curiosity than minister plenpotentia-
ry,
Can't you see that when a man buys canister
of prepared beef-tea, he never asks any one to
pour on the boiling water--he brews bis broth for
himsef2 This is what people do with the tele-
grams. They don want you OF me to come in
with the kettle besides all tastes are not alike
lone man may ike his bombardment of Charles
ton weaker; another aight prefer his Polish mas
sacre more highly favored This il purely a per-3s
sona matter. How can you suit the capricious
lngs OF the million. and Of the milliom-for thats
the worst OF 1.-THE million that don't want you?
What practicable rebuke, besides to prosy talk
ers and the whole long-winded race, the sharl.,
short tap OF the telegraph
CONCERNING SOME WHIST PLAYERS.
] cannot believe great public man to have at
tanned full development Of his power if he has
not been whist player and as to leader of the
House 1t IS an absolute necessity. Take glance
for alnoment at what goes on in Parliament in
this non-whist age, and mark the consequences
Look IN at an ordinary sitting of e.Hoase and
see how damaging to his party that unhappy man
Is, who aclH ask aquestion to-day which this day
week would be unanswerable. What is that but
playing his card out of time 2? See that other
who rises to know If something be true unlucky
Something being the key-not to hi partts poi-
I
but showing his hand Hear that dreary blum
derer, who has unwittingy contradicted with his
chief has just asserted strumping. as it were
his partners trick. Or that still more fatal
W etch, Wh5, rising at a wrong moment. has ta-a
ken the lead out of the hand that could have
won the game. boldly ask. would there be one
even one-ef these solecisms committed in an
age when whist was cultivated and men were
brought up IN the knowledge and practice of the
| odd tflckY
/ L n
recorded his passion tor whist, and yet he was u
! iirst-rate player: too yenturous, perhaps-too
| dashing-but splendid with "a good hand Du-
ring all the sittngs Of the Paris Congress he play
1 ed every night at the Jockey Club, and won very
4 largely--sone say above twenty thousand pounds.
/ The late Prince Metternich played well, but not
brilliantly. 1T was patient cautious back-gaIne,
and never fully developed till the last card was
played. lie grew easily tired, too, and very seq
dom could SIT out more than twelve or fourteen
rubbers unlike Talleyrand, who always arose.
from table. alter perhapse twelve hours play2
tresher and brighter than when he began. Lord
4 Melbourne played we'll but had moments Of dis
traction when he suffered the smaller interests of
| politics to interfere with his combinations.
! Cornelius maintains that civilians play better
than military men; that diploIHatlsts the best
players lawyers follow. but are apt TO play showi-
" physicians he says are tinnd regard trumps as
powerful stlmulants, only to be administered IN
drop doses, and play on card after card regarding
each trick patient disposed Of having no con
4 nection with the others. Divine are in whist
i where geology was IN the time OF the first Geor-
ges, though here and there bishop holds a good
hand sailors are verse than soldiers. They have
but one notion, which is to play out all The best
cards as fast they can, and then appeal to their
partner to score as many tricks as they have AN
inhuman performance, which | have no doubt has
cost many apoplexies.
On the whole, Frenehnen are better players
than we are. Their game is less easily OWNED,
and all their intimations Reits) more subtle and
more refined. The Emperor plays well In Eng
land he played great deal at the late Lord Eglin
ton 5, though he was never the equal of that ac-
complis1ed earl, whose mastery OF all games,
whether of skill or address, was perfection,
The Irish have few brilliant players-one o.
them is on the bench; but the Scotch are the most
winning Of all British whisters The americans
are rarely frst-rate, but they have large number
of good second-caSs players. Even with them.
however, whist Is on the decline; and euchre and
poker, and score more ofother similar abomina-
tions, have usurped the place of the king of
g;unes
The late cabinet of Lord Derby contained some
good players. Two OF the Secretaries of State
were actually fine players, and one Of them adds
whist to accomplishments which would have made
their possesser an admirable Crlchten, il genius
had not elevated him into fan loitier category
than ChrIehtons belong to- Reehberg plays web
and likes his game, but he is IN whist, as are all
Germans, thorough pedant. remember an IN
cident of his whist-lte sufficiently amusing IN Its
way, though, in relating the reader loses what TO
myself Is certainly the whole pungency of the sto-
ry: mean the character and nature of the per-
son who related the anecdote to me, and who is
about the most perfect specimen of that self-pos-
II seSsion-whIch we cali coolness-the age We live III
can boast of
Iown that, in a very varied and somewhat ex@
tenSiye experience OF men IN many countries, 1
:. never met with one who so completely fulfilled all
the requisites of temper, manner face, courage
and self-reliance. which make of a human being
the most undesirable and unconditional creatnre
that walks the earth.
A STORY OF WHIST. rs
tell the story as nearly as can as he related it
to me: Il used to play q good deal with Reeh7
berg, said he, and took pleasure In worrying
him, for he great purist in his play, and was
outraged with anything that could not besustalned
by an authority. In fact each game was followed
by discussion of half an hour, to the intense
modification of the other players though very
amusing to me, and offering me large opportunity
to rritate and plague the Austrian.
One evening. after number OF these discus
sions, in which Rechberg had displayed an even
unusual warmth and irritability, toand myself
opposed to him In game, the interest OF which
had drawn around us largo. assembly OF specta-
tors-what the French deslgnated as ta gatsr1e--
Towards the conclusion of the game it was MY
turn to lead and played card which 50 astound-
ed the Austrian minister, thai he laid down his
cards upon the table and started iiAetliyy at me.
. In all my experience Of whist, saIu ile, de
lberately, i never saw the equal of that
s.ssOf what, askad |.
. OF the card you have just played rejoined
he 1t snot merely that such play violates ey-
cry principle of the game but it actually stult:fes
There no help for it, then, said Garibaldi,
if you see the thing in that light and good-hu-
moredly quilted the subject, and sooE after took
his leave
A DIrLosIATIsT S NoPIoS OF DIPLOMACY.
81 saw 0'Dowd, cried he, after pause Of
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