The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-11-02
ssperesIsIon OF GsznsIer--

Rev. DIR. Bellows, in an interesting
letter from Baden Baden to the Liberal
Chiissidn, thus speaks of the supersti-
tions of some of the frequenters of the
gaming tables: ..t-.
THE superstitions of the players are
a singular exhibition of the credulity of
those who have generally ceased to have
any faith in God or man. Nog-ovelling
worshipper of an imaginary toenail of
an imaginary saint ever exceeded in su-
perstition the mass of the men and wO-
men who sit at these gambling tables,
solemnly pricking holes in their card
gospel from which they read their gui-
dance and through which they peep into
the future fortunes which await them.
Victims TO absurd mysticisms about
lucky numbers and false inferences from
the abused law of average they go reli-
giously on, trusting in their stars and
tied To their dotage. One very pious
gambler who believes in our glorious
liturgy, but not preaching, hurries from
his Sunday prayers to try his luck at
Roulette, upon the "a 10 [chap. and
verse of the text the minister announcesl
Another turns his Bible to see what
psalm opens, or what page cuts, and
hastens to try his luck under such bless
ed guidance Now it is the Nine which
the divinities of the gamblers table have
consecrated, and the next day Seven or
Twerty-three. If Macmillan is shot by
seven men on the nineteenth June, seven
and nineteen would be the secret tails
man of the first, ,gamester that heard the
news, if he were not warned by the fate
of the noble gambler in thrones who
staked his life and lost it upon the throw
Were there thirty-one words in Napo-
Icons letter to NJ. Rouher, offering him
the diamond cross of the Legion OF
Honor, il would be ground enough for a
bareheaded Frenchman here, who carries
his velvet cap in his hand in rain and
shine, to play all day on that number
confident of coming out winner by IL
2. NJ, at which time the tables close
Failure to-day would do as little to cure
the folly of such a hope as the empty
results of ignorant and fanatical expect
alton do usually to correct superstitions.
1t is not the fruit of superstition, but
the superstition itself which is precious I
Religion even in it's falsest forms is more
disinterested than defamers of human
nature suspect. But enough of this
hateful but fascinating theme.
A FUNNY SCENE.-An unexpected Ia
bleau was recently given at the New
York French Theater where Mrs. Ian
der is playing Elizabeth. The audience
had been in the habit of demanding q
repetition at the close of the tableau OF
the drama, but the night IN question 1T
was supposed the house had emPtled 1t
! self without the encore. 1t seems il had
not however, and the curtain rose sud
denly, discovering the Queen of England
restored TO perfect health, sitting upon
her cushions and talking glibly with
Essex, who had survived his decapita-
ton, and was standing there very com
placently, with cigar in his mouth,
/ and a cotton umbrella under his arm.
Burleigh, the venerable Prime Minister,
had removed his wig and was drinking
glass of lager beer, while Lady How
ard was wsltzing with Sir Francis Drake
to the regular puffs of her (historic) nus
bands cigar. The house burst into a
! fit of laughter, and the curtain zen
AGAIN To the amusement of the audience
| o6d the confusion of the actors.