Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-17
Gamblers Tricks Exposed.

II nave found honesty TO be the best policy,
| and have gone into a legitimate business" the
boss crook remarked.
"What is that?" the reporter asked, having
missed the crook from his usual haunts
Teaching the innocent rustic and the unso-
phisticated suburban. average one scholar a
day, and the scheme pays very well. struck
the racket last winter, and have found it a pic
mic. How do work it? I put a card in fifty
country papers:
FORTUNES Made Gamblers tricks exposed
Marked cards loaded dice bugs and boxes for
sale with instructions. Lessons reasonable rates
Address -, Bowery,
"The rustic sees this and in the same paper
reads of a man winning S25, 900 at Faro. He
writes me and send him a price list. It is the
same as that used by regular dealers in gam
bling goods, only about fifty per cent higher.
decent profit. But what catches Is notice at
the end: Having been a professional gambler
twenty years, am familiar with every trick of
the trade, and guarantee to make any novice
proficient in three lessons and skillful enough
to meet any blackleg equal TERMS Terms,
81 a lesson of one hour
1.-THE chump reads that and comes on and
calls: have a deal with the landlord of the
hotel and receive my pupil i'm private parlor.
dice or marked cards. In an hour he's got the
hang OF 1t, but, OF course, is very clumsy. We
60 down to the bar-room and throw for drinks.
My pal comes up to the bar and looks interested
in the game. He asks us to let him In. say
certainly and give my bucolic friend the wink
My pal then loses two or three rounds, and
wants to throw for quarter a head. We accede.
My pal loses, the rustic beats him, but I win.
After few throws pull my watch out and
whisper to the countryman that he has a pic
mic, and to work the fellow for all he's worth I
then SKIP nv, Inc n game continues and in fifteen
my pal suddenly picks up one of the loaded
dice and starts a row: If the man isn't fighter,
in the gang and bounce him for blackleg.
You can bet he never comes back, and he
doesn't complain to the police Even If he did,
yf'd "a NOA h
easily prove that he rung in loaded dice on u.s.
The racket's just the same with marked cards.
but only q little slower. What do you think OF
Ingenious; but doesn't the landlord obJecte"
Mao! Don't you see we dizzy up? Accord
| to 40 per cent. Why, I'd pay 20 per cent if I
could work a first-class hotel. On the proceeds
| al and my my pal go halves How much do we col.
farmers and church deacons generally come to
town quite we'll fixed, and they will often yield
century. The funniest thing of the whole
| matter is that the rustic never tumbles to me.
Three or four times I've met suckers we'd
hands and treated They'd Ten c me YARNS u SSW
they put up jobs with the tricks taught them,
but they never speak Of their losses.''
RevivinS a Dead Dog.
AN EXPERIMENT THAT MAY SOME TINE PROVE
BENEFICIAL TO DEAD MEN.
From the Denver News.
Mr.. James L. Finch gives an account of some
curious experiments which he and DIR. Armi.
tage recently made secretly In resuscitating
animals apparently dead.
The first subject operated upon was a medi.
um-sized terrier dog. 1t was securely tied and an
incision made in an artery in its neck, by which
the animal was bled to death. He Certainly
passed through all the symptoms of diving.
the wound his frame became fixed and rigid
and his eyes showed the senseless glare of death.
The room was kept at a temperature of 700
ElrenhQit. while q nv fl
dead. BY this time he had become very stiff
and cold. He was now placed in a warm water
perature of 1855, and was continually and thor
oughly rubbed, and as he became plant his
limbs were gently worked about and his whole
body rendered supple. A half pint of hot water
was now passed into his stomach through a
hard.rubber tube which was forced down his
the mouth of rubber tube, attached to a
bellows, was introduced into his windpipe
dnd as the bellows be were provided with
drawn as we'll as inhaled, the dogs nose was
securely fastened.
had been obtained for the purpose, had been
tied near by, and was now bled, while the at
tending surgeon proceeded to adjust the trans
the live dogs blood into the dead dog. Stimuli.
taneously Mr.. Armitage began slowly working
the animal and bending his limbs and b% odV f
facilitate circu latiOn. We could not have been
more anxious about the issue of our efforts If
stead of dumb brute. When pint Of blood
had been injected, could see some change
e ons hs eyes Of the dog but no
come back? In q few moments more there was
certainly aconvulsive tremOr noticeable In the
BODY. MI Armitagc, in undisguised excite
ment said to the surgeon: 'Press the blood"
In In minute or two the dog gasped, and soon at
whlca
BY gasps and . catching of the breath, while the
eyes grew brighter and more natural. The rub
the dog was struggling as II in at. But his
efforts soon became less violent, and he began
artery, and in tWenty-twO minutes amer the
first blood was injected he sat up, after being
dead three hours and twenty minutes. The dog
him in case OF his revival, and soon got up and
walked about A comfortable bed was provided
recovery was SO rapid that in two days he was
turned out to run In the streets. He Is now q
rugged character, in good health, with seeming
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