St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-28
THE SUICIDES PARADISE.n
Life, Play and Shadow Mt Lovely
Monte Carlo.
The Lady Who Died I'm Her Bath--Pis-
toll Shots Amid Climbing Gold.

tot Shots Amid Chinktng Gold.
Paris Correspondence: The season at
Monaco is at its height. While fogs are
hanging heavy over London and snow is
lying on the bOulevards of Paris, all is sun
light and gayety, brightness and warmth
in Monaco.
The lupins and the rises. the jasmines
and the roses that line the trim, graveled
walks leading from the railway station 10
Monte Carlos casino are already bursting
into bloom, and the breezes that sweep in
from over the sea are Zephyr-like and
balmy. Under these favorable conditions
IL Is that visitors are crOwding to Monaco,
and the hotels are daily showing long lists
Of new arrivals.
The baths, which furnish convenient
and reputable motive for ones presence in
Monaco, are being fairly we'll patronized,
but Il is the rouge ct noir and the roulette
tables of the Casino that are the really abb
sorbing objects of attention.
y young English nObleman who was
cleaned out of 500. 900 francs in few hours
some weeks ago has just returned eager as
ever TO the green cloth. and during lucky
run has succeeded in winning back little
over half his losses.
a curious story Is being whispered about
young man recently arrived, who has at
tracted attention by his heavy play and by
his great run of luck so far.
BE Is said to be young Partisan who re-
Gently inherited quite a reputable little for
tune from a maternal aunt He began visit
Ing the gambling salons of Paris, and one
night found himself with his last sou staked
on the table.
As the turn showed him to have lost, he
uttered loud and heartrending cry and
drew bulky powder flask from his pocket.
Rushing over to the stove. he tore open
the door and, with the wild gesture of a
madman. hurled the flask in upon the red
hot Goals.
1T is dynamite-dynamiter he shrieked.
With hoarse shout of horror the crowd
around the tables parted. and gamesters
dealers and everybody fled for their lives.
Arrived at various points of safety in the
outer air they breathlessly awaited. ex-
pecting every moment to see the building
take hurried ascent into the air.
Minutes passed and still no explosion oc-
CURED. Then the dealers FASTENED hack to
the building. They found the desperate
dynamiter had vanished, after generously
helping himself i'm his solitude from the
money on the table and in the drawer,
taking thence more thousands, it is alleged,
than he had brought in.
As for the dynamite can melting away
Ola the Goals, it contained merely some
harmless material of dark color, probably
black sand. AS gambling is against the
law in Paris he was lett in delightful I'M
munity after his escapade.
Now he has turned up in Monaco with
plenty of money and seemingly intermin-
able run of luck.
Talking of luck, it is simply marvellous
the superstitiOns that gambling seems to
breed. and nowhere are these superstitions
more common than at Monaco.
Professors of the mystic are as thick in
Monaco as flies around sugar barrel.
Some of them simply forecast your luck
in the good old fOrtune-telling style; Others
offer to sell luck charms, which vary in
character from relics brought from Rome to
pieces of rope with which some criminal
was executed.
The lowest sum which the rule of the
management allows TO be staked on the
tables is francs-S1.
The sum remains unchanged, but the
highest limit allowed to be staked on turn
of the roulette wheel has been raised from
5000 10 s, 900 francs.
This increase was due to the complaints
of some Russian noblemen that the 5, 600
franc limit was too low.
Two new roulette tables have lately had
to be added in the grande sale.
The game, as played at Monaco, is as
follows:
One of the bankers puts the movable
bottom of the roulette table in motion and
at the same instant throws in an ivory ball.
This ball. after making a number of revo-
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seven numbered holes around the table
the hole into which it falls determining the
gain or loss of the player.
A player may stake his money on any of
the thirty-seven numbers and before the
wheel is set in motion he shows what num-
Der he selects by placing his stake beside
il.
If he has selected the number correspond |
ing to that in which the ball falls he re-
ceives thirty-fve times over the amount of
his stake.
If he has divided his chance between two !
numbers he receives eighteen times the |
amount of his stake; if among three num- |
bers. twelve times the amount of his stake, |
and so on.
The effort made by the management of !
Monte Carlo to keep up every outward SEM |
blauce of responsibility, as shown in its es-
Enlistment of baths and its rule not to adj |
nit any one to the casino who has not made |
formal application to the special commits |
siouer, is strongly emphasized in its horror |
of suicide on the part of unlucky gamblers
at the tables.
Such happenings are considered vulgar |
and consequently undesirable. and the man
agement does all in its power to guard |
against such occurrences. Any unlucky
player who is suspected of suicidal tenden-
ces is closely watched. and upon many oe-
casions is furnished with wholesome advice |
and even money to carry him to respect |
able distance from the principality.
Not long ago beautiful young widow
who had lost her all at the tables took her I
life. A Sybarite throughout her existence |
she at least chose q comfortable way of !
passing ont of it.
She filled her bath with warm water. de- |
liberately scented il with delicate perfumes. |
and then, stepping into it. opened vein.
She was quite dead when found. the local
doctor, who was called in. vOuchIng that !
her exit from this mundane sphere must !
have been a sensuously delightful one.
Every effort was made By the manage |
ment to keep the affair as quiet as possible. |
the story being spread that the lady had |
suceumbed while in her bath to an attack !
Of cerebral congestion.
Thus are the light, warm, sunshiny days !
being passed at Monaco.
No one basks i'm the genial sunlight. en-
joys the perfumes of the roses, or looks out |
over the laughing waves at the snow-white |
sails of the little fishing boats flashing in |
the sunlight.
In the casino itself the players sit around |
the tables flushed. excited, calm. self-pOs- |
sessed or moody. according to their individ- |
ual temperaments, and above all rises the
chink of the gold as the cronDie,ss rakes