Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-31
How a French Clubis started.

From the Fertnightly Review.l
 I had capital dinner, and cigar of the first choice and after this everybody went into the card room. Gina cents louis en banque were the first words heard, and then I watched the people play. I understood nothing of baccarat in that day, and my friend had to explain to me how it was played, how much the different counters were worth, and how the man sitting in the centre of the table opp osite the dealer, and passing the cards to the players with sort of latn, and paying out counters or 1aking them in after each coup, was an attendant, called a croupier, specially engaged for the purpose of conducting the play: i was struck by seeing this croupier at each bank and sometimes oftener, about every ten min
 utes on an average, drop several counters of louis each into small slit in the table, within easy reach of his hand. 'sWhy is he doing thata" I asked my friend. 'sThat is the percentage which the house takes on the bank, , he replied, ostensibly for the use of the cards. That sit you perceive into which the money is dropped is called the cagnotte. Not wishing to play myself, and having nothing else to do, I thought would see ex- actly how m uch the croupier would put iii this cagnotte within a given time, and l found that in an hour 29 louis had been levied on the various banks. .'But at this rate," said to my friend, ''the house mus. take in an immense lot of money in the course of month"; ''Rather" he replied, s'it is one of the most money making con- cerns in the world" "And how do they manage to start these clubsa" I asked. "Well, you see it all depends upon the Pre- lecture; if you can only get an authorization
 you will find any number of capitalists to give you what money you want to carry on your club with" I said nothing, but de termined to get an authorization for 8 club myself if could. spoke about it to some of my friends syou must know that 1 was then fabrilcant de bronzes, and got my de- coration just after the war for having al lowed them to convert lot of my bronzes into cannon for the defense of Paris-I spoke to my friends, and we formed com mittee, and then waited on the Prefect's secretary with document setting forth that a commercial gentleman of the-Arrondisse ment wished to open a club where they could meet after the business of the day, etc. 'Yes, but are you you will have no cards?" said the secretary; Monsieur le Prefet won't hear of gambling" 'Oh no, of course not, ," said, 'only little piquet perhaps, or ecarte, nothing more" We'll af- ter waiting few months I got my authori- zation and then that scoundrel Theodore, who cheated me out of 0,000f. later on, came in with capital as cashier; old Z. the usurer came in too, and we took that apart ment on the boulevards-oniy 60,O00f. rent
 We sent out our invitations to the press and to the leading players and gave grand din ner for the opening night. Well, sir, you may believe me if you like, but we made 12, 000f. cagnotte in that one evening, and the first year had 300, ,000f for my share and ought to have had more, only Theodore and z. swindled me. But then, of course, had to play; I had to keep the game going, and the luck was always against me. I had to sell out my share in the club. =
 How to Eat.
 [The Family Doctor in Cassell's Magazine.l
 The primary act of digestion takes place in the mouth A simple statement certain