The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-28
BEST POKER PLAYER IN GEUGY.
The Dignity of News aper Row Main
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The Dignity of Newspaper Row Main
tanned Under Trying Circumstance.
Washington Post: When the newspaper
boys went to Augusta last month the tip
was given that the Georgia colonies were
going to put them under the table, and the
boys just resolved that they would not 90
under the table and that the dignity of
Newspaper Row should be maintained. So,
Notwithstanding the fact that mint juleps
were showed under their noses with start
ling regularity and frequency, and that no
julep ever went away unslaked, the boys
keeps their legs, stomachs and heads in line,
and the ''kunnels'' did the submensatorial
act by the dozen. In fact, the only newspaper
man who weakened perceptibly was from
Georgia. The correspondent of western
paper fell out of his berth the night before
bad cut. The white bandage didn't add
any beauty to his face, but he kept in with
the crowd. They all went down river on
fiatboat, with an awning over it, and towed
by mule power. Several quiet games of
draw were in progress, and our wounded
preached some of the boys and asked:
is yo' friend poker player?''
"Er-well, not exactly"
"Then you had better get him out, for he
is playing against the two best poker play
ers in Geo'gy: They are the sheriff and
Ths boys wsfed over s sns looked
The sheriff was just saying: eve mustn't
have the money up. Only put up the chips.
It's against the Law, sab. to eamble.''
"Yes, ssh." said the prosecuting attorney,
tits against the law. Wen play for the
chips and cash 'em after the game is
ovah. Mr.. Sheriff, it is yo' ante.''
The wounded correspondent looked as if
he might drop off his seat any minute, but
he held three jacks, and the bows
thought it would be pity to disturb him
just then. So they let him alone for half
went back with the laudable purpose Of
saving the shirt on his back. He looked
very deathly, but he had good stack of
red and blue chips and the sheriff was
perspiring freely. Half an hour later the
prosecuting attorney hung out a flag of
respondent raked in the last chip and
cashed up $3.50.
Use for Old Papers.
American Analyst: Newspapers are in
valuable for packing away the winter cloth
ing, the printing ink acting as defiance to
the stoutest moth as successfully as cam
phor or tar paper. For this reason news
the regular carpet paper. The most valua-
BILE quality of newspapers in the kitchen,
however, is their ability to keep out the air.
1t is said that ice completely enyeloped in
newspapers, SO that all air is shut out, will
keep longer time than under other condi-
tlons, and that pitcher of icewater laid in
newspaper with the ends of the pape.
twisted together to exclude the air,
will remain all night in any sum-
mer room with scarcely any per-
ceptible melting of the ice. These facts,
II such. should be utilized oftener than they
are in the care of the sick ct night. In
freezing ice cream, when the ice is scarce.
pack the freezer only three-quarters full of
ice and salt, and finish with newspapers,
and the difference in the time of freezing
and quality of the cream is not perceptibls
from the result when the freezer is packed
full of ice. After removing the dasher it is
better to cork mp the cream and cover it
tightly with packing of newspapers than
to use more ice. The newspaper retains the
cold already in the ice better than a pack
ing of cracked ice and salt, which must
have crevices to admit the air.
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