New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-09

a., .;oces needed one of them to pay TOT my
sa.,rr ticket TO -. where was then Studying
n1,o cost determined to risk played them, one
-, ono and lost until laid down my last tnaier'
~. won. / placed it and my winnings on uhe
III and won again. l repeated the experiment
s.,d ,von n third time. Thoroughly infatuateo'
oa,t;nued 10 play on through the afternoon even
irr and night until the bell rang which siSnl'ieu
,ho. the game was over until the next day FROM
,ho moment began to win it seemed impossioic
Cor me 10 lose, and accordingly L rose irom tiie
,hle with pile Of silver before me as Dig arouhu,
nc IL seems to me as L now recall III, as ousn0'
basket. | wondered how / ever was going 10 lug
IL home. / filed all my pockets full ana then III
nv embarrassment Of riches asked strahgel az
Nv, side if it would be possible to obtain gold Ior
Tho nile that still remained on the table i'o
ren,ied in the affirmative and offered to make
tho exchange for me. SO he gatheieu
m the silver, went out, and presently
returned with quantity of gold pieces. How
much silver he carried of didn't know; didn
stop TO count it, If he charged me hoerai
commission for his services, l was none tne
wiser. / only remember that when l got PACK
n nv room at l cmptied all my pockets
and tho handkerchief in which / had carried away
nv gold and proceeded to count my gains
fonnd that had won considerably more money
than all the funds which / had carried WIN hio
from America for my years expenses"
At the conclusion of this incident one OF Inoo0
who had listened to it said to its narrator; wei
with such q beginning you ought to have ue''i-
opcd into thorough-going gambler"
"On the contrary" said the other, the lact
is. / have never entered a gambling esUaoisn y,
mcnt from that day TO this. You see, L leu
I couldn't afford to-I had always peeh d
mathematician, and l figured it out thai accoru-
ing to the law of averages, I could never nave
such stroke of luck again. So with me IL wa"
once and out"
One of "the mysteries of Paris" upon whlch
Eugene Sue did not touch are the funeral wreathS.
In his lovely little ballad of Paris La Grlset'e'
DR.. Holmes sings to that engaging young person
In vain In vain we meet no mere
Nor dream what fates b"fall
And long upon the strangers shore
My voice on thee may call os
That tells thy name and days,
And wlthered on thy simple cross,
The wrcaths of Perc-laChalse!
The mystery of most of the funeral wreathS
that affection has placed upon the crosses ano
other monuments of Pcre-la-Chaise is thai they
should be so ugly, seeing that French taS'e Is
commonly regarded as o synonyme for perfect
taste. They are fashioned of beads OF diHer-
ent colors, black, white, blue, lavender ana
are deplorably crude, artificial and unattrachve
and give the finishing touch to Pere-la-C nalse
repulsiveness They are not perishable, and that
fact doubtless goes far to account for their use
by the French masses. But it is pleasant TO re-
feet that on the simple cross that marks where the
little grisette sleeps was placed flower wreath
like herself, it could wither, but like herself,
while it endured it was thing OF grace and
beauty. '" H. NioH'