The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-20

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T-sed for q Dummy-Tricks Ex-
posed. g.. po.,on c.,,h.
Vial gathering few evenings ago.
Ns.rarsation turning upon luck. gen
tl7 y rerarked: IAN this talk about thir-
tslDe 80 an unlucky number is sheer nom
iseD What. for instance, is luckier than
sI ~, thirteen trumps at whist"
Do ',-I-5o,b +" replied another gentleman. II
+birtsen trump hand once and didn't
h'-- more than one trick with it"
a1,v could that bes"
aTJI YOU see, my part ner was some
-..t bot-pempered, and when L trumped
w., he Jumped up and fired me out Of
fbe room"
ho he hest whist players in England.
00uI.s,sscuently, however, 1t was discovered
ouD'L vas In the habit of aiding his skill
tasnsrking with his nail the high honors
p nsck, so that he might observe TO
W2 Diu,U NO. the scandal that followed this
,. pa,,a a fop, who had never been ad-
al ss'..5 n his acquaintance, drawled out:
n I l.vSo,,id Leave my card at his house, but l
.sar he would mark IT.
lVa nTLat would depend, remarked gentle
D-osant ION whether he considered it
shigh honor ,o,,o. s,,r1,;va the disorsca-
81 evnosure, and Theodore Hook Is said to
Luz ambalmed his memory in the follow
ing punning epltaph;
iDa s8Here lies the premier baron of England,
PATIENTLY waiting the last trump"
LORD LYTToN AT WHIST.
lord Lytton was extremely fond Of
..b;st and belonged to the well-known Port
land CLUB, in which there were many cele>
brated players One n'emper OF tne claD
t Dla very harmless, inoffensive man of the
r ""1s of Townsend, for whom LyUton en-
t.,aTtsined a peculiar apathy, and would
never play while that gentleman was in
tha room. He firmly believed that Town
send brought him bad luck.
nra afternoon when Lord Lytton was
i,,,syinC and had enjoyed an uninterrupted
I prp' Of luck, it suddenly turned, upon
1Sbicb he exclaimed: 81 am sure that Mr..
Townsend has come into the club"
Two minutes later in walked his unluoky
rersonage. Lord Lytton left the table as
soan as the rubber was over, and did not
renew the play.
Su,ft aliudes to whist as favorite pas
time for clergymen, and Hayward says
that about the beginning OF the century
there was. in a country town in Somerset
shire a whist club, composed mostly of
cIergymen, that met for Play every s n
dav evening in Tie back parlor of barber.
On one occasion, when four members of
this club were acting as pail -bearers at the
funeral of a reverend rether, some delay
occurred from the grave not being ready,
and the coffin was OF down in the chaacel.
"a TFlnn 81
them produced pack of cards from his
nocket and proposed a rubber. The rest
gladly assented, and they were deep in the
game. using the coffin as table, when the
sexton came to announce that everything
was ready.
Goldsmith somewhere tells of an old
lady no. lying sick unto death, played
cards "a ith the curate to pass away the time,
and, after winning all his money, had just
proposed TO play for her funeral expenses,
when she expired.
Mazarin also played cards on his death
bed and while he was 80 weak that he had
to have some one hold his cards for him.
When Cavour sat down to his first game
of double dummy he lost a large sum to a
member of the Paris club. He paid the
money with the best grace imaginable, and
merely remarked that he thought he saw
through the game, and that it might not be
such bad Investment after all. The next
night be met the same antagonist, played
high and steadily for several hours, and
rose from the table richer man by $l50, 900.
BIG WINNING.
Still larger we're thu winnings of Espar-
tero from his foe, Marcia, if the truth is
told about them. The story runs that they
agreed to meet privately at lone farm
house at Bergara to arrange truce betp cen
4bof.. NJ y
psrtero enter the room than the Carhst
chief challenged him to ga ne of tressilio,
q challenge the Christine commander ac-
cepted with alacrity. Espartero first won
al Marota's money, then his own conditions
for a truce, article by article, and finally
the entire submission of the Carlist army.
Within twenty-four hours Marcia had paid
the debt, and the first Carlist war was at an
end
When Lord Thanet was imprisoned in the
Tower for the O'Connor riot three of his
friends-the Duke of Bedford, the Duke of
Laval and Capt. Smith-were admitted TO
play whist with him and remain till the
lookup hour of II.
Eayly IN the sitting Capt. Smith fell back
In iii of ap plexy, and one of the party
rose to call or help.
"Stopw cried another, 1--WE shall be turned
out II you make noise; let our friend alone
until IL; we can play dummy and he'll be
none the worse, for | can read death in his
face
Shortly after the close of the secession
war Zen. Forrest and his wife stopped at a
hotel in Memphis, and, after examining
Their purses, found that the sum total Of
tAeir veal amounted to'S7 80. The gen.
efal, being due that evening at house
where he knew poker was sure TO be played,
proposed that he should tempt fortune to
tne iuu extent of his means, and asked his
wife to pray for his success. Here Is the
story as he told it:
They had tables-one was uuarter-dol-
iar liable, one half, and one dollar and
nan. wanted to make my 81 last as long
aS | could, SO | sat down at the quarter
taole By dinner time l had won enough
70 10 be ter, and after we had eaten sat
eo"n to the dollar and half table. Some
vines won and then again I'd lose, until
hlgn Upon midnight, when l had better
IuCA. l knew Mary was sitting up anxious.
0ua IL mad mad me cool.
4: placed my hat upon the floor and every
nne won ia drop the money in the hat. l
sat mere until day broke, and then | took
my hat up in both hands and SMASHED it on
Hs mead, and went no O.
: When got to my room there sat Mary
~ ner gown. She eemed tired and wor-
lieu and though she looked mighty hard at
no she didn't say word. l walked right
~ 70 her, and emptied my hat right into the
I 10y. od her gown. and then we counted it.
'u'' S1,oOO even. and.rhat gave me START
A CoNJURER AT CARDS.
happening to drop into a continental
Sa'luo one day, Robert Houdin observed a