Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25
SOME GOOD ALREADY DONE.
Britain and Russia Sure to Clash on
the BORDERS of Asia.
THE QUEENS CHRISTMAS PARTY
Consists Of Only the Members of the Royal
Family, This Year.
cOLLAPSES AND FRAUDS IN ENGLAND
rRY CABLE TO THE pIsPArcH.l !

LONDON, Dec. 24-[ Copyright ALI the
money seized IN connection with missing
word" competitions, about ESQ, 600 in all, is
now virtually in chancery, and the original
owners will see it no more. The prob
ability is that by the time the lawyers have
done with the case there will be no money
LETT
1t has transpired that the law was set in
motion by the Anti-Gambling League, who
were helped by number of city bankers
and merchants, who found that their office
boys and clerks were zealously using the
time and money of their employers for the
formation of missing word" syndicates.
The League has been engaged in another
direction, this week, trying to enlist the
assistance of society leaders in putting down
gambling in high places. Everybody seems
TO be agreed that gambling is very wicked
thing, but few are prepared to join in a
crusade suggested by the League against
card playing of all kinds. Correspondence
started bv the League has already ELECTED
the fact that roulette is growing in favor as
form of gambling suited to private houses,
and that roulette tables "are so made, that
the owner or person who acts as banker is
bound to win unless he has frightfully bad
luck"
This popularity of roulette is evidently
new to the Anti-Gambling League, although
ordinary worldly men have heard of it be-
fore.
a Mood That Won't Last Long.
1t is clear that having recovered from the
great missing word" debauch, the British
public is now entering upon one of its
periodical virtuous moods, and while it lasts
it will be dangerous for small boys to toss
penni es in the streets, and hardly safe for
the respectable heads of families to indulge
i'll the national card games of whist and
cribbage at home or at their clubs. The
mood will not last long, and mean while the
peoples masters and mentors are hurrying
IN shoals TO Monte Carlo.
1t is not known whether the Anti-Gamb-
ling League has been in communication
on this subject with the Prince of Wales.
The opinion of the royal hero of the bac-
carat scandal upon any form of gambling
would be deeply interesting and entitled to
the respect paid to the views of an expert,
but if sought and obtained it has not been
given to the world.
Upon cognate vice, however, less defi=s
cacy was required in approaching the
Prince, because it is we'll known that he is
temperate man, both in eating and drink
ing, and that he enforces temperance upon
the people with whom he is more imme-
iistely concerned by prohibiting the sale
of Intoxicating liquor upon his Norfolk es-
tate.
Wales Is Down on Drunkenness.
Consequently, man who is writing a
book against the evils of excessive drink
ing wrote with confidence to the Prince of
Wales, soliciting an expression of his
opinion, and reply has just been received
from the Comptroller Of the Household,
who is instructed to say that "there is no
vice that his royal highness so much .depre-
Gates as that of drunkenness"
The gambling season at Monte Carlo has
commenced very inauspiciously. Last Mon
day the body of an unknown suicide was
found in the grounds of the Casino The
following day Carl Straus, of Carlsruhe,
after losing $50, marks at the tables.
committed suicide by drowning himself at
Nice, off the Qaui des Anglais. Last night
'--0iN vas d OAOu4sAOus ION III Tue seudIe
Casino itself, and a man who had accused
the administration of foul play was kicked,
cufed and elected by the attendants.
The officials say that the visitors so far
have included the unusual proportion of
snobs and green hands. Scarcely anv
Americans have arrived yet, and although
there are plenty of English people in the
Riviera, they have not commenced regular
attendance at the Casino The cold-bloodrd
gentlemen who compose the administration
love Americans and Engiishmen, because
they are such cool players and philosophi- |
cal losers.