Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29

stopped Napoleon, who was taking up
a trick that 81 not belong TO him.
saying Sire. % ne joue pas lei en-
c0ncueranti" In his exile, we are
told, the Emperor spent nearly every
evening at whist or vingt-et-un, and
it is to be presumed he had more
leisure to attend strictly to the game.
Charles X was another unfortunate
French monarch who loved his rubber
of whist. He was playing hard to
save the game, at st. Cloud, on July
20, 1880. when the tri-color, waving
over the Tuileries, announced that he
had lost his throne. Still another ex-
ample is furnished by Napoleon III.
or Napoleon the Little" as Victor
Hugo loved to call him. His whist
training was obtained in England,
where he played frequently at Lord
Eglinton's. Throughout life he was
devoted TO the game. In the begin
ming of his career he played a bold
game, but later on the characteristics
which marked his course in the politi-
cal world were also revealed in his
play. He never seemd to know his
own mind, and the scheme of the
game with which he started out he
frequently abandoned. OF all the royal
or princely whist-players of France
the most distinguished was perhaps
Prince Talleyrand. He was considered
one of the first players of his day, and
in his old age whist was part OF his
pleasant daily occupation. What"
said he, addressing a young man who
had confessed that he knew nothing
OF the game. you do not play whist?
Tka< 11l
for YOURSELF" 1t is related of HIM
that often when in England, on affairs
of state, in his younger days, he would
leave the whist table at three in the
morning and then go home to dictate
to secretary for an hour or two.
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TAII4EYRAND A LIFELONG
Whistler.
Like Talleyrand, the polite but gem
orally distrusted Chesterfield was a life
long whist player, who in advanced
life was accustomed every evening to
play his rubber. Lord BeGconsield
loved the game and frequently played
with the Prince of Wales, and also
with James Clay, who was his friend
and travelling companion, and the finest
player in England in his day. Speak
ing of prime ministers, the Count Ca
YOUR of Italy was whist player whose
zeal for tho game was unquenchable.
He founded the Societe du Whist at
Turin, and was dashing and venture
some player. Prince Metternich, for
nearly half century prime minister
of Austria, was another example. 1t
is related that he owed to single
game the greatest sorrow of his life.
One evening while he was engrossed
in his favorite play, an express arrived
with dispatches from Galicia. lie
placed the papers ON the mantel-piece
and the play continued until far into
the morning When the party broke
up he was Mortified to learn that upon
his immediate reply depended the fate
of two thousand innocent persons.
Had Metternich loved whist less pas
sionately," said the chronicler OF the
event, history had never recorded the
infamous Galician massacre"
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Won MOLTKE'S LAST RUBBER.
Marlborough, Wellington, Blucher,
Won Moltke, were all skilled in whist
as we'll as war. OF Napoleon we have
already spoken. Marlborough played
the game great deal in his old age,
and it is said of him that he recog-
nized its merits long before 1t had
become fashionable Butcher lost
heavily at whist in Paris, after the
VICTORIOUS entry of the allies, especl-
ally when playing against the great
player Deschapelles, who reJoiced in
thus being able to revenge himself
upon the enemy of his country. Won
Moltke, the greatest strategist OF re-
cent times, played his usual rubber
the night before his death. On this
occasion he had remarkable luck, and
his partner, who usually held poor
hands, was equally fortunate. Tho
old field-marshal was in high spirits.
Nun haben wir sie!" CHOW we have
them!") he exclaimed. with a smile,
as he played his last hand. Without
any assistance from his partner, no
won the rubber with a slam. taking
all thirteen tricks. 1t was remark
able performance. even though 1t was
afterward asserted that the game was
Cayenne, a species OF whist In which
the dealer and his partner have the
privilege OF changing the trump from
the suit turned up, II they so elect
William Mill Butler. in Whist