The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-06-26
GAMBLERS LUCK.



Its InnOcent Victim.
Having lost every cent of his ready
money at the gaming tables, an Eng
llsh visitor at Monte Carlo wired a
pathetic appeal for help to a friend in
England. Two days later he received
letter addressed in the friends hand
writing which on being opened reveal
ed five pound note.
Without pausing to read the letter,
the plunger fastened to Ciro's, the IA
nous restaurant In the Galerie Charles
Ill, and changed his "fiver" into
French money. From Ciro's he went
straight into the Casino, where, ex-
periencing an extraordinary run OF
luck, he not merely retrieved all his
previous losses, but gained substan-
tial Increase into the bargain.
Weary of play, he retired with few
cronies to Ciro's again to celebrate the
occasion. The usually genial NJ. Giro
met him at the door of his establish
ment with a food of reproaches and
upbraidings. The five pound note was
badi He waved 1t angrily IN the
plunger's face-mais Out, it was false,
this FIVE pound note!
The plunger took the guilty "fver"
and scrutinized 1t carefully. 1t was
one of the sham bank notes issued by
Sir Augustus Harris and bore on It's
face an advertisement of the Drury
Lane pantomime. The English friend,
himself as "broke" as the Monte Carlo
plunger, had posted him the fagrantly
worthless note as joke-a joke which
had the plunger taken the trouble to
examine the "flver' or read It's cover
Ing letter he would have seen only too
clearly himself 1t was fortunate that
he did not do so. He merely paid Giro
his f5 and, inviting the pacified res
taurateur to share in the champagne.
pretended that the whele affair was an
intentional witticism.
The conceit of a croupier, who fondly
imagined that he understood the Eng
lish language, was Instrumental In pre-
senting another and far less expert
enced Britisher with 1000 francs.
This gentleman. handing a 1000 franc
billet to the croupier in question, ask
ed for plaques In exchange for it.
Plaques are the large five louis gold
pieces peculiar to Monaco. The crou-
pier, fancying that the player had said
"black" and was requesting him to
place the note on the "black" COM
partment of the cloth, did so unob-
served. Black duly turned up, and the
croupler politely handed 1000 francs
to the surprised Britisher-Ward Muir
In Chambers Journal
Onion Soup and Fame.
Membership In the French academy,
the hoped for reward of Gallo writer's
was once closely associated with onion
soup. During the restoration in France
a club was formed under the title Of
"Diner de la Soupe a POnion." This or
ganization contained twenty members.
1t met every three months, when the
dinner was opened with an onion soup.
The club was to endure until every as
sociate was elected to the academy
This was accomplished in 1916, when
the last banquet was held.
Capsicine.
The active principle of capsicum. or
red pepper, is a volatile oil known as
capsicine. 1t is so exceedingly acrid
that quarter of grain exposed to
the air in room will diffuse itself
throughout the apartment and cause
all present to cough and sneeze as
though the pepper had been taken into
the mouth or nostrils,