The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-10-25
All Around Town.

The innate nature of the human be-
ing to firt with the tickle goddess of
chance, to wager value against value
with the hope that luck will ccn1, your
way, is cropping out in the urc..lrls of
Paris in many unique ways. One of
these grows out of the fad to s'save
1.-The tags and other premium drawing
certifcates that are ever present in
the cigarette cocoon, on each plug of
tobacco, and has been known TO be on
the loaf of bread that the baker sends
to our homes.
1t is no unusual sight to see bevy Of
children, some of them toddles.
'bucking the tiger of chance" by
! matching cigarette certificates. Thew
do 1T IN their own unique manner. One
will flip coupon in the air; it falls to
the gound with certain side I'D. The
| other will follow suit, and if his sin
OF paper lands with the same side.up
he has matched" his opponent. and
wins the slip. Then it is his turn to
take the initiative. He flips a coupon
1t floats to the ground and he wins or
loses as the case may be. If the
coupon falls with an adverse side I'D.
the last to catch his coupon loses, for
he has failed to match his oppo-
nent.
This is favorite pastime with
school boys, and the craze is not con-
fined alone to the boys. The little
girls have found the desire to win
something contagious, ard they are
alert to clip the coupons from almost
any cid thing, and to GO the match
ing game same as the boys. 1t is not
strange that one little girl will have
all the coupons in ncighborhood,
having curried the favor of Good
Luck in her gambling with her play
mates.
You cigarette smokers, haven't you
often been stopped by some eager eyed
boy or girl with the question: Got
any cigarette pictures?"
The other night man who had i'm
nloed a little too much sauntered into
Craven,s quick lunch emporium when
every body was busy. Steadying him
self against the counter, he vainly at
tempted to attract the attention of
Claude Croe, the chef on duty, who
was busily waiting on a numerous as
sortment of customers all at once.
Finally Grove got over the rush, and
taking heed of theEman, asked the
"sonsed" party what he wanted.
want some brains" was the re-
ply.
We don't keep the kind you need, -
replied Grove, in a sarcastic voice,
and the inebriated enc passed slowly
out.
Say, do you know the three sting
lest men in Parish" asked a sport of
the writer, the other night during
social gabfest.
The newspaper man having dealings
only with the wealthy classes, could
not name them.
Well, kiddo, they're so and so and
SO and so,m calling them by their
names. why, ono of these chaps
,won, t drink all the water he wants an
less he can get it from someone who
takes ice; another stops his clock at
night to save the wear and tear on the
machinery, and the third makes the
members of his family write in a
small hand in order to save ink.
Neither one takes newspaper. They
claim that reading newspapers wears
out their spectack's.
Did you ever hear woman tell
story where she fumbled the begin
ming, got the middle of it all mixed
up, then owned at the end she had
really forgotten the point of the story
after all, but that it was very funny?
A remarkably skinny young woman,
whose frame seemed to hardly have
enough flesh on it to cover the bones.
drifted into John Doty's photograph
gallery the other day and after the
preliminaries were arranged. posed
for photograph. She was exceed
lngly anxious to have a good likeness
and of course Doty was exceedingly
anxious to please her. After the Sit
ting was concluded and the walking
skeleton was taking her departure.
she turned to the photographer and re-
marked, wish you would take great
pains insfnishing myIpictures. why.
certainly, Miss. replied Doty. '.for
see you want to be well developed for