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A GAME OF WHIST.
[Buffalo Courier.]
: If you the modern game of whist would
know,
From this great principle its precepts flow;
Treat your hand as to your partner’s joined,
And play not one alone, but both combined.
Your first lead makes your partner under
stand
What is the chief component of your hand;
And hence there is necessity the strongest
That your first lead be from your suit that’s
longest.
For this, with ace and king, lead king, then
ace;
With king and queen, king also lias first
place;
With aee, queen, knave, lead ace and then
the queen;
With ace, four small ones, ace should first
he seen;
With queen, knave, ten, you let the queen
precede;
In other cases you the lowest lead.
E’re you return your friend’s, your own suit
play;
But trumps you must return without delay.
When you return your partner’s lead, take
pains
To lead him hack the best your hand con
tains.
If you receive not more than three at first;
If you had more, you may return the worst,
But if you had the master-card, you’re
hound
In most cases to play it tho second round.
When you want a lead, ’tis seldom wrong
To lead up to the weak or through tho
strong.
For second hand your lowest should he
played,
Unless you mean (rump signal to he made;
Or if you’ve king and queen, or ace and
*ing,
then one of these will he the proper tiling.
Mind well the rules for trumps, you’l often
need them;
When you hold five ’tis always right to lead
them;
Or if the lead wont come in time for you,
Then signal to your partner so to do.
Watch also for your partner’s trump re
quest,
To watch, with less than four; play out
best.
To lead through honors turned up is bad
play,
Lnless you want the trump suit cleared
away.
When second hand a doubtful trick you see,
Don’t trump it if you hold more trumps
than three.
But having three or less, trump fearlessly.
When weak in trumps yourself, don’t force
your friend,
But always force the adverse strong trump
hand.
For sequences stern custom lias decreed
The lowest you must play if you don’t lead.
When you discard weak suits you ought to
choose,
For strong ones are toe valuable to loose.
W is ft.
CANNED ENERGY.
“I see a Frenchman has got a patent
for canned energy,” observed Mrs.
Spoopendyke, as she picked up a lot of
steel beads on a needle and began sew
ing them on medallions for a dress
trimming.
“Got a what?” interrogated Mr.
Spoopendyke, who was blackening his
boots.
“Yes, He says he can put strength
up in bundles and send it any where,
so they can run ships and things with
out Bteam. He sent ever so much over
to Scotland.”
“What circus bill have you been
reading now?” queried Spoopendyke,
glaring at his wife.
“It’s so,” she replied, “I saw it in
the Eayle. He does it like preserves
and it lasts ever so long, and it is just
as fresh and strong when they open it
as it was at first.”
“Who put it up? What are you
talking about?”
“A Frenchman. He gets a lot of
strength and fixes it with electricity,
and you can buy it anywhere. I’m
going to get some and take it. It’ll
be just as good as going into the coun
try, and maybe it’ll help my headaches.
I suppose the government will buy a
lot of it for tramps.”
“You gone crazy again?” demanded
Mr. Spoopendyke. “What d’ye mean
by putting strength in boxes? Think
energy is some kind ofdodgasted fish?
S’pose you can put main strength up
in bottles like a measly shrimp? If
you are going to read why don’t you
read straight?”
“Why, I did. He has some kind of
machine, and he makes energy so it
will last, and then he solders it up in
the house. lam going to have some
and do the washing.”
“Does it strength up the mind of a
dod gasted idiot?” blurted Mr. Spoo
pendyke. “Can it make a measly wo
man talk sense.”
“The paper don’t say; bat if it is all
they claim for it, it will he a great help
in house cleaning and moving the step
ladder around wliun you want to hang
pictures. And then it saves boiling
beef tea. Oh, you ought to read about
it. They say it is the greatest inven
tion of the age.”
“D’ye mean to tell me that they’re
selling muscle by the keg? Want me
to understand that some frog enter is
keeping industry on draught? Think
I’m an ass?”
“That’s what tho Eayle says,” re
joined Mrs. Spoopendyke, with a wo
man’s implicit reliance on anything in
print. “And they can make it in any
quantity cheap, so we can have all we
want. I wish you’d get some right
off, and we’ll try it on the Friday’s
sweeping.”
“Quit!” howled Mr. Spoopendyke.
“Stop making an idiot asylum of your
self. S’pose you can make me believe
housecleaning comes in jugs? P’raps
you want me to think that your dod
gasted stuff will pay the rent and run
the business! Energy by the pint!
Strength by the yard! Got that rip
sewed up in my pants?”
“Yes, dear murmured Mrs. Spoopen
dyke, meekly, and Spoopendyke, hav
ing arrayed himself, plunged out of the
house and made for the ferry boat.
“Hello, Spoopendyke!” saluted his
friend Specklewottle, “see this thing in
the paper about the Frenchman who is
boxing up energy?”
“Y'es, certainly,” replied Mr. Spoo
pendyke, “and I’ve been all the morn
ing trying to explain it to my wife,but
these women can’t understand such
things. How’s stocks?”
The Arkansaw Farmer.
Arkansaw Traveler.
A cattle-dealer stopped at the house
of an Arkansaw small farmer, and call
ed to a man who was drawing water
with an old-fashioned windlass that
cried out with an alarming sqreak at
every turn of the crank.
“Light!” shouted the drawer of wa
ter.
The man dismounted and approach
ed the well. “I am a cattle buyer,”
said the man, “and I’d like to talk
business to you.”
“Can’t talk business till I give these
steers as much water as they want.”
“How long will it take you?”
“Blamed if I know. They ain’t had
no water for two days, and the wells
seventy-five feet deep, and the bucket
leaks; now make the calc’lation.”
“llow long have you been drawing?”
“Sence sun up; and they’re jest as
rampant now as they was when I com
menced. I don’t ’low to do nothin’
else fer several days yit, fer by the
time one gits ’nougli, the other one is
spillin’ fer some.”
“Why don’t you drive them to the
creek?”
“Thar ain’t no creek in the neighbor
hood?”
“Why don’t you drive them to the
river?”
“Dos they’d rush in an’ drown their
selves?”
“Why don’t you drive them to the
pond?”
“They won’t drink that sorter wa
ter.”
“Don’t you want to sell them?”
“I would I had the ole woman’s con
sent, an’ I think she’s willin’.”
“She’s jes’ gittin ready to go over
to see one of the neighbors.”
“Y’ou’d better consult her before she
leaves.”
“Y r ou don’t know that woman like I
do. It ain’t safe to pester her when
Bhe’s gittin’ ready to go any whar.
We’ll liaftcr wait till she gits tliar,”
“How tar is it?"
“About nine miles.”
“I see you don’t care to talk busi
ness.”
“No, I ain’t so powerful keen.”
“If you’d pay more attention to bus
iness you’d live better.”
“Don’t wanter live no better’n I am.
Suits me.”
“Are you making any attempt to
educate your children?”
“Y r es, an’ they’re gittin’ along fine.
Jim hit a nigger with a rock yesterday,
Bob sassed a Jestice of the Peace, and
Buck ain’t afraid of the devil. That’s
a mighty good showin’, let me tell
you;” and the windlass screaked and
the steers walled their eyes.
“Are all of your children boys?”
“They might have been cf it hadn’t
been fur one thing.”
“What was that?”
“One of them was a gal.”
“Where is she now?”
“Married to the triflin’est feller I
ever seed.”
“Well, there’s no use fooling with
you; good-day.”
“Good day.” And he turned the
crank, muttering to himself: “Nosin’
’round here tryin’ to find out who’s got
whisky. A man haster be mighty
smart these days.”
Wong Fat on Wrestling.
San Franciso Wasp: “Say, Wong,
why do the Americans like to see wres
tling and fighting?”
“Oh, him heap flaid of him wifee.
Melican velley fond stay out latee.
Him wifee get heap mad—taka poka—
say, “Me gives him fit”—taka pitch
ice wata —say, “Me coolee him off.”
Bimeby Melican man come home, take
off him shoe, stealee upstay—say, Me
foolee ole woman.” Alleo samee him
wifee open him eye—say, “Ha! whe
you be so latee? Wha time you
thinkee him be?” Den Melican man
him say, “You beta lavee me long—
me velley bad man. Mesec figlitee allec
night—Patsee Hogee—Jack Hallnee.
Me heap sabe Sullivan—knockee you
out in a minit. Me sabee Muldoo—
givee you fall—hleakee you neck. You
let up; me velly tough man—muchee
wosee man Sullivan.” Den him wifee
hitee Melican poka, wetee him ice wa
ta, takee him wipe de flo. Melican
man yelle “Mudda! fi! fi! pleece! Nexa
day newspapasay heap muchee talkee
high life. Velly bad on Melican man;
him get divose, allee samee Jim Fay—
givee him wifee million dolla an
ketchee nudda gallee.”
September 14th, 1880.
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I cannot say too much for Hop Bitters.
Simon Bobbins.
Laundry Starch, Laundry Blue,
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A BEAUTIFUL PRAYER.
A few months ago, there died in
England a very noble Christian wo
man; her name was Frances Ridley
Havergal. She had endeared herself
to many thousands of people all over
the world by her beautiful songs and
other writings. Some of the hymns
you sing were written by her. She
lived very close to Christ and seemed
to do everything she did simply and
only for Christ.
In a little book, which she wrote,
she tells us about one of her mother’s
dying words to her when she was only
a child. She said:
“Fanny, dear, pray to God to pre
pare you for all that lio is preparing
for you.
The words were spoken very feebly,
but out of the depth of a great heart of
love, and as she went away they seem
ed to sound over and over again as if
she could never forget them.
“I wonder what he is preparing for
me?” she thought. “O, I do hope
lie is preparing one of the many man
sions for me! How I wish to know
whether he is! But I don’t think he
is preparing me for it, else I would not
feel naughty so often!”
These words from her mother’s
trembling lips never ceased to repeat
themselves in her thoughts. Nearly
twenty years afterward when she was
a busy woman she wrote:
“I have just been praying words
from my own mama’s lips when I was
a little girl:
“Prepare me for all that thou art
preparing for me.”
Then, thirty years afterwards, she
said that the little prayer her own
mother taught her—“O Lord, prepare
me for all thou art preparing for me”—
had been her life prayer. Again, only
a little while before she died, she said:
“The words mama taught me in
1848 have been a life prayer with me.
This preparing goes on: it is, as when,
gaining one horizon, another and an
other spreads before you.
Wo cannot tell what God is prepar
ing for us. It may be a deep sorrow.
He was preparing sorrow for this dear
child. In a little while her mother
lay very still and cold in death, and
the rest of her years she was mother
less.
Then, yon do not know what impor
tant duties he is preparing for you.
Perhaps you have a great mission to
fulfill. Sometimes ships are sent out
in war times, with sealed orders which
are not to be opened till they reach a
certain place. All of us go out into
life with sealed orders; until we come
to the place where the duty is to he
performed wc do not know what onr
mission is. You may havo to stand in
a very important place and do a great
work. ■ Ask Cod every day to prepare
you for the work he is preparing for
you.
Then there is another way to think
of this prayer. Jesus said he went to
his Father’s house to prepare mansions
for his disciples. Think of that every
day—God is preparing a mansion for
you. It is a very beautiful and holy
place. It is where Jesus himself is.
Surely we need a great deal of prepara
tion, before we shall be ready for that
place. Our prayer every day, ought
then, to be that God would prepare us
for the home that our Master is prepar
ing for us. Ask him to make us new
hearts, and help us to love Him and
love one another.
The New Cook.
Arkansaw Traveller.
“How does the new cook suit you?”
asked Colonel Mecklinson of his wife
after returning from a trip to the coun
try.
“I don’t think I shall like her. Day
before yesterday morning I had to get
up and make the fire for her. Yester
day morning I made the fire and help
ed her cook breakfast and this morning
I cooked breakfast alone.”
“Look here,” said the colonel, turn
ing to the cook, “what did I hire you
for?”
“It was fur style, sah, I reckons.
You people doan seem to drap on de
sitywation. Why, do las’ place whar
1 cooked, do lady fotched my breakfast
ter de bed fer me. I thinks dat I’se
been mighty ’commodatin’, myself.”
“What are you doing with my wife’s
gloves on?”
“Y’er wife can liab de gloves ef she
wants ’em. De las’ place whar I
worked I wore de lady’s clothes. I
thinks dat I’se been mighty ’commo
datin’, mysef, but I see dat we can’t
get along. I was warned agin gettin’
outen fashionable s’ciety, an’ now I
feel de blisterin, consequence.”
Snake Stories.
Hawkinsville News.
Editor Woods does net make all his
snake stories known through tho col
umns of his paper, but occasionally re
tails a few of his most choice hits of
snakeology to friends and listeners on
the streets by “word of mouth.” He
let himself out the other evening, and
among the many thrilling narratives re
lated, was the following:
“Once upon a time,” said Editor
Woods, “two good-size snakes met,
and, being both hungry and mad, seized
each other by the extreme end of the
tail and began swallowing. And, in a
manner calculated to remind one of the
fights of the Kilkenny cats, the snakes
swallowed and swallowed until both
finally disappeared, leaving nothing
behind as a reminder of the awlul com
bat hut a small greased spot.”
The meeting then adjourned.
LITTLE LAUGIIS.
“Holy smoke!” yelled the policeman,
when he saw that a church was about
to blaze. —Buffalo News.
A girl has been horn out west with
three tongues. God Lord! If this
should get to be a fashion.— Blizzard.
The preachers who write and commit
their sermons are the ones who practice
what they'preach.- Williamsport Grit.
Is the composer of “The Maiden’s
Prayer” living ?— Subscriber. No,
put up your shot gun. He’s dead.—
Philadelphia News.
Anew song is entitled “Brother’s
Hair was Cut by Mother.” If it’s
only “cut short it’s all right.—Elevat
ed liailway Journal.
Many people who changed their
places of residence on the first of the
month have already discovered that
they May day mistake, —Lowell Cou
rier.
A St. Louis paper has an article
showing “How to cut your throat.”
That is something which every St.
Louis man should know. Boston
Post.
Mr. William Doodle—“ Yes, Miss
Frost, I always wear gloves at night;
they make one’s hand so soft.” Miss
Frost—“Ah! and do you sleep with
you hat on?”— New York Life.
Yorkel (to his son at a concert, dur
ing the performance of a duet:) “D’ye
see Tom, now it’s getting late they aro
singing two at a time so as to get done
sooner. ’’ — Exchange.
“I don’t like to have my husband
chew tobacco,” remarked a young mar
ried lady, “but 1 put up with it, for
the tin foil is just too ha'ndy for any
thing in doing up my front crimps.—
Somerville Journal.
Tho most terribly disappointed per
son we have seen during the present
century was the young lady who took
sixteen pieces of music to a friend’s
house, and who was not asked to sing
during tho whole evening. —Harlem
Times.
Although the foot passenger toll
over the Brooklyn bridge is hut one
cent, yet really every foot passenger is
taxed three cents—the gate-cent, the
as-cent and the de-cent. Tho ferry
boats will not be idle. —New Bruns
wick Fredonian.
The editor of a village paper near
the city wrote of a young gentleman
who sang in the choir, that he was
amoqg the best of their amateur sin
gers, and he was horrified to see it ap
pear in his paper, “one of the best of
our amateur sluggers.” lie has gone
fishing until it blows over.—Cincin
nati Saturday Night.
A printer’s towel fell out of a third
story window in a New Jersey town
the other day, and cracked a paving
stone. The crash was heard twe blocks
away, and a little hoy ran homo with
white lips and trembling limbs, to tell
his mother that he saw “a negro man
tumble off the roof and explode his
head.”— Ex.
Reporters labor under a great many
disadvantages. Some people never say
a word to tliem’about occurrences, in
which they were the chief actors,
which if properly reported, would make
excellent items. For example, in case
of a nitro-glycerine explosion the par
ties on the spot never say a word to
She reporter about it.— Blizzard.
An Irishman recently stopped at a
hotel where pretty high bills were char
ged. In the morning the landlord
made out the amount of damages and
presented it to Pat. After he had
glanced it over the latter looked the
landlord in the face and exclaimed,
“You put me in mind of a snipe.”
“Why?” asked the landlord.
“Because ye’re pretty nigh all bill.
—Carl Pretzel's Weekly.
“Well, my dear, what did you see
in New York?” said a wife to her hus
band on his return from a trip to the
metropolis. “0 everything worth see
ing,” he replied; “I heard Taltuage
preach, wont up to the Central Park,
took in the Brooklyn bridge, spent an
evening at the Young Men’s Christian
Association, and—and—in short had a
very quiet, pleasant time.” “You saw
Jumbo, of course?” “0 yes, I saw
Jumbo.” “I thought as much,” said
the lady. “The moment you came in
to the house I was convinced that you
had seen the elephant.” —Rochester
Post-Express.
A Georgia Act.
A traveler relates the following of a
Georgia man: “Lawyers are mean
cusses!” he exclaimed, with bitter
ness. “I’d drown the whole bilin’ of
them in Yuba if I had my way. Do
you know what happened to them in
Georgia, where I come from? Well,
someone introduced a bill into the
Legislature to tax all jackasses $lO a
year. One of our legislators moved
an amendment. He wished the law
yers and doctors to he put in the same
act. Our legislators was in high spirits
that day and wanted a little mischief.
So, when the amendment was put, they
carried it and passed the bill. They
havo tried to rub it out since, but they
can’t do it; we’ve got it on our book.
Just as sure a3 I’m driving you down
to the Yuba, the act stands good in old
Georgia—all jackasses, doctors and
lawyers have to pay up $lO h year.
It’s hefty on lawyers, hut it is so!”
The health and beauty of children
can be restored by giving them Shri
ner’s Indian Vermifuge to kill the
worms that darken their complexion.
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