Show played poker in a poorhouse there has been a pronounced stand taken against gambling in somo como quarters tl rs at portsmouth recently the fire nud and police departments have hare been ordered to abandon card playing and a full grown poker game has bas been broken up at the infirmary it appears that flint several of tho the inmates receive small email pensions and others earn carn a trifle occasionally for tobacco money by outside work they havo have lately been losing most of it to some of their follow unfortunates unfortunate who oro are skilled in the ma manipulation tion of tho the cards they used crackers and grains of coffee as chips and played in the basement of the building A poker game iu in a poorhouse might bo be considered sufficiently unusual to bo be worth permitting to proceed as a curiosity but superintendent mershon thought not arid and placed tho the participants under discipline columbus dispatch |