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Show Records of Wagers, netting is neither so general nor bo promiscuous as It was ICO years ago, when books for recording wagers were always kept on tho tables in the much frequented coffee houses of London. Soma of these hooks uro still to bo found among collections of 'antiques, and they make Interesting rending. All manner of bets nro entered there, on marrlagcR, births nnd deaths, on tho duration of a ministry, on tho length of tho lives of prominent personages, per-sonages, on the possibility of earthquakes, earth-quakes, and even on huntings. |