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Show PLAYED CARDS IN STREETS Queer Wager in Paris Results in Arrest Ar-rest of Principals. PARIS, Sept. 3. On a laOQUSrSd table ornamented with gold and old Ivory and lighted by a costly oid bronze lamp, four gentlemen began to play a game of Whist at the corner of the Rue Montemartro. seated on cane chairs. A large crowd gathered and tho police moved tho play-ih play-ih on, but they resumed their game fur- ther on, At last thev were arrested, when they explained that their apparently strange behavior was tho result of a wag r that they would play card3 all night In the Street The stakes amounted to over laooo. |