Show I INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CARDS t According to hj tory cards were T Invented in invented In In- vented for tor tho the amusement of or an Insane kin king but to follow the writers on the history history history his his- tory of playing cards in their various vailous at atI attempts at- at I t tempts to prove the extreme antiquity of cards card would on only I prove pro a 0 frame Ramo of chance I It matters little lItt whether Europe received cards from India or China It will suffice suf suf- Illco fice to know that cards are arc first mentioned I In European history In the annals annal of l Pro In the year ear 1361 1261 and from that date to th the present man has been heen content content content con con- tent to stake stale not only money mone but hut happiness happi happl- ne ness 8 and standing on the chance chanc deal of ofa ofa a a a. pack of cards And this though all wisdom wis wis- dom human and divine exclaims against the waste wast though moralists have besought be- be sought though satirist ts have ridiculed I him though mathematicians have o demonstrated demonstrated demon demon- i that In the long run he must lose lone Even en the learned pig that suburban mir mir- Icle ide which tells people their fortunes by the cards has never learned beamed the value of ofa a trump These sars Sams tho tue heroine In Inthe Inthe inthe the n s- s Opera pointing to the highwayman's pistols are the tho tools of I men of honor but hut cards carls are arc only lit Ut for forI I cow cowardly cheats who prey upon their friends In ancient days dars the they not only but cheated Nero ero was the most mOlt infatuated gambler of his ageS age the tho Roman soldiers drew dress lots for the this vesture venture of our savior sA the convulsions of or nature which o overwhelmed Pompeii surprised a party part of gamblers at the table where they were discovered 2000 years nar ward afterward with the till car cards s clenched in their hands hand One who has hal given shen tho the stud study of oC the tho history history his his- tor tory of of car cards s much attention states that it Is not true that cards were Invented to amuse Charles VIII of France when hen he lie lost t his re reason on on account of a severe levere sunstroke This was In 1393 and he lie claims that cards were wre Invented many years ears before this thiis An edict prohibiting the use uS of cards was published by John I. I of or 1387 and ani 1461 the English parliament forbade their Importation The pack consisted at various times tunes of thirty thirty- six cards ort forty among the Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans who omitted the tho ace and the Spaniards who ho had no ten spots and finally two fifty cards Cards were ere long Jong known n as the Book Bool of or th the four I kings kings' ln s The They were vere al also o called quartes having reference to the tha four tour suits and from this it is supposed cam came the word cards InI in I- I In English n lIsh Cards were first brought to America b by the Spanish discoverers There is It- Itan an old legend leend that Columbus on the hl bight ht before he made the land kept himself himself him him- self awake b by gaming and Herera re rebates relates relates re- re lates bates that when hen Montezuma was as made prisoner oner by Cortez In 1519 he took great pleasure In seeing the Spanish soldiers pIa play at cards In the tho fifteenth century gambling spread pread over Europe with Ith frightful rapidity en even the clergy not being exempt from rom the vice St. St Bernardino preached with such power to the Bolognese In 1125 1 that his hearers made a fire In th the public place and burned their cards From this event ent the sun card got It Its name the can card being painted at nt that time to bo be used a aa as asa a R religious offering In In 1503 1509 Thomas Thoma Murner a Franciscan friar taking ad ad- vantage of the universal al love of cards published an exposition of or lo logic lc In th the I shape shape- of a pack of or cards Those lo logic lc cards had such success that In 1518 h ho published an Introduction to the evil law lawIn lawin lawin in the same form In Baptist Pendleton Pen Pen- published Card 1 In which he aimed to convey a thorough knowledge of grammar by the tho use of a apack apack pack of cards and a kc key to the puzzle These were followed at Intervals by gee ger co- co graphic and heraldic cards and presently present the earn card system had quite n a vogue osue for lor In 1692 there were published cards displaying the iniquities of all nil th the popish plots against the security of Eng Eng- land hand historical rhetorical and satirical cards In great variety varlet and finally to ca cathe cap the climax there was wan as Invented and published published pub pub- the game o of caring caning at the table accurately and 2nd ea easily Il taught In a n. pack o or of t two o cards card The Chinese who ho ar are reckless gamblers amblers have a lar large e number of or cards card of or different kinds The Tho general name of the cards 1 In China is paper paper and tickets and th the lie kinds mo most t commonly used arc called wan cho pac a thousand times time ten thousand cards card The cards card arc nearly all circular and each can card represents some historical or religious event Tho The s systematic pursuit of cards as a profession In iii nearly e c every country under unde the sun has Increased yearly carlY and gain gam nm- nm hung Is the prime amusement from I king kingto to pauper Nothing Is to too toe trivial trl or ot die die- gusting to bet on In cards there Is little chance In a a. professional game for tor fal fair play The deadly odds orId lIe are always alas with tho tIm professional The lamb has little sh show I know a a. man who cheats at cards sail said 1 a young joung man to another I 1 do 10 o no not like to expose him hini what shall I do Back him back hack him was the reply When hen Lord Theodore Hook died he was wa known as th the tho greatest cheat at cards card of his day clay and it was wa proposed ed for or hi hit his epitaph H Hero ro lies En England's premier premie baron patiently awaiting the thc last las I trump Joe Joo P Cowell In his Recollections o otho of I tho the Stage tells a story characteristic of the days das no now passed away aay While on a Mississippi river r steamer ste ho was sitting near a a. watching a game ame of poker Another r onlooker who ma made c it hl his bush JH hess nes SH to SP spy out the trumps in one players player s shand hand and telegraph the tho Information to hl his opponent b by laying the samo same number o ot of fingers carelessly on tho the table Of course oursa ono one lost and tho the other gained steadily fo foa for lor lora fora a considerable time until at a deal tho the loser received cd ono one trump Tho The fact was duly duh signaled h by tho the forefinger laid on the tabe which the tho losing gentleman ver very cry coolly but bul adroitly cut oft oct with Ith a heavy Knife Hello Heno stranger what are arc you OU about You Tou have cut off ort one of or my 01 lingers fingers cried crice the dismembered manI manI man I 1 know It it said tho the coolly and if Id I'd had more trumps you'd oud have o had less fingers |