Show THE WAY OF THE WORLD OR philosophy OF FARO in a work recently published entitled notes on europe by S reynolds we find related the following trick of an accomplished gambler it might pass for a sitting in th the drawing room of my hotel after tea count cenobio Ren obio humorously related to me the following incident which occurred some time ago and which produced a profound sensation and effect A short thin man whom nobody knew but by sight suddenly became a constant attendant at the gambling tables this mm man during a whole fortnight continued in the tho most extraordinary manner to win enormous sums at the faro banks as well as the surrounding betters he wore spectacles and appeared so short sighted that lie he was always obliged to touch the he counter with his nose before lie he could distinguish the card such was his luck that whatever card lie he packed was sure to win on the last night of his appearance in spa one of the gamesters ga a young halfin half in irishman had lost a very heavy sum his temper was quite gone and he aerated his lucky opponent in a style that might inight have edified the most abusive in in billingsgate 1113 D n you you old dog cried lie he and more particularly d n your spectacles and catching them from him he put them on his face at first he could distinguish nothing but approaching approach inn ino the cards he perceived that the spectacles were immediately excited and he turned to demand an explanation of the wearer but he had gone an explanation then commenced and the cause of this wonderful continuity of his luck lack was speedily discovered the cards in spa are not bought of shopkeepers shop keepers us in england but hut every eve autumn the proprietors of gaming tables repair to the grand Leip leipzig zin r and there purchase their stock for the year thither the spectacle gentleman had bad also hied not as a buyer but as a seller of cards and at such a reduced rate and of such an excellent quality that all the purchasers resorted to him spa and several other towns were literally lite literally rall rali stocked with his liis cards on the back of eack each of these concealed among among the ornaments and so small as to be imperceptible bie ble to the unassisted eye was its number with a particular variation to denote suit then the rogue came to spa disguised with blackened hair and spectacles mand Land and as a gentleman gambler would have broken all the banks in spa but for the fury of the enraged ared ayed irishman however as it was he de camped with several thousand pounds |