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Show Phenomenal Luck at Whist. An ovent which has been vouched for by witnesses and which wns duly recorded ln whist annnls was the phenomenal phe-nomenal hand ot thirteen trumps. It occurred ln a game at tho United Service Ser-vice 'club ln Calcutta In 1888, tho plnyora being a Judge and three physicians. phy-sicians. The pack had been perfectly shuffled and cut. It has been calculated calcu-lated that ln a gamo of whist ovory ono holds ono of 635,013,559,600 possible possi-ble hands, and Mr. Babbago reckoned that If a million men were to deal cards day and night nt tho rato of ono deal por mlnuto for a hundred million years they would not exhaust ono hundred hun-dred thousandth part of tho possible variations of tho cards. New York Herald. |