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Show QUECfl DAROMETCns". llllllnril llnll nml C'iiki II"' Hilrcitfiil t IttvnU of 1-i-t Cnrti. "I can nlways toll when it Is going to rnln half n dny ahead nt any clungo In (air weather," aUl (luorgo Hloon to n No.t York Bun loan a ho vas knooUtng nrnuni) , bUllanl b.UH In tho Columbia rooms juat after tlio recent deluge. "How's tluil I ' nsUcd a b) standor, getting IntDretted OIiclU)-. "Why, tlioro Isn't a better bnrometcr In exittenco than an Ivory ball or n good lillltanl cue," tho billiard expert replied ; "they nro bettor than a favorite corn." I "How U'yo tell I" "A ball nlwnvs rolls Blow nnd with difficulty diffi-culty over the clolli when it Is going to rain Ivory U so sensiUvo lo ohnnges of tompcr.iture, iiarllutiUrly from dry to molit, that iho effect i foil nliacwt nUiutaneou. ly Tho cue will get cranky, too, .when there U going to bo u otmngo, long boforo Uie dainpneiM Is psreeptlblo in any olhor way Another jieciillarity of tho Ivory 1 (flobos Is their tundency to boooinO egg-shap(l. egg-shap(l. They contract nt what uio called thotopnud bottom poles and swell out at the tides, so Hint )0U might ns well play 1 with potatoos It jou do not watch their , idlooyncroilos. They nro worso than old men in their susceptibility to draught. A draught will craclc tho Ivory and uiako It chip oil "iuIeTt a a wink, and, like old folks, 1 you can never yet thu sphere iccllmated to these draughts Just taho a Millard ball and study it i behavior and .vou can lient the , clerk of tbo woHthei- prophesying. You can liet on vour own jiropnoey evory tlnie," |