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Show TAUCKT,;jKEB TO PRINCS. Up among the orange groves of Pomona Po-mona county, in southern California, lives a man who in his day was counted the most skillful poker player who ever "cashed in a chip." It was lie who taught the principles of poker to the Prince of Wales, and in 1870, when Gen. Phil. Sheridan was in Paris, he was asked to show no less an aspirant than the Emperor Napoleon Napo-leon III. the mysteries of the great American game. Sixty-three years ago George Albro was born in Philadelphia. When a boy he went to Washington as a page in the United States senate. At the national capital he saw the high rollers roll-ers of congress gathered about the card tables and there he picked up his .-.. ...,ut,a ul lue game. Afterwards After-wards he developed into a professional gambler, and for years he was known in all the large cities of the country as a man for whom "the only lirnit was the ceiling." Fortunately for himself him-self Albro had a devoted sister who from time to time persuaded him to invest a portion of his winnings in real estate, and, therefore, he now finds himself with enough money to live on during, the remainder of his life It - wm GEORGE ALBRO. has been several years since he has gambled, and at present he refuses to play even a game of whist The sight of a card, he declares, is repulsive to him. , |