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Show Oladstone's Souvenir. Gladstone's biography tolls of a royal party at Windsor In Queen Victoria's Vic-toria's rolgn which, aftor dining, Instantly In-stantly took to cards. Tho sums Involved In-volved were not, however, enormous. "I fouml," writes Oladstono, for once a gambler, "I had won two shillings twopence, at the end of which olght ponce wns paid mo by tho prince. 1 mean to keep tho twoponny pleco (the sixpence I cannot Identify) accordingly." according-ly." This unique souvenir of his gambling prowess ono would scarcely expect to be prized by a serious statesman. |