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Show Phenomenal Luck at Whist, An event which has been vouched for by witnesses and which waa duly recorded In whist annala was the phenomenal phe-nomenal hand of thirteen trumps. It occurred in a game at the United Service Ser-vice club In Calcutta In 1888, the playors being a Judge and three physicians. phy-sicians. The pack had been perfectly shuffled and cut. It has bean calculated calcu-lated that In a gnme of whist every one holds one of Mri.on.OM.OuO possible possi-ble hands, and Mr. Ilahbage reckoned that If a million men were to deal cards day and night at the rate of one deal per minute fur a hundred million years they w ould not oxhaust one hundred hun-dred thousandth part of tho poaslble variations of tho cards. Now York Herald. |