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THEANACONDA STANDARD: SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1890.
(tjeerlandin ^JTn-cc Minutes.
AGraphic Description of Transcontinental Travel in
Nearluture.
the
a^sju; Pneumatic rnilmail b^tw^M^^I* tin- ^iiy ami San I'ranrisco wits^formally trsttil .vtsiertlay after^^noon, ami tins im^rinnif u will Ih^ opened^for Hh MMssssMssstjMI ^f Hsl P^MiSi says^HwMMrTerii IHtaM s]Mlhs*j from a^li.v|i..tin ti. al adMoa M im Mm dated
Jul)I'.', If ^^ Tlifllrtit trip with pas-^sengcr. ill the ear was mailt' in a few see-^onda more than three minutes, ami the^nciilir trips tliiTiaft- r were iiiiule in^prvt im ly three niiinili*J each. The nu n^who hail charge of tin- poihIithih nut-^chinery Ml a trilh' nervous during the^first trip, ami consripiriitly a few sec-^oniU were lo^t. The car hud Itceil wilt^through the tulft^ a iltnt'ii linn's early in^the day. hut thru no one's life ilepeiuleil^upon the success of llie trial. When^there were a th n il |tc^plc in the rnr the^owners ami operators of the roail appre-^eiated that any -ort of a failure on the^trial trip would work them irreparable in^^jur)', and Sii|^erinteiiileiit Modern said^after it wan over that lie believed he grew^a year older during the three minutes and^^even seconds whieh the ear occupied in^^nuking the Ilrst trip.
Allof tins gigantic inaeliinery, whieh^moves a ear weighing several tons nearly^3,0X1)mile* in three minute*, is eoiitrollcd^by one man, although there are.of course,^several hundred men who] take care^of the various parts of the^|M^werful electric engines whieh force^tilt* air into the tube. This one man sits^in a room entirely a| art from any kind of^distraction. There is ulis.iliilcly nothing^in the MOM i xeepl I lie apparatus with^whieh lie works the road and the ^ hair in^whieh lie sits. It would have startled our^ancestors if they eoiild have known that^in this year of our Lord sueh an enormous^amount of power emild Is' produced from^me ululating a lever whieh is no larger^than an old lime telegraph key. Ilcsitlca^this key then' i- a dial wlueli shows the^move in. in of the Mr, M that the o;,. i.ilor^knows to within half it mile where it la^during the entire joiirm ).
Heis enmpl' li ly shut oil^ from the out-^^Ml world, the room In mg arranged so^that not a sound of any sort reaches him^While I.' Is oil tlulv. I he door ill ills loom^leads toa hall.ami at the end of I lie hall is
anotherdoor before which ^ wsfihstun is
alwayson gn.nil. When the ear is ready^to go on its journey a MMkll hell rings in^the risini, and tins s k'nal is answered by^the operator. Then the answering signal^cm. - hack to show that the first was not^a false alarm, ami wilhui less tune than^It takes to It'll it. thec.tr in .11 oil its long^journey long only in the liumlier of in IIIaj^traveled, Im-c.iiisc three minutes cannot^l.e considered a long tunc, even in this^exceedingly swift age.
Inthe car yesterday wi re a dozen^ncwspaiier men. H. Swilt the president of^the roail, and Mr. Modern, the stipcrin-^It'liilclit. 1 he Malum at this ,ii.l of Um^road has ulie.cly l.erii dMOTibod ill the^IVttWMh It is BaOfa like the drawing room^of a private house than the dusty and foul-^sue Ilmg sl.tlh.Ms which our ancestors^were obliged to use. Ingoing from the^wailing room to tin ear one descemU an^easy flight ot stairs, richly carpeted, and^enter- lie' i n from it door III the end,^The ear is perfectly round, iMl feet long,^with a row of seals tin each side, thus^allowing the space of M inches for^each person. The seals are siimpt'iously^upholstered with a head (Ml ami a fool
wool.
Win n the M DM ali.n e mentioned
werein tile car the door was closed noise^^lessly. A few seconds aflerward the vi^^brating of the gn at engines could lie^heard [ndisiiui tly a- lie ^ galheretl power^enough to shoot the car thnuigii the tuli ^^at the rate of l^^ Hides a set olid for 1st)^consecutive MCOttda. Mr. Swift sat oil^one side of the car with three reporters mi^each mile of him, and Miperiulelideiit^Mislern sat on the ether side. Hanked in^tin same w.ii In ilni e new-I'.iper lien on^eatdi sitle of him. Mr. Swifl tisik out his^watch. The second baud indicated that^It lacked only II seconds of I.' o'clock.
Westart precisely at I'J.^ be remarked,^and iM'fore the words MM fairly out of^bis motilli a klMMfl mils., w as heard, ami
befoleuekllt'W It We Well'oil oil olirlollg^jollllley.
Itwould take a long time to describe^the sensations of the licit three minutes.^After the his I little jerk, which indicated^that the car had MM starli tl. the only^Way III which those inside could tell that^it was in motion was thai (here was a^tendency to make them h all back toward^the rear cud of the car. This was ex^^plained by the fael that as the car gained^iiuum mum very rapidly, the tendency tie-^m i ihed was, of course, only natural. It^nil passed away, however, within L'Jor^seconds, mid then not a sound was heard^ext ern the licking of the watches. Mr.^Swill hail his watch III his hand, and lie^never turned his i yek away from it until^the journey w as at an end. I hi / rifinnr^^nan sat m XI I' bun and looked at the^watch also. I'he band sle wed that 40^seconds had elapsed since the car was^started.
We'repast Chicago,^ iiiultt red Mr.^Swift.
Within the next V seconds the reporter^observed that the car was lighted by day^^light, and mil by any ariillnal meant. At^about the place w hero the head of a por^^tion of ordinary site would conic while^hitting in the scat there was ,,n MjMMV^ingly line and very thick plat -glass win^^dow. I'he sunlight streamed into this^window, hut up hi liHikiug out everything^vet Hud toh^ In u jumble. 11'rasioually^one could catch Maritt of a landscape, but^it was so bMting that it could not !^^ aeeti^tliatiiielly. This inystery was explained^later.
Atevery mile in the MM there i^^a line^plate-glass window, twt nly feet long. The^ear passes through the tube at such a^rapitl rate that the spaces between the^windows, alihough m arly a mile wide,^^re not noticeable. I his can lie readily^iimlcrsliHi.l by making a lillle menial cal^^culation. The t ar travels at Hie rate of^sixteen inilck a MMML Thus it will he^Melt tliat in one second the car pusses^alxloenof these twenly-foot windows, anil^^a the windows on the opposite sides of^the tills- are placed allt riiat. ly it iscasily^Keen that ihe car |s freshly supplied w ith^light tlnrl.v-two tnnea m every second.^This mt ana that there is light in the car
I.radicallyall the Km uiherwise you^oae hight i f the spin es for the same^reason mat you cannot st-e the spokes in^it wag in w hoi 1 w h. a the wagon is mov^^ing rapidly.
Hutto resume. Mr. Sw ill was closely^^canning the ban Is of his watch and at^one IlllllUle |Klsl 1. ii'elock he llllllterill
again:
Weare not far from the Mississippi^ririr.
Thebands of t!ie wah h aeelued to^creep during tin-next inuiulc, at the ex^^piration of winch Mr, Swift again re^^marked that we w^ r. near the llocky^liioiiniains.
Nowcame the critical moment. It was^well mideratiKsl b) u, .s, in the car that
thecrucial lesl v i ime w hen the ear
waato lie alop|s d. Would the ear go out^of the end of the tu'-i and laud u- in S,,u^l'raueiaco buy '.' iji Would a t,nia-h ilaelf
againstthe ohatruction* nt the end of the^oda ami leave our mangleil lKMtiea to be^taken out by workmen MMMj days after^the accident t^.t.^i^^-^^^^^!. while a gaping^crowtl atiHsl around and watched the^o|ieration'.' These ami n thousand other^thoughta llashetl through the writer'a inintl^in an instant. The reporter derived a lit^^tle grim aatiafaction from the last words^of the man aging editor, who by way of^consolation hud aaitl to the reporter when^he irnve bin the assignment :
Now,H -, you may come out of this^thing alive'
TheYn'miii does not allow the uau of^Ihe word ^very^ except on ran* occa^^sions, but the reporter think* that he ia^justified in saying on this occasion that in^the mi aniline the car waa approaching^:ts destination very rattitlly. Tile expres^^sions on the faces of those in the ear dur^^ing the last twenty seconds of the journey^cannot he dfacrihetl by either pen or^tongue. The ear was gradually losing
pied.Tm seconds MOT and what'.'^I'ive seconds! Time is up, but still no^MOM| ftt expect the crash, but still the^watch ticks oil the seconds. One! Two!^Three! lour! I'ive!
Weare stopping!^ aluio-l shouts Mr.^Swift, and in two seconds more the cur^comes to a standstill. In less than two^seeonds more the door is thrown open,^ami ihe officer* of the road and a score of^newspaper men rush in to congratulate^us. The journey is safely over, and the^greatest leat of the age has been accoin-^plishcd.
Mainwealthy business and professional^men of this city MM already Ihiught^hollies ill California. They will come to^town every morning and return home at^night. The difference of three houra in^lime between this city and San Francisco^makes it a little inconvenient for them,^because they have to arise aid a. in. in^unit r to reach their offices by 10 o'clock.^I In the other hand, they ipnt their olliees^at 5 p. m. and arrive home about UD, San^I'laiicisco time. So they have plenty of^linie to take a tlrire in the uflernnmi and^also to secure u little extra sleep before^the regular bedtime. The | .resident of the^road nays now that the project has proved^such nil unei|iiiviH'al success, it is only a^niaiter of a slmrt time when branch roads^w ill Im' limit between all the piiucipal^cities in the union,
FORTUNE IN A JtWfcL CASE.
Nearly^;:^^.ihi^^ Wmili id MMaH anil^I'eitrU In a Petulant.
1'ioinIhe ( liirai.il Inter Ocean.
Therewas a sudden Hash of light in the^upper w indows of a State street building^yesterday afternoon whieh had nothing^to do with the afternoon sun. It appeared^just about the time a clear-eyed little man^w ho was sitting in the oltice of a famous^diamond brokerage-house pulled out of^Ins trousers pocket an oblong plush ruse^which contained fcm, UUO worth of jewels in^the space of an inch and a half aipiare.
Thisi^ the finest nml moat expensive^jewel set that has been seen in ^ hn ago^for years. It ia uniipie, too. It is ar^^ranged as a pendant, the ground of which^is platinum and gold. In this are set^about fifty small diamonds anil aix large^otiea alsmt an immense clntcolate-colnred^|M'arI of spherical shu|m', lictiealh whieh^hangs another chocolate-colored pearl of^smaller sire and formed like a |^ear. The^whole piece ia out1 of dazzling beauty, and^w hen it caught the sun's rays through^the window it scattered them altout^Ihe room in the most bewildering colors.
^^ne feature about thin,^ said tile clear-^eyed man, fondling the piece, ^is the^large sum we had to expend to get suit^^able diamonds to set about these pearls.^While pearls of this sue and shape are^rare enough, Inn it is seldom that dark^pearls like these can Is- secured. These^two weigh UO grains together and they^an* worth over Jl.'i.nM. With poorer dia^^monds the beauty of ihe piece might give^been lost, because the pearls would have^color to tlie stones. These are pure tlia-^inoiuls. The six of them nro nbout^eighteen carats three apiece and are^worth close to ItOyOOO W'e might have^used stones like these,^ and hero the d a-^inotid man drew out a leather pockeibook^llllt d with little papers such as homeo^^pathic tiiH'tors carry their drug* in. The^papers were full of diamond'- diamonds^thai looked like frost and diamonds like^lh m the miiistrel man wore in old times^w In n the minstrel man was in his glory.
Wemight,^ said the broker, ^have^used these, but they wouldn't do. We^m i di d something liner, and we have it^here. The pearls came from Spain,w in re^they were originally part of aeon net.^They were together with what you might^call rubbish. The old lapidaries w ere not^as artistic is those of this day. ami very^often in a historical piece we tiuil magnifi^^cent jewels gioiiped with paltry stones.^I'he pearls 1 have here are the result of^the breaking up of one of these pieces,^and that is ,\|w ays the opportunity of the^diamond buyer. It would be almost im^^possible to get at any price the jewels now^in the possession of the Astor family in^Sew ^ork. Hut some day these pieces^will be broken up and sold, and some fa^^mous diamonds w ill return to the MM^^k.i.
Thebroker said the sale of diamond*^wa- increasing m Chicago. Only a short^tune ago two stones Were disposed of at^110,000apiece to two wealthy men.
MAHHIAGEIN JAPAN.
AfterThirty.lit* failures a Native Wr.U^Ills Thirty-^lxlh Mi*^If wc arc to believe the press of Japan,^writes James I'ayn, their view of matri^^monial happiness is far in ire MMMM^than that enterlaineil at home. ^The^principle underlying their whole marital^lelatii n is that the iilft'flioti 1 luit makes^marriage happy is not the love which^precedes union, but the respect, esteem^and sense of mutual helpfulness that^grows up afterward.^ This is an admi^^rable truth, though it has been ignored by^all the | a Is and almost all the novelists^of I urope. It h.,-. indeed, been observed^of lift -long friendship that it is hard that^it should lie superseded, ami have, so to^MM ak, ^it's noae put out of joint^ by a^i hit of a girl, whom a man has only^known for a week; but love is so vehe^^ment a passion that (for a tunc, at h asti^it sweeps all Is'tore it, anil there is untie^mg for pisir friendship hut to get out of^the way.
Kmto compare this sudden flood, as we^do, ami even give u th,, prc-ciumcurc,^w ith the deep, strong current of married^love, with all n^ common interests and^mi morn s of aim and shade, la ludicrously^fa lac, 'I hat we sometimes hang our-^aelvea In cause we r uin it marry our first^l..ve ia nothing to the pur|s^e, for we^' ^ Mainly an no in |sisitioii toi stimat. In r^value; we know nothing about her.^^iIm Ime l^ like all other lavra,
Ahtll. pam. a hllle shiver,^A raw 'in! |m a I.in ef cloven.^Ami 'tly not ^ti upon file river.
I-u reasonable that the loss of this^however attractive, stranger should l^e^weighed in the same balance with that^of the wife who has proved herself what,^in the former case, we hare only hotted^for, and who ha* beared our sorrows
anddoubled our joys^ Ye* it it^the lover balked of Ins nilatrea* upon^whom all the sentiment of fiction ia lav^^ished ; it has not a word of pity for the^widower, though it tiiakea plenty of fun^of him if he marries again, tine can only^aupiNise that the distortion of the mirror^of life urisea from the fart that it ia^chiefly young people who read novels^and that those children of Mammon, the^novelists, ap|ieal to the sympathies of^their I^ -i client*.
InJapan twhere there nre no serialsi^people have more common sense. Of^one Japanese, indeed, we read thai in his^efforts to secure a tried and faithful part^^ner, ^whose resftert, esteem, etc., should^grow up ufterwanl,^ he has murrled no^lesa than :ia chits of girls, all of whom^hare disappointed expectation, and still^in hopes, he has just been united to hi*^itoth bride.
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SHEKNEW HIM.
How site Hut Kven With th* Hagga^family.
PlMJthe MHM UM 1'ren*.
Now,madam,^ said attorney for the^defendant to a little, wiry, black-eyod,^fidgety woman who hud been summoned^as a witness in a breach of the peace case,^^you will please give in your testimony in^as few words as possible. You know the^defendent V
Knowv lio .'
I he tlefenilent^Mr. Joshua Hagg'.^'^^ losh II igg' I gu. I do know nun.^and I km.vved his daddy afore him, and 1^d m't know nothing to the credit of either^of 'em, and I don't think -
Wedon't want to know what you^think, madam. He iac - ly 'yes' or 'no' to^my tpiestion.^^^W hat tpiestion'.'^^^Itoyou know Mr. Joshua Hagg'.^'^^Don't I know'im, though'.' Well. I^should smile! You ask Josh Hagg if he^know* me. Ask him if he know*^anything 'Isutt tryin' to cheat a poor wid-^der like me out of a --year-old steer. Ask
himIf^
Madam.I
Ask linn whose land he got discord of^wisik off last spring, and why he hauled^it in the night. Ask hiswife, Itetsey Hagg,^it -I,,, knows anything alsuit hlippin' into^a neighbor's paster lot and milking three^cows on the sly. Ask
.Seehere, madam
AskJosh Hagg about that uncle of his^that died m the penitentiary out West.^Ask him tjMMl lettin' Ins pore old mother^die in the pore house. Ask, Hetsey Hagg^about putting a big brick in a lot of but^^ter she sold last fall
Madnin,I tell you^-
|seeif Josh Hagg know - any thing about^feeding ten head ot cuttle all the sail they^woulde.it and then letting them swill^down all the water they could hold just^'fore he dnv them into town and sold 'cm.^See what he's got to say to tliat!
Thathas nothing to do with the case.^I waul you to
Thenthere was an old Iirael Hagg,^own uncle to Josh, got riil of his native^town on u rail 'tween two days, and llclsy^liagg's own brother got ketched in a^neighbor's hen house at midnight. Ask^Josh
Madam,what do you know about this
Case7
Idon't know the first lirin' thing 'bout^it, but I'll lu't Josh Hagg is guilty, what^^ever it is. The fact is, I've owed them^Hagges a grudge for the last fifteen yeara,^ami I got myself called up as a witness on
Imrposeto git even with 'em, and 1 feel^'ve done it. Good-bye.
TheyCiiuhlli'l See the Joke.
Fromthe Philadelphia Press.
Threeof the Episcopal congreas sat in^a corner of the Lafayette writing room^yesterday afternoon talking over aome^important subject. All were men rang^^ing from .V) to ^ years, all were dressed^in black and the face of each wore a look^of intense interest. Those who noticed^tin se gentlemen were aware that they^were discussing some important church^ipiestion, ami nobody heard what they^said but one young man who appeared to^have fallen asleep in a chair near by. As^be half opened his eyes the Western^bishop gravely said:
Gentlemen.I wish to ask a question.^^The others drew nearer, a* the bishop,^carefully adjusting his spectacles, con^^tinued. ^Gentlemen, why is grim death^like a tin rati tied to a dog's tad'.^'
Asilence ensued. The two clergymen^thus addressed mused for a while, and^then shook their heads. ^Give it up,^^tin y said.
Asmile spread over tho bishop'* f.u ^^,^as he .libl. il, ^Grim death is like atitii an^tied to a tlog's tail, because it's bound to^a pup. Then he burst into a roar of laugh^^ter, ami the others made feeble efforts to^join him mid appreciate the joke.
I.atelast evening, after the session of^the congress, the three met again in the^I-afayelie corridor, anil the bishop, a little^embarrassed, said: ^Gentlemen, 1 told^that story wrong this afternoon; what I^really meant was this: Grim death is like^a tin can tied lo a dog's tail because it's^bound to iM't nr not to a pup.
Tileothers laiigheti this trip.
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liteXViiiuan Napoleon fluted.
Thelady whom the Emperor Napoleon^111. hated most on earth has just died.^During the brilliant days that followed^the coup d'etat Na|K^leoii made countless^efforts to live on goisl terms with the old^nobility. There was no limit to the bri^^bery, cajolery, and even threats to which^he resorted in order to induce them to^frequent his brand new court. The Mar-^quisc de ( ash llelie. whose leath is just^announced, took the lead in bidding htm^di lliiuce. She not only refused to goto^court herself, but she cut any of her ae-^quaint.lilies whom she knew to meet^w ith favor there, ami as In r salon was the^most . In.ruling m I'aris chance of being^excluded ffWB U was not so lightly en^^countered. The marquise was agrand-^tiiece of Talleyrand, and it was through^I er ititluelice thai the great diplomat^s gneil an ai tj^f retraction and became rec^^onciled to the church of Home. I'or some^years she lived in retirement, but in^earlier days she w as one . f the most bril^^liant ami powerful of the grandesihiine*^of I'aris.
CARDSOF ALL NATIONS
kDescription or Them and^Aboot Them.
BooH
THEYCAME FROM THE EAST
FirstUsed In Europe After the Cru-^^edes-Tha Rearrangement of
The Pack for the French^Kings, Charles VI. and VII.
lit.0*Ml**teMa Hh tie Ynii Trntel.
Fromthe New Ymk Km.
Iused p. think as you do,^ the old^traveler said to the young one. ^I have^bet ^i around the world with only such^baggage as 1 could pick up and carry off^myself, bul us 1 |. row older I find I hare^achse chough to look after a trunk with^^out being worried by it, ami how I always^take one. Titer^ ant few large hotels^w here they w ill not tin washing in -'4^hours, and in plenty of them you can get^things back the -ame day, but you areha-^bie at able.-I a'.v lime to 'tru. ; I ii on^wheie MM don't waul to botln r about it,^or where) mi haven't tune yourself. On^along joiirm y extra clothing is often^MM ciivi uieiit, and who wants to^crowd that into a valise^ The better^thing to do is to take along enough of^everything to keep yourself comfortable,^w hatever may turn up.
S|inkeI lout t.xprrlriic,
FromIhe fork
T.Total ia I atsn it atated that a man^can get roaring drunk on water.
C.Wauuker I should any In could.You^ought to go to ., L ,u I.moot n gain, once.
TJ\\ B0 invented cards, and who^1*IJ*J were the men who first sat down^to a quiet little game '.' When^^ever a nuwly-elected country judge de^^livers an opinion in a will case he invar^^iably begins it by saying that the origin of^testamentary disposition is lost in the^mists of antiquity, which is contrary to^tbe fact. Hut the origin of playing card*^ii certainly indiacoverable, and remains^so, though profound research has been^brought to bear on this interesting ques^^tion. The limit of our knowledge, says^Mrs. John K. Van Rensselaer in her big^quarto volume, ^The Devil's Picture^Books,^ just published by Dodd, Mead A^Co., is that they came from the East ami^win brought into I.urope both by the^Crusaders and the gypsies. Every coun^^try in Europe has laid claim to the honor^of lH'ing the first to use them, and almost^every ^ hii nt.il nation has it* particular^cauls, games and tradition*.
Thatthe Chinese have played cards, as^they have perfoi incd every other mortal^funciion. longer than any other people^there MMJM rausoii to suppose. High^Chinese authority, the most respectable^dictionary of lii7.s. declares that the can!*^now known in China as Teeu-tsze-pae, or^dolled cards, were invented in the reign^of l.i un-ho, A. D. 11-^, and tradition says^that 1111 ^^^ were invented to amuse Leuil-^ho's wives, t If course all the tradtiotis^agree that they were invented to amuse^^oinebtsly. It never occurred to the tra^^dition makers, apparently, that they^might have been invented to win some^^body's money. That the older CMMM^cards were of bone or ivory ulso helps out^the Indian tradition that cards are only^chessmen transferred to paper, whether^to admit more people into the game or to^add uu clement of uncertainty by conceal^^ing the value of the chessmen.
TheChinese card is long and narrow,^is printed in black on thin cardboard and^bears figures of anunuls or their names^above the pips. Curiously enough it is^said thut the smart lieoplo in China af^^fect to know nothing about cards, and^leave their use to the common folk.
Thetradition regarding the origin of^Ilinilostaneo cards is that they were in^^vented by a favorite sultana to cure her^husltand of a bad habit of l ulling his^beard. Indian cards are circular in shape,^and the early packs that are preserved in^MthMM and by collector* are beauti^^fully painted on ivory or wood. The^numbers of suits vary, often rising as^high as ten, with twelve cartl* in each^suit, two honors and ten numbered^cards. In these appears our friend, the^king, sometimes ruling an elephant, and^a rtnw or general.
Thecards of Cashmere much resemble^those of Hindustan, a puck which Mrs.^Van Rensselaer comments upon being^mule of thin slices of MML thickly var^^nished and painted, with three suits of^l'J cards each. One suit, apparently a^^moon^ suit, which emblem closely re^^sembles the ^money^ used on the Italian^and Spanish cards, shows in its court^cards tin- figure of a man mounted on a^tiger and bearing a distinctive emblem^uplifted in his right hand, and here again^there is a striking resemblance, for the^attitude has been closely copied on the^Spanish cards, though in them the figure^is seated on horseback. The ^moon^^mark has t^cen probably derived in thtse^Cashmere curds from those of Hindoatau.^The emblem has spread far and wide, the^Chineae using one that Is closely allied to^it, and the wotalen cubes of the Alaska^Indians closely following it. The green,^or diamond, suit shows a vizier on a^white horse and u seated *ultau for court^cards; the diamonds arc unmistakable,^and are strongly like the mark* used by^the Apaches to distinguish one of their^suits. In the white suit of the Cashmere^cards the king ia inoitnUtl on an elephant^and the vizier on a bull. The pips show^tiny figures of men in red garments and^wearing red turbans.
ThePersian cards are tho only ones in^the Kast to show u courtesan, or qinml^and indeed the only ones in the world^except the French and those derived from^them.
Wasit Xiccolo Polo or Marco I'olo who^in tbe 1 'th century brought cards from^from China to Venice^ Or is it only tra^^dition, at best, thut he tlid bring them.^Many of Ihe e.trlii st red relics to cards,^among them the earliest of all, are to be^found in Italian archives. In a MsM^^i-ci i pi.preserved at Viterlto it is stated that^playing cards were introduced in that city^U1S79, that they came from the country^of the Saracens anil were called ^Nahi. '^The Italians *till call their cards Nahi,^and the Spauianls Nayi^es. Mr. Taylor,^in his hook on playing cards, regards this^as proof positive that the gypsies brought^cartls into Europe, sine* the gypsies were^fortune tellers, anil ^Nal^i^ ia the Arabic^for prophet. We call it ^Maluli^ to-day,^so there is the connection MfcMM the^Mali li and playing cards. In 1441 the^crd makers of Venice bad passed for^their benefit one of the earliest protective^laws on record, the senate prohibiting the^import of painted cards in large quanti^^ties. It is remarkable that in th^ peiition^of Um Venetian card makers both printed^and pail, ted cards are mentioned.
Tli.se Italian curds were undoubtedly^Tan tsaiid indeed the invention of Tarots,^or Tarocchi, has been claimed by an Dal^^ian writer for a nativeof llologna at some^time previous to 141'J, on the strtngthof^an old portrait.
TheseTarots were the cartls used in^MfltMl Europe, whether first used in^France or Italy. The pack* contained^seventy-eight cards, four ^uit* of numeral^carda and twenty-two eiubli matic iiic-^ttireil card* calhtd Atouts, or truiu*. The^suil* were usually awortls, cups, sticks^and money, each consisting of fourteen^cards.with four honors,king, queen knight^and knave, though the queen was^not always admitted. Here we find the^origin of our Mosfl suit* obviously.^I'he Atoiita were nuniliercil up to twenty-^otu^. each having its own vulue and ^fou^^or joker beside, which was Used to add to^Ihe value of any Atoilt to w hich it was^I iin. ,1. The characters of these Atouts^were numerous, including a^ Emperor, a^Cupid, a Chariot, !^^ ath, the Day of Judg^^ment. Justice, Fortune, etc. T hettecanls,^s ,\ s .Mrs. \ ,,n Ivciissi lacr, quoting from^linger, were not played in onler, hut had^^|iecial signilleances. Thus the holder of^the ^Fool regained his slake, ^Strength^^took double attikea from the pool, while^^Death^ awept the Itoard, and MM) The^lH-aiitiful specimciisof these Tarrot canls.^though not the earliest of their sort now^l.rescrv.il in 1'aria nt the Hibliothcque^Siiti.iiiale, an^ ^supposed to hare formed^pari^ of th^ cele'iralml pack that was^painted for the mad king, Chnrle* \ l^Travelers in Alsace anil Switierland may^slid IIml cards closely resembling these^Tarots in unfrequented ueighliorliissls.^llv the II,ic nth century the Agout* begun^to bo dropped, following the rearrange
mentof the pack said to hare Itccn made^by tho French courtier* for King Charlea^VII. These were notthecard* made for^Charles VI. Jacqueimn Gringuiineur,^painter, received fifty sols parsia about
V.fM for illuminating the three packs with^whieh the demented lover of Agues Sorel,^the ^Dauphin ai genlil,^ whose kingdom^was taken from him piec^meal, cheered^his saddened hour*. The new game^spread rapidly and all edict had to be^issued in 1J97 forbidding the working peo^^ple from playing curds, among other di^^versions, except holiduys. It is worthy^of remark that cards are not enumerated^in the ordinance of Charles V., made^twenty-eight years previously, Hn which^all games of hazard were enumerated.^Hut the card* made by Grin-^gonneur for Charlea VI were Tarots. The^earliest pack bearing the distinctive^marks with which we are familiar, dates^from the reign of Churle* VII. In this,^hearts, diamond*, clubs and spades u|^-^peared for the Ilrst time, and two distinct^^ive colors were used. The venerable^pack, or fragment of a pack, in the Hibli^^othcque Nation.ile, might lie used to-day^if it were complete. Mr*. Van Rensselaer^quotes the arguments of M. La Croix to^show that it was the invention of htienne^Chevalier, tho secretary and treasurer to^Charlci VII, fumous for his talents in de^^signing and u clever draughtsman
Residesthe Spanish ami Italian cartls^the German were undoubtedly of Sara^^cenic origin, as they have no queen, and^the nhl-fushioiieil bells, hearts, acorn*^and greens, still preferred m many parts^of the country, show smodification of the^Tnrot emblems rather than of the French^device*.
Ourcards were adopted directly from^France into England, and the games^which we play have been invented from^time to time by these tw o nations or by^ourselves. The French have given us^piquet and casino, England endowed us^whist, and euchre and poker we have^evolved out of our own speculative imagi^^nations. BSNXUtiful specimens of early^playing cartls, both French and English,^are to he found in museums and collec^^tions. Mr*. Va:l RmmmMshT melllions^the curious and interesting pack* of^Charlea VII'* tune in the liiblioiheque^Nalionale, w hich preserves, in ita ape-like^king and queen of hearts and knave of^clubs, a significant reference to the Ballet^Anient, at which poor Charles TL^vv as m arly burnt up w hen the^Due d'Orleutis, by accident or de^^sign, applied the fatal torch to the mum^^mers dressed as savages, uniting whom^was the king. It has often been supposed^that Ibis king of hearts represented the^Due d'Orlenns, while the queen stood for^Isabella of Havana, the wile of the mad^monarch.
Thoearly English cartls are Tarots,^with the Saracenic cups, swords, maces^ami money. The German grelot, or bell,^is also found on some of these. In her^notes upon American playing cards Mrs.^Van Rensselaer refers to the old invita^^tions printed on playing cards, or to the^educational cartls and Yankee notions of^a more hypocriticul era and to the charm^^ing old ivory llsh used by our grandfathers^us counters. Her plates of the gambling^sticks of the Haida and Alaska Indiana^and of tho hoine-made playing card* of the^Apaches are curious anil valuable, but^her comments on them can hardly be^said to rise to the dignity of a monograph.^She favors the theory of Asiatic origin for^the Alaskan gambling sticks. It may Is^^correct, of course, but they are remote re^^semblance* on which it is based.
Mr*.Van Rensselaer's work is a beauti^^ful piece of hook-making, the plate* of^the Japanese playing eanls, for instance,^being really admirable examples of illu^^minated printing, but a piece of book-^making it is and nothing more. It is^badly arranged, repeats itself without ex^^cuse and is more than once self-contra^^dictory. Mr*. Van Rensselaer should^really try'to distinguish Itelwcen Charles
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