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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 930, 21 October 1879, Page 2

" Poker ?"— -At a court m Kentucky, the case Smith v. Brown was called up. — " Who's for the plaintiff?" asked the judge, impatiently. ' ' May it please the Court," said a rising member of the legal fraternity, 1 "Pilkings is for the plaintiff ; but 1 left him just now over m the tavern, playing a game of poker. He's got a sucker there, and he's sure to skin him, if he only has time. He's got the thing all set to ring a ' cold deck' m which case he'll deal for himself four aces and his opponent four queens ; so that your honour will perceive he must ♦ rake the persimmons. 1 " " Dear me," said the judge, with a sigh, " that's too bad ! It happenß at a very unfortunate time. lam very anxious to. get on with these cases." A brown study followed, and at length a happy idea struck the judge. " Bill," said he, addressing the friend of the absent Pilkins who had spoken, "you understand poker as well aa Pilkins. Suppose you go over and play his hand. According to an American paper, one of the most learned men of science has worn his head nearly bald trying to invent a machine that would calculate with some,kindof accuracy the difference between the weight of a fish when it is first taken out of the water and when it gets into the newspapers.