. Review of reviews and world's work. of the boat being it means a great deal to them to have theirsilk on the market exactly on time. Normandy and Brittany produce would probably all go bythe tunnel. But, says Mr. Dawbarn, this onlymeans more into the pockets of the railway com-panies and less into those of the build your Channel tunnel and the Lon-doner will reckon Paris nearer than Dublin, andthe Parisian and provincial Frenchman will havethe one great obstacle removed to his visitingEngland, — his dread of the sea. The writerforgets the rooted conviction of the
. Review of reviews and world's work. of the boat being it means a great deal to them to have theirsilk on the market exactly on time. Normandy and Brittany produce would probably all go bythe tunnel. But, says Mr. Dawbarn, this onlymeans more into the pockets of the railway com-panies and less into those of the build your Channel tunnel and the Lon-doner will reckon Paris nearer than Dublin, andthe Parisian and provincial Frenchman will havethe one great obstacle removed to his visitingEngland, — his dread of the sea. The writerforgets the rooted conviction of the exorbitantcharges of English hotels. THE FOLLY AND DOOM OF GAMBLING. THE Quarterly Review has an interesting dis-cussion of the art of gambling as devel-oped in connection with Monte Carlo, hoi-se-racing, and the Stock Exchange. The writerdescribes what goes on at Monaco thus : The roulette is a wheel which lies on its face withits center on a fixed pivot. Tlie croupier causes thewheel to revolve rapidly about its center, and then. Cupyrit;lit by U uUi: Y. THE CASINO AT MONTE CARLO MONACO. jerks a small ivory ball in the opposite direction aroundthe rim. When the ball loses its momentum it fallsinto one of thirty-seven stalls cut into the surface ofthe wheel. These stalls are marked in irregular orderwith the numbers from zero to thirty-six, inclusi%e;and they are colored alternately red and black, exceptzero, which has no color. The even chances, so calledbecause a successful bet upon one of them earns thevalue of the stake, are red against black, odd againsteven, first eighteen against secondeighteen. Zero does not belongto any of these groups. Whenzero appears, the bank takes halfthe stakes, and thus gains, on theaverage, J^ in 37, or per cent,on the even chances. If the gam-bler bets on a number and wins,the bank pays him thirty-fivetimes his stake instead of tliirty-six times, and thus wins, on theaverage, one stake in thirty-seven,or per cent, from
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