Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1888 — Poker in Williamsburg. [ARTICLE]
Poker in Williamsburg.
Young Dolby (as it comes his turn to talk) —I’m out, gentlemen. Looker-oil—Why, man alive! What are you talking about ? You’ve got four aces! Young Dolby—l know; but if anybody should happen to hold a royal flush I’d have to walk clear out to East New York, and I lost my shoes on the last deal!— Tid-Bits. Silver, generally a very desirable metal, is a source of great annoyance in the manufacture of white lead, for, if present in an appreciable quantity, it spoils the color of the finished product, owing to the well-known blackening effect of light upon the salts of silver.
