Identifier: worldsalmaniacfo00chur (find matches)
Title: The World's almaniac for 1879 : a compendium of useless and interesting information
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart), 1842-1924
Subjects: American wit and humor
Publisher: New York : World
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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36 —The Worlds Abnaniac for 1879.— (^altttnbuH md the Jggg. COLUMBUS, while at the court of Castile, being unable toinduce any of the grandees to take a hand at cards with him,cast about for some other method of obtaining the funds neces-sary for the equipment of his squadron, and soon hit upon anotable plan. One day, when the courtiers were gathered around the statelymonarch, he adroitly turned the conversation upon feats of dex-terity, then casually drawing an egg from his doublet, said hewould bet two doubloons and a half none of them could makethat egg stand on one end on the table. Ha! laughed the light-hearted Roderigo dOssuna. QueenIsabellas favorite page, by my fay, thou seekest a soft thing,but I have a hundred rose moidores in that—and he flung apurse filled with gold upon the table— which say that thoucanst not do it neither. I take that, seiior, said Columbus, as he drew from hiswallet several treasury notes of large denominations; doesany other grandee want to com

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