A CHESS HEIRLOOM.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8164, 19 April 1895, Page 1

A CHESS HEIRLOOM.

•' Chambers's Journal " gives tho following oxainplo of tho abuse of pationce over a game of chos9 : "Therois a story of two persons of distinction— the ono lived at Madrid, and tho other at Rome— who played a game of chess at the di°tanco. They began when young, and though they lived to a very old age yet the gamo was never finished. One of them dying appointed his executor to go on with tho game. Their mode wrb : Each don kept a chess board with the pieces ranged in exact order in their respective closets at Madrid and Rome, and having agreed who should move first tho don informs his playfellow by letter that ho has moved his X P two squares. The courier speedily returns and advises his antagonist that tha minute after he had tho honor to receive this ho likewise moved his X P two squares, and so they went on. It would doubtless have turned tho brain of either of these two wealthy dons if they could have been present at any of tho occasions in recent times when a game has been begun and ended by tolcgraph botween places far apart in a few hours. '

A negro was aoalded to death from a boiler explosion, and on his tombstone they ohiaelled deeply: "Saored. to the memory of oup 'steamed fjiend,'