The suit was dismissed.

CHESS KING RULES IN QUAINT GERMAN TOWN.

CHILDREN TAKE BOARDS TO SCHOOL

In No Other Part of the World Is the
Game Taken So Seriously as It
Is in Strohbeck.

The German town of Stroehbeck is ruled by two kings--one red and one white.
Each has his queen and his attendant knights and bishops, his castles, and
his--pawns. In other words, the game of chess is master in Stroehbeck.

It appears that in the year 1011 A.D. a certain Count Gunnelin was shut up
in the tower prison at Stroehbeck, and, as there was nothing else to do, he
chalked out a chess-board on the floor and made some rough pieces.

In time the jailer became interested in the count's maneuvers on the
checkered field, and the two played together. The jailer ultimately taught
the game to others, and it won a popularity which it has never lost in
Stroehbeck. To quote the _Penny Magazine:_

Young and old, men and women, boys, girls, and almost
infants in arms play chess with a keenness and assiduity
that is something more than remarkable. Tiny tots learn the
moves upon the chess-boards and are taught the intricacies
of the game just as much as a matter of course as they are
taught their A B C, and some of them can play a game of
chess well enough to beat many an ordinary exponent of the
game before they can read.

Chess is taught in the schools, to which the pupils carry
chess-boards as the English school-child would carry his
satchel of books; and the pupils take a much deeper interest
in their chess lessons than any schoolboy in this country
has ever been known to take in any subject that was taught
him.

But it is not merely in school that chess is played in
Stroehbeck. Visit any local shop, and the shopman will lay
aside his chess-board in order to attend to your wants and
pick it up again the moment these are satisfied, to renew
his attentions to some problem or continue an exciting game
with his assistant. Even at the public-houses and places of
refreshment chess-boards and chess-men are provided, and
these are used by all and sundry.

Every home has its chess-board at which Darby and Joan while
away the winter evenings before the fire, or place it upon a
table in the garden in summer-time. In fact, chess is
familiar to every inhabitant from the time they leave the
cradle. Every one talks chess and t