The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-02
LOUISVILLE LIBRARY LOTTERY
From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.

From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The fascination Of fortune hunting is
not confined to lottery speculations. 1t
only becomes vulgar and text for hOm-
lies when il takes the shape of invest
ment in those seductive, delicately tinted
coupons that emanate periodically from
Havana, Louisville and other financial
and literary centers, at which the tickle
goddess holds her court Aspirations to
wealth, and efforts to grasp it hastily are
of ail degrees Of intensity, and take 80
many different shapes that to rail against
the desire in itself were to bclabor one of
the vital principles Of society and sci
numerous class of daily business opera
tions under the ban. At this point pub
lie opinion steps in and kindly
does the favor of establishing II line of
discrimination That says this judicial
authority, which is done with the surety
of winning, or with the larger chances
on ones side, is either Legitimate or tol
erablc; but done against odds and with
loss for consequence. it becomes wrong
and censurable. Ia other words, public
opinion runs very..much in the groove of
the preacher who thought it extremely
sinful to bet on the wrong horse.
simple EnOugu. TO.
lO,075.
Magical combination of figures
why didn't buy" said the specta-
tor who had stayed away from the lot
terry through caution.
"Why did not get that number in
/ stead of l0,O76?' said the man who came
/ within one of it. 'ItcOst no more
"Ofthc line" was the mental ejacula-
ton Of those who had invested nigh up,
say in the eighty or ninety thousands,
or low down in the simple hundreds
There it was. l0,075 There were all
sorts OF tickets but the right one; tickets
that were far from il; tickets that were
| close to il; tickets tEat sounded 50 much
I like il that the owners hud to take another
! look ut them to BE- assured that they
were not really and truly in luck.
: And still it was All easy, simple looking
sort of number.
Only lO,O75!
Almost any man might have had it,
H. tact the ag@rayating ease and sim
plicitv of the number was what bothered
people. The agents in Pittsburgh had
had it for sale for months. No doubt
buyers had been offered it, and threw it
aside to get others. They did not like
the appearance of the figures in print
perhaps, and vet before "l0,072-S3S0 600
had been on the bulletin ten minutes
everybody seemed To- know that the two
combinations fitted exactly, and the
only wonder was why everybody had not
l0O75 coupon in his brccches
pocket, instead of some SrnSclesS
thing for which blank was in all likeli-
hood reserved. Later in the day, when
telegram came that it was SlO,SlS that
won the $3S, 900, the wonderful knowing
ness of the virtue Of 1903 subsidized rap
: idly, and it did not seem such a happy or
remarkable collation. of numerals at all;
but by and by when another telegram
contradicted the latter and confirmed the
former report, l0,075 resumed its place iii
the memcry of spectators rs standard
and cnvIabc aggregation. \ report
which seems to have been well founded,
gained currency that a number of clerks
employed in one of our local public ins.i-
tutions were the fortunate possessors.
4 List of Lucky Nunibers.
\ special telegram from Louisville on
Saturday night furnishes the following
list Of the principal prizes. We append
it for the information of those interested
1856, $500; -, S,l6G, $1,000; @2,sSG,
Sl.52O; 39,5G9, $500; 2,437, $5,320;
90 $500; ol.239, $1,l4O; 92,207. $500;
1908. $500; IS is, Si32O; 3l.Slj. Sl :
j2O> 81, l29, 81, ,l4Oi 1861, $500; 1875,
1900; l4.2l7, Sl.l40; 92,9j2, l,440; So
ISL. 81 .44O A, 4O7, $500; I3,25I, ST.
go; 1858. $500; jG,4l7, $500 3d.
%53, $500; 45535, $500; 59ll6, ST.
800; l9lO9, Sl,l40; 54.43l, $l,l9Oi 81
Uii. $1,000; 1866, $l,520; 1915, ST.
500; $500, Sl,l40; 2l,Sll, $500 95,-
I02, l,l40; 1j,465, Sl.l4Oi s9,27l, S95,-
OOO 47.2Gl. $500; 43,lS2, ST.
go: 76,l43, $l,52O; 5O,Ol2, Sj,32O;
1888, Sl,lIO; 5%,7S4s 81, l4O; l,@32, So
500, 40 81, ,l4e; 96,535, $500; 1880,
81 800; 3S.Oll, $l,14O; 1887 $500; g.
40, Si,l40; 1918, $500; 6l,l4l, -, 800;
sS.slG; 81 800; - s24, 81 $50; SIP, ST.
800: So. 74s. $l.l4O; 92,232, $1,000: a.
oss. ~ 80; -, l45S, LAO; 40.l72, e3,sOO;
41,O79, $l,4OO; 20,2f2, Sl,520; 9S,Gl@,
. $1,000; 76,lS5, sl,52O; 90, 100, $500; 81
80, $500; 9l,7O7 $1,000; 95,374, ST.
l5o; 5,iGS, Sl.52O; 42,539, $1,000; i3,-
= III, S3,SOO; 5,s79, Sl,l4O; 1857,
$500; 55,7S6, $500; 1920, Sl,52O;
9l276, ST509; 4G,s43, 81 $40: 7,503.
Sl,l4O; 26,97l, $l,52O; 2S.4SO Sl.l4O;
SS,Ss9, Sl,l4O; 47,732, $l,52O; 2l.S2G,
$500; 7555 Sl,l40, l,l96, Sl,l4O;
65, 99S, $1,52O; %, GGG, $l,520; 56,499,
Sl.52O; 5O.O22. $&,ssO; 1924 S&;SOO; 30
200. 1900; 1865. LILO, l2,l23, $1,000;
1854, Sl,l40; 4S,l03, $l,l40; 25.sl0,
$500; 9l,134, $3.50; @5,2lO, $l,52O;
g,050. 81 900; l,2lL $3,S00; $685., ST.
900; 59,O49, 80; Asp, Sl,520; 4O2
$l.l4O; 95, 700, S2S,5OO; S0,l9S, $l,520i
%, l69, Sl,52O; 39,l3l, $500: 3O,l04
81, 40; GS,92G, $3.50; 7o.23l, Sl,liO;
SO.2lO. $500.