Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-07-13
Luck in Lotteries.

Curiously illustrative of the tricks played
from time to time by Dame Fortune to her
votaries are two well ll-authenticated lottery
stories, recently narrated by the gifted
feuilletonist Hieronymus Lorm. Some
years ago IN Berlin, poor girl dreamed
three times running of certain num-
Der, which appeared to her in lumin-
GUS figures. while an unearthly voice, re-
peating over and over again, "This num-
Der will win the first prize in the class lot.
tery," resounded in her minds ear. She
impaired the vision to her guardian, and
he repaired to the Royal lottery Office and
enquired what had become of the ticket
bearing the numbg in question, receiving
answer that it had been disposed of to a
well-known lottery agent in Koenigsberg
He forthwith wrote TO this person enclos-
ing the price of the ticket and requesting
that it should be forwarded to HIM by re-
turn of post. In reply to this application
he was informed that that particular ticket
had been sold over the c-unter day or
two before. TO whom the agent could not
say. He, however, enclosed in his letter
another lottery ticket, which he naively
recommended as ''an excellent and highly
promising number" But the youthful
dreamer's guardian, failing to recognize
any special merit in the ticket thus urged
upon his acceptance, sent it back with Pc
remptory instructions that his money
should be returned to him without delay.
His vexation may be imagined when at the
drawing of the State lottery the number
winning the first prize of $4,000 proved
to be, not that of which his ward had
thrice successfully dreamt, but the one he
had refused to purchase at the recommend
alton OF the koenigsberg agent. Still
stranger is the second lottery incident re-
corded by NJ. 1orm. 1t took place in a
small town of Neither, Austria, and led to
a long, wearisome lawsuit, with what re-
suit, however, the chronicler does not in
form us. In the chief square stood a gro
GERS shop, the proprietor of which, the
leading trademan of the place, sold lottery
tickets, as well ''as sugar and spice, also
all that's nice" To him appeared one
morning young student, who WAS a con-
slant customer, in state of great excite
ment about dream of the previous night,
in which it had been clearly manifested 10
him that he had won the great prize in the
local land-lottery with ticket which had
been chosen for him by the grocer's wife.
He entreated the grocer to intrust HIM with
a packet of lottery tickets for few seconds
IN order that he might solicit the lady in
question TO select one from among them,
which ticket he would then purchase and
pay for on the spot. "You cannot see my
wife. replied the grocer, 'for she is ill in
bed, but if you like | will take few of the
tickets up to her room aud she shall choose
one for you" To this arrangement the
student agreed, and 1t was carried out ac-
cordingly. When the lottery was drawn,
the ticket purchased by him upon the gro
GERS assurance that it had been picked out
by the latter's wife, turned out blank.
But the willy grocer drew the first prize
with the ticket really selected by his bet
ter half, which ne had kept for himself,
selling another Of his own choice to the
too-confiding student. So, at least the
story goes.