The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-08
Lucky Numbers
Chicago Tribune.

Do you believe in certain numbers being more lucky than others asked a 7fsjss< reporter the other day of a gambler who vas said to play on sys- rem.' and vao ~as. consequently, aboul stone broke
 Yes, do, WIS the reply x but sa, not nearly as superstitiocs abou. nambers as some people. If you will come along with me ~iil introduce you to a friend of mine who swears by them aud xho has 10 end of anecdotes"
 The reporter and ;he ga ubles accord ingir vended their way to a down,cwu res.Aurant where the man they sought was found discussing stew"
 Do believe in certain numbers be- ing luckys Well you be, do. and why nos: Have yeu ever studied the ques- uon v
 The reporter confessed tha, he had not.
 Well. then, I'll explain. You see, card-players. for instance. believe ,ha. there is good luck under the deuce and bad tuck under the nine of diamonds One theory says thA; even numbers are uniucky, because. each can be divided into two, thereby deno,ing death and dis solGtioa- Some people are in favor of o1d numbers, because God IS one ,n three and because he made the holy day the seventh. The number seven and IS mnlnplies rere on other grounds made lncky, because human being sheds ms teeth at seven, becomes a youth al ,wiee sever, man a, three seven. and reaches the l,mit as nine times seven have heard Of an old superstition that three T tfft nf good as funeral. Sore people have 2 knsok of making ou, lucky and unlacky years for people by adding t,gesher the year of OUT Lord, the digi, xhioh com- poss ,ha, number. the age Of the in. d,vidnai, and the number of years be- tween his birth, marriage, or some other notable event in his lie
 Are not people very supers,itious sbou, luck ID lottery numbers. = asked the reporter
 Yes continued the old gambler. more so ID that than ID anything else. You sec they have DO theory and rus, go blindly. don, believe ID louer,es, 6u, man, people do. and the agents of the oonp-nies. kno~ing JUS, what sort ot customers they have to deal with. make speciality of professing to sell lucky rnmbers- l knew a negro once who dreamed that swo particular numbers would turn up prizes. and when they came blank he cut his ,hroa, w.,h a razor rom disappointment. heard of a man once. too, who bough, the ticket shas 700 the capital PaHe h lottery, and the day before the drawing is vas stolen from ain- When he heard sha, the tickes had won he ~eni raving mad A man. An- deTson by name, kept small grocery store, and bought folr nokees for lot. tesy numbered consecuusely. He ~As afraid this was unlucky, 90 he changed one. The one he exchanged was bought oy man up in eae Of the frontier foxss and II won the 6rs, 2rize. Anc<hes tune aparsy Of friends going down the N'ssis- ssrri determined to buy nekes among them and asked little girl rha, numbes they should purchase. She told them No. 10000. However. this wasnt mys- sexsoas enough, % they bought another number, bat No. 10 ooo voc all the same A friend of mine once bought the num- ber IS 66S, as he had dreamed that that number would win A few days afker- wards he read that r4 66S had won the big pri1e. He accordingly vent out ard treated night and left On looking again, however, he found that he had misread II oos for It o6s, % he vas ous of pocket the drinkx'
 Dsd you eves win anything yocrseif through your beaief.-
 Can't say ever did-'