The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-16
sHOWERED WITH LUCK.
Stories of People Who Go to Bed
Poor md Wake Up Wealthy.
From London Tit-Bits

FROM I4OHuOH Ilt-bAtS'
Fortune is never so capricious as when
she is turning lottery wheel and a whole
library might be written of the strange
pranks she has played with those who
have wooed her in this guise. She was
in a strangely capricious mood when it
pleased her TO convert a Dublin shop as
slstant into man Of fortune and the
founder of noble family.
Luke White, the father of the first Lord
Annaly, was a poor Manxman who had
drifted to Dublin to serve behind the coun-
ter of a booksellers shop. In the hope of
adding to his scanty earnings he bought
number of lottery tickets for sale, but
found himself unable to dispose of them
ALL AT the last moment he decided to
send the unsold tickets to Belfast in the
hope of finding a better market there; but
when the coach had been a day on its
journey he received letter informing him
that the despised tickets had won valu-
able prizes
Although the news came in the dead of
night Luke White got up Immediately,
saddled horse and raced madiy in chase
of the coach He rode through the night
and the whole of the following day and
overlook the coach within few miles IF
Belfast. He rescued the bundle of tickets.
and returning home, exchanged them for
prizes TO the value of 100000.
An amusing story is told of wicked
trick which fortune played a short time
ago on a lady. The lady and her husband,
who were travelling, called at the shop Of
a country draper 70 make a few purchases
They were about 10 leave the shop when
an attractive bonnet arrested the lady $
attention, and she induced her husband 10
buy it for her
When it came to payment, however, the
husband found to his dismay that he lad
not sufficient money 10 pay for it. In this
dilemma he offered the draper an eight
share ticket in a German lottery which he
had in his purse and finally induced him
TO accept it in part payment. "A few days
later the lady learned, 10 her disgust that
the lottery ticket had won an eighth of
SIS COO and that her darling bonnet" had
thus cost her the record price of nearly
49, 800
Ii was a happy inspiration that tempted
q young lieutenant on the Italian battle
ship Lepanto 10 turn his attention to the
Spanish Christmas lottery a couple Of
years ago The ship was cruising off the
coast of Spain, and ii occurred to the
lieutenant to induce all on board. from
captain 10 cabin boy, 70 join in purchasing
lottery ticket. The ticket was bou2ht
and to the delight of all. was fortunate
enough 10 win the first prize of S165. C00
which was divided among the lucky own
ers on Christmas day.
A very curious piece of good fortune fell
last year to the lot of a poor widow who
kept a small shop in suburb OF Berlin
One evening, as she was serving a Gus
toner a workingman stepped into the
shop and begged permission to light his
pipe. Drawing a piece of paper from his
pocket. he twisted it up, lit it at the gas
jet, and, after lighting his pipe, threw
down the spill and walked out with
word of thanks. When sweeping the floor
the rnxt morning the woman took up the
charred paper out of idle curiosity, and,
unfolding it, saw that il was a lottery
ticket only a fraction of which had been
burnt. She folded it up, put it away in
her pocket, and had almost forgotten it
when the result of a large lottery drawing
caught her eye in the paper She then re-
membered the crumpled ticket in her
pockt, and, on producing it, found, to her
amazement and delight. that the rejected
ticket had won prize of $4,000. She
claimed the prize and, although she adj
vertsed widely for its original owner, with
the intention of sharing it with him. she
has been left in undisturbed possession of
her fortune.