The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18
WERE FAVORED BY FORTUNE.
Instances of Sudden Riches Being Ac-
CURED by Luck.


From London Tid-Bits.
Fortune is never so capricious as
when she is turning a lottery wheel and
d Whole library might be written of
the strange FRANKS she has played with
those who have woed her in this guise
she was in strangely capricious mood
When 1t pleased her to convert a Dub
I'm shop assistant into man of for
tune and the founder of a noble family
Luke White. the father of the first
Lord Annaly, was a poor ManXman
VINO had drifted to Dublin to serve be-
hlnd the counter of a booksellers shop.
IN the hope of adding to his scanty
earnings he bought number of lottery
tickets for sale, but found himself un-
able to dispose of them all. At the last
moment he decided to send the unsold
ticket to Belfast, in the hope of finding
a better market there, but when the
coach had been day on it's journey he
received letter informing him that
the despised tickets had won valuable
prizes
Although the news came in the dead
OF night, Luke White got up immedi-
ately, saddled horse and raced madly
in chase of the coach He rode through
the night and the whole of the follow
ing day, and overlook the coach within
few miles of Belfast. He rescued the
bundle of tickets, and, returning home,
of 100000.
An amusing story is told of an
amusing trick which fortune played a
short time ago on a lady. The lady
and he her husband, who were travel
ing, called at the shop of a country
draper to make a few purchases. They
We're about to leave the shop when an
attractive bonnet arrested the lady's
attention, and she induced her husband
to buy it for her.
When 1t came to payment, however,
the husband found to his dismay that
he had not sufficient money to pay for
it, In this dilemma he offered the
draper an eighth share ticket in Ger
man lottery which he had in his purse,
and finally induced him to accept it in
| part payment. A few days later the
lady learned, to her disgust, that the
lottery ticket had won an eighth of
$4,000, and that her darling bonnet"
had thus cost her the record price of
nearly $500.
tempted a young lieutenant on the Ital-
ian battleship Lepanto to turn his at
tention to the Spanish Christmas lot
| terry a couple of years ago. The ship
was cruising off the coast of Spain and
| it occurred to the lieutenant to induce
all on board, from captain to cabin
boy, to join in purchasing a lottery
| tlthSt L lie llCktl WAS DOuSnl, anu "
| the delight of all. was fortunate enough
to win the first prize of $165, 900, which
was divided among the lucky owners
on Christmas day.
A very curious piece of good fortune
fell last year to the lot of poor widow
who kept a small shop in a suburb of
! Berlin. One evening as she was serv-
ing customer working man stepped
into the shop and begged permission to
| light his pipe. Drawing piece of pa
| per 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 a word of thanks.
| When sweeping the floor the next
morning the woman took up the char
| red paper out of idle curiosity and. I'M
folding it, saw that it was a lottery
ticket, only a fraction of which had
been burned. She folded it up and put
it away in her pocket and had almost
| forgotten it when the result of large
| lottery drawing caught her eye in the
| paper. She then remembered the
crumpled ticket in her pocket. and. on
| producing it found, to her amazement
that the rejected ticket had won a prize
| of $4,000. She claimed the prize, and
although she advertised widely for its
original owner. with the intention OF
sharing it with him, she has been left
in undisputed possession Of her fortune