Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
LUCK IN LOTTERIES.
Some Strange Tricks That Dame For
tune Has Played

From Tit Bits.
Fortune is never so caDricious as whom
she is turning a lottery wheel. and a whole
library might be written of the strange
pfanks she has played with those who have
"ooeo her in this guise. She was in a
strangely capricious mood when 1t pleased
her TO convert a Dublin shop assistant into
man of fortune and the founder of a noble
family.
Luke White, the father of the first Lord
Annaly was poor Manxman who had
dfilteh TO Dublin to serve behind the coun-
ter of booksellers shop In the hone of
auuihs 10 ms scanty earnings he bought a
number of lottery tickets for sale hut
found himself unable to disoose of them
all AT the last moment he decided to send
the unsold tickets to Belfast in the hope of
llhulils peter market there; but when the
codch had been day on its journey he re-
ceiVed a letter informing him that the de-
spised tickets had won valuable prizes
Aihough the news came in the dead of
nlsht Luxe White got up Immediately,
saddled a horse, and raced madly in chase
| or the coach. He rode through the night
| and the whole of the following day. and
overlook the coach within a few miles of
BelfaSt. He rescued the bundle of tickets.
and returning home, exchanged them for
| prizes of the value of 500 900
An amusing story is told of wicked trick
| whlch fortune played a short time ago on a
iS'S' he iduy ana nef husband. who We're
| travelling, called at the shop of a country
| draper to make a few purchases They
We're about to leave the shop, when an at
| tractive bonnet arrested the lady's atten-
| uon, and she induced her husband to buy
| 1t for her.
When it 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 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 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.
! 1t was happy inspiration that tempted
| a young lieutenant the Italian battle
| ship Lepanto to turn his attention to the
| Spanish Christmas lottery couple of years
ago. The ship was cruising off the coast of
| Spain and 1t occurred to the lieutenant to
| induce all on board, from captain to cabin
| boy, to join in purchasing a lottery ticket.
| The ticket was bought, and, to the delight
| of all, was fortunate enough to win the
| first prize of $165,000, 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 small shop in a suburb of Berlin.
One evening as she was serving a customer
a working man stepped into the shop and
| begged permission to light his pipe. Draw
ing 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 a word of thanks
! When sweeping the floor the next morn
| ing the widow took up the charred paper
out of idle curiosity, and unfolding it, saw
| that it was a lottery ticket, only a frac-
| ton of which had been burnt. She folded
1t 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 remembered the crumpled
| ticket in her pocket, and, on producing it.
| found to her amaZement and delight that
| the rejected ticket had won a prize of $50.
0O0 She claimed the prize, and although
she advertised widely for it's original own
| er with the intention of sharing it with
him, she has been left in undisturbed pos
session of her fortune.