Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-06
ODD LUCK IN LOTTERIES.
SEVERAL INSTANCES OF FOR
TUNES IRREGULARITIES.
Gases Where Fortunes Have Been Given
Away--How Noble House OF
Ireland Was Founded on
Lottery Tickets.

Fortune Is never so capricious as
when she is turning a lottery wheel;
and whole library might be written
of the strange FRANKS she has played
with those who have wooed her in
this guise. She was in a strangely ca
PRECIOUS mood when II pleased her to
convert Dublin shop-assistant into
man OF fortune and the founder of q
noble family.
Luke White, the father of the first
Lord Annaly, was a poor Manxman,
who had drifted to Dublin To serve be-
hind the counter of booksellers shop.
In the hope OF adding to his scanty
earnings he bought IA number of lot
terry 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 day on its
journey he received n letter informing
him that the despised tickets had won
valuable prizes.
Although the news came In the dead
ately, saddled a horse, and raced mad
~ In chase of the coach. He rode
through the night and the whole of the
following day, and overlook the coach
within few miles of Belfast. He
rescued the bundle OF tickets and. re-
turning home, exchanged them for
prizes of the value of 100000
- Ii e. o,tn
Rotter. tObacconist of Chicago, who
purchased a lottery ticket last year
Rotter thought so lightly of his pros
pect of winning anything that he gave
his ticket, in spirit of fun, to a
friend, Joseph Dost, as a birthday
present On the very day on which he
parted with the ticket its number was
announced as having won "A prize OF
$4,000. Rotter felt the blow of his
misfortune so keenly that he died from
heart disease. from which he had suf-
fered for some time, on the following
day
An amusing story Is told of wicked
trick which fortune played, a short
time ago, on lady. The lady and her
husband, who were travelling, called mt
the shop of country draper to make
a few purchases. They were about to
leave the shop, when an attractive
bonnet arrested the lady's attention,
and she induced her husband to buy il
for her.
When IL 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 ii 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
over $4,000
| 1t was happy inspiration that
tempted a young lieutenant on the
Italian battlesbip Lepanto to turn his
attention to the Spanish Christmas lot
terry a couple of years ago. The ship
was cruising off the coast OF Spain,
and IL occurred to the lieutenan to in
duce all on board, from captain to cab
In boy, to join in purchasing n lottery
ticket. The ticket was bought. and.
to the delight Of all, was fortunate
enough to win the first prize OF $780,
600, 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 wild
ow who kept a small shop in a suburb
of Berlin. One evening as she was
serving a customer a working man
stepped into the shop and begged per
mission to light his pipe. Drawing a
piece of paper from his pocket he
twisted ii up, lit 1t at the gasjet. he
after lighting his pipe, threw down the
spill and walked out with a word Of
thanks
When sweeping the floor the next
morning the widow took up the
charred paper out of idle curiosity. and
unfolding IL, saw that il was lottery
ticket, only fraction Of which had
been burnt She folded 1t up. put il
away In her pocket, and had almost
forgotten Ii, 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 $4,000. 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
possession of her fortune.
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