The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-06
oRTUHE-BRINeIEG DREAMS.


Has there ever been lottery, we
wonder, in which dreams Of lucky
numbers have not played roman
tic part, as in the case of M. Cousin,
who won the the second prize of S.
600 in the recent French lotteryl
That, for instance, is strange
story that is told of Signor Fozzi,
merchant of Milan. Not long ago
the signor dreamed Of his daughter,
who died several years since, and
next morning, with his dream still
mournfully haunting, his memory,
something brought to his mind that
it was one of the days on which the
municipal lottery was open. To the
lottery he went, being man of sport
ing instincts, and his dreams suggest
ed 1.-the venture. His daughter hav-
ing died at the age of "a years IS
days and q hours he selected these
1,th nmber 20 bet upons and two
Of the three proved highly lucky.
One, on which he had laid IS. I'D.
brought him $50 times his stakes,
or over G1oo, and the other 1880
times bis stake of GI I2s. 3d., or
nearly s., 900.
1t wasa dream that brought for
tune too late for an Italian peasant
called Luce. The peasant dreamed
one night that he had been present
at the drawing of the great State lot
terry, and that the first prize of S.
600 had fallen to ticket No. 2IoI6.
When he awoke he was so strongly
impressed by MS dream that he scrap
ed together allthe money he possess
ed, and, after long searching, was
able to buy ticket, not of the number
of his dream, butcontaining the same
figures in different order. Then he
fell on evil days, his wife died of an
illness brought on by hardship and
starvation, and a few days later he,
too, succumbed. Within a week of
this double tragedy the ticket he had
purchased was awarded the great
prize at the lottery drawing.
A similar pathetic story is told of a
poor blind woman, once familiar
figure in Sackville street, Dublin,
where for years she earned scanty
livelihood by selling laces and other
small articles. One night she dream
ed of a number which was to win a
great prize in a forthcoming lottery,
and when she awoke she hurried to
the lottery Office to insure it. The
number was not drawn; but her faith
in it was unabated, and time after
time she insured it, selling her clothes,
and even the basket that contained
her goods, to raise the necessary
money. At last her small resources
were quite exhausted. One day she
was unable to insure the number and
that very day it was drawn. The
blow of fortune was too much for the
poor old creature, and, cropping her
blind way to the the Royal Canal,
she ended her troubles in its waters.
In the early days of lotteries in
ERSlSnd~ ~to--dfeafl q numher-E Eas
| Looked on as the luckiest of omens.
ID an old copy of the Post Boy we may
l~still read this advertisement: "This
is to give notice that 10 shillingsOver
and above the market price will be
given for the ticket in the GI 500, 900
| lottery, No. 1872, by Nath Cliff, at the
Bible and Three Crowns in Cheap.
side" Light was throw on this
mysterious notice by letter which
the advertiser wrote to the Spectator
in which he says: ''You must know
I have but one ticket, for wich rea-
son, and certain dream I have late
ly had more than once, I resolved II
! should be the number I most approv'
ed. Ny visions are so frequent and
strong upon this occasion that I have
not only possessed the lot but dispos
ed of the money which in all proba'
bility it will sell for"
About the same time footman, on
the strength of similar dream, spent
the whole of twenty years savings II
purchasing two lottery tickets bearing
his lucky dream numbers, and when
the tickets proved blanks we learr
"after few melancholy days he put
an end to his life" In box was
found the following plan of the man
ner in which he should spend the G5,
600 prize, which his mistress preserv
| "a nc n c,,ri0citv
"As soon as have received the
money l will marry Grace Towers
but as she has been cross and coy
will use her as a servant. Every
morning she shall get me a mug oi
strong beer, with toast, nutmeg and
sugar in it then l will sleep un
til 10, after which / will have large
sack posset. My dinner shall be or
table by I, and never without gooo
pudding. / will have stock of wine
and brandy laid in. About S in thu
afternoon l will have tarts and jellie'
and gallon bowl of punch at 10
hot supper of two dishes. If am il
good humor and Grace behave
herself, she shall sit down with me.
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