The sea coast echo., 1906-03-10
FORTUNE-BRINGING DREAMS
NUMBERS SEEN IN SLEEP CON-
StDEREp LUcKIEST OF oMENS.

thetic Story of Poor, Old Blind
Woman of Dublin.
Has there ever been a lottery, we
wonder, in which dreams of lucky
numbers have not played a romantic
part, as in the case of NJ. Cousin,
who won the second prize Of GS,000
in the recent French lottery?
That, for instance, is a 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 mourn
fully 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 sporting in
stincts, and his dream suggested the
venture. His daughter having died at
the age of "a years 13 days and 4
hours he selected these three num-
bers to bet upon, and two OF the
three proved highly lucky One, on
which he had laid IS. ID, brought him
ESQ times his stakes, or over 31OO,
and the other 4,250 times his stake Of
G1 12s Cd, or nearly $1,000.
It was a dream that brought for
tune too late for an Italian peasant
called Luca. 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 88,0UO
had fallen to ticket No. Z4016. When
he aw0ke he was so strongly Impress
ed by his dream that he scraped to-
gether all the money he possessed,
and, after long searching, was able
to buy a ticket, not Of the number
of his dream, but containing the same
figures in a different order. Then he
fell on evil days. his wife died OF
an illness brought on by hardship
and starvation, and leW 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 many years she earned
scanty livelihood by selling laces and
other small articles. One night she
dreamed of a number which was TO
win a great prize in a forthcoming
lottery. and when she awOke she hur-
ried to the lottery office to insure II.
The number was not drawn; but her
faith in it was undated, and time
after time she insured it, selling her
clothes, and even the basket that
contained her goods, to raise the nee
essary money. At last her small re-
sources 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,
creeping her blind way to the Royal
Canal, she ended her troubles in its
waters.
In the early days of lotteries in
England to dream a number was al
ways looked on as the luckiest of
omens. In an old copy of the Post
Boy we may still read this ADVERTISE
ment: This is to give notice that lO
shiIlings over and above the market
price will be given for the ticket in
the 100000 lottery, No. 1872, by
Nath Cliff, at the Bible and Three
Crowns, in Cheapside." Light was
thrown on this mysterious notice by
a letter which the advertiser wrote to
the Spectator, in which he says:
You must know I have but one
ticket, for which reason, and GER
tain dream I have lately had more
than once, I resolved it should be the
number I most approved My Wis
ions are so frequent and strong upon
this occasion that | have not only
possessed the lot but disposed of the
money which in all probability it will
sell for"
About the same time a footman,
on the strength OF a similar dream,
spent the whole of twenty years saw
ings in purchasing two lottery tickets
bearing his lucky dream numbers,
and when the tickets proved blanks
we learn, after a few melancholy
days he put an end to his life" In
a box was found the following plan
of the manner in which he should
spend the $4,000 prize, which his
mistress preserved as a curiosity:
LAS soon as l have received t1e
money I will marry Grace Towers;
but as she has been cross and coy
l will use her as a servant. Every
morning she shall get me a mug OF
strong beer, With toast, nutmeg and
sugar in it: then l will sleep until
10. after which I will have a large
sack posset. Ny dinner shall be on
table by 1, and never without a good
pudding. I will have a sock of wine
and brandy laid in. About 5 in the
afternoon | will have tarts and jel-
lies and a gallon bowl of punch; at
10 a hot supper of two dishes. II
l am in a good humor and Graces
behaves herself, she shall sit down
with me. e."-Tit-Bits.