Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-10
DAzED BY FORTUNE
German Peasant Girl Drew
$250,000 in Lottery.
PIGS AND FOWLS IDEAL
Thinks She Would Like to Drink
Tea and Merely Gossip.
PLANS TO KILL CREDITORS
Bankrupt Son of Rich Father Sends
Challenges to Men to Whom
He Owes Money.
PIGS AND FOWLS IDEAL
PLANS TO KILL CREDITORS
BY COUNT Won ELPHBERG.

Special Cabcgram to The Star.
BERLIN, December "A short cut
from comparative poverty to affiuence
has been taken by Magdalena Stein
hansen. who. by holding ticket number
1911 in the Prussian state lottery, has
won S2JO.0Oo She is peasant girl who
shaved over the washtub and toiled In
the fields of Silesia when her parents
were alive in order to augment the
slender income of her laborerfather and
washerwoman-mother Since their death
she has continued at manual labor to
keep body and soul together, earning
at the most So a week.
To an interviewer with whom she dls-
cussed her stroke of luck she declared
the mere thought of possessing so much
money made her giddy. She did not
fully realize its meaning OF how she'd
spend it. Her first thought is to buy
a neat little cottage. keep pigs aho
fowls, drink tea all day long and
gossip To her hearts desire with her fe-
male neghbors- She said that already
she has been Inundated with offers OF
marriage, petitions for help. toutins CIR
culars and a gigantic pile of promiscu-
Gus communications.
Would Fight Creditors.
Germany's foremost coal and iron mine
owner, who is estimated to be worth
2OOCO.OOO marks, has challenged his
thirteen principal creditors to duels
Young Thyssen's debts are enormous and
he has recently been declared bankrupt.
After waiting a year without any OF
their demands being satisfied the thirteen
principal creditors formed an association
for the purpose of safeguarding their in
terests and resaining as much OF their
money as possible. ThysSen regards this
as a personal affront and has sent his
seconds TO them to demand that they
shall fight out the case with weapons.
Opponents to duellinG in Germany who
are awaiting with interest a reply to
this strange challenge point out that it
would he adding injury to insult If Thys-
sen, besides owing them such large
sums of money, should shoot the men
from whom ne obtained 1t.
He is d formidable antagonist, having
In many duels invariably killed or
wounded his opponents.
Accused of Lese Majesty.
For compiling an account of the cost of
crowned monarchs to their respective
countries, German journalist. Harmand
Schnlid, is being indicted on charge of
lese majesty. This industrious statisti-
clan has prepared the following figures
The kaiser costs his country II cents
per head of the population yea! ly: the
Car of Russia, 20 cents; the King OF
Italy - cents; the Emperor of Austria,
so cents; King of Belgium, so cents. By
celebrating these figures and drawing
contrasts between their exorbitance and
the extreme cheapness of presidents of
republics, Schmid is held to have per-
petrated the crime of insulting the kaiser
and will have to stand trial for this Of
Tense.
Entered English Ports.
The wonderful feat of entering all of
England's principal ports on the south
east coast unperceived. and even enter
ing the mouth of the Thames and infest-
ing the great commercial highway that
leads to London. has been accomplished
by the fleet of German submarines which
have just concluded their trial trip in
order to give practical proof to the kaiser
and war staff of the German navy of
what they would be able to do should
war between Germany and England
break out. Part of the voyage was per-
formed in submerged condition. but no.
where beyond the halfway mark in the
North sea were the German submarines
noticed by either English ships or cruis-
erS.