ANOTHER "LUCKY NUMBER" STORY.
A remarkable lottery and " lucky number" story comes from Naples. Ainhrogio, a poor monk, was visited by two vufiians, who asked him to give them the lucky number in the forthcoming Government lottery. He said it was impossible, as he had not the gift of prophecy. They insisted that he was acquainted with the mysteries of occult things, and that he could tell them, if ho choose, which number would win the -principal prize. Conscientiously, he refused to deceive them by a pretence, lb would have been better for him had he given the rufuans a number and got rid of them ; for, enraged at his repeated refusals, they so brutally ill-treated him that he had to be conveyed to a hospital, where he died in delirium of his injuries. But in the wanderings of his mind, which was affected by the treatment he had received, he muttered the numbers thirteen and sixty. Tin's becoming known, numbers of persons staked their money on those figures, which, as it happened, drew the principal prizes in the lottery.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1145, 31 May 1880, Page 3
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187ANOTHER "LUCKY NUMBER" STORY. Kumara Times, Issue 1145, 31 May 1880, Page 3
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