STRANGE LOTTERY FREAK.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4624, 30 October 1883, Page 2

STRANGE LOTTERY FREAK.

A well-authenticated lottery story was recently:narrted,by the feuilletonist Hieronymous Lorm. S6me years'agb, in Berlin, a poor orphan girl dreamt : three; times running of a certain number, which ip. peared- to her in luminous figures^ .while an unearthly voice, repeating over and over again, " This nuiajwrfwili? Jwifffthe first prize in the.Olasa-Lottery," re^mincled in her mind's ear; She imparted the vision to her'guardian, and he repaired to the Royal Lottery Office and inquired what had become of the ticket bearing the num* her in question, receiving answer that it had been disposed r of to:"'¥ well-known lottery agent in Koenigsberg. He forthwith wrote to this person, enclosing the price of the ticket, and requesting that it should be forwarded to him by^retarn of post. In reply to his ; - application he was informed that that particular ticket had been sold/ btfer the? counter, a day or two before, to whom the agent conld not say. He, however, enclosed in hit letter another lottery ticket," which he naively recommended as "an excellent and highly-promising number." But the youthful dreamer's guardiao, failing to recognise any special merit in the ticket thus urged upon iris acceptance, sentit back with peremptory instructions that hig money should be returned to him without delay. His vexation may be imagined when, at the 'next" drawing of the State Lottery, the number 'winning the T first priza of £15,000 proved" to be, not that of which his ward had thrice successively dreamt, but the one he had refused to purchase at the recommendation of the l£oenigsberg agent.