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Show MARRIAGE LOTTERY IN ETJSSIA. Marriage is a real lottery at Smolensk; Smo-lensk; Russia. Four times a year a lottery is held, the capital prize being a young country girl, sometimes with a good dowry in sheep. The price of a ticket is about 85 cents. At a single drawing 5000 tickets sre sold. He who is fortunate enough to draw the lucky ticket has his alternative he may marrv the girl if she pleases him, also gaining thereby $4000 in addition to whatever the girl brings with her as dowry, or if the "prize" in question does not please him he can turn the ticket over to a friend. New York Tribune. |