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Show GREAT PROFITS OF m LOTTERY WASHINGTON,' Bept-' H. Tha lottery lot-tery Is prontable scheme ia Cuba, aad tha returns to tha war department show that : last year tha Cuban goraramaat received from. this, soaree l,SOO,0OO profit, .which repraaente 10 per cent of tha satire annual receipts from all sources. ' " " These oBclal advices illustrated tha tremendous odds against tha buyer of a lottery ticket. Tickets to tha value of 300,000 remained uneeTrl last War, and these, af aouraa, -WersTTegarded as government holdings .and Ike govern-meat govern-meat waa eeasequentlv entitled to any rise drawn aw the anmhera en that Hut. As a matter of feat, out of tha IMO.OOO wort k-of tickets the government gov-ernment draw, dowa - only .4200,000 la prites . But despite this revenue,-the Cuban government is seriously contemplating gradaal abolition of tha lottery ia view of the enormous weight of evidence to show that it is 'impoverishing tba laboring la-boring classes and creating great distress dis-tress generally. |