Show ROMANCE OF A LOTTERY For some time no claim was made for the chief prize of In the Brussels Exhibition lottery The identity identity iden I of the winning ticket has just been been established in a curious way A young Belgian miner who had purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased a ticket for the lottery was killed while at work through a stone falling on his head some days before the results were announced AccordIng According According Accord Accord- ing to custom he was burled buried In his best suit of clothes When the weeks passed and the prize remained unclaimed the young mans man's relations remembered that he lie had a lottery ticket in his waistcoat pocket and applied to the authorities for permission to exhume the body After some delay the request was granted and the winning ticket was found in the dead ma maps mans s 's pocket |