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Show The Lottery In Spain. The great prize in the Spanish National Na-tional lottery was won by a butcher at Saragossa, who seems to have borne his stroke of fortune in a very proper spirit. His total gain would have amounted to about f 350,000 had he taken the whole risk himself, but he had split up his ticket among a couple of hundred partners part-ners in varying proportions, so that his own share is not so considerable. However, How-ever, he generously gave $400 to the official who paid the money, and $200 to a blind man who shouted out the lucky number at the door of the office, his next care being to distribute meat gratis to everybody living in his quarter quar-ter of the town. Not a few stories are told in the Spanish papers as to the effect ef-fect on different individuals of this sudden sud-den bit of luck. One of the beneficiaries was a nurse in the family of a poverty stricken infantry captain who rarely paid her wages. On the receipt of the $10,000 that fell to her share she at once handed the amount over to her master, exclaiming, "You shall not know want after today. We can all of us live on the money." Paris Herald. |