Show GOVERNMENT FOSTERED LOT government lotteries having gono out of fashion in this country it Is always with a feeling of surp riso that americans read of those fostered by foreign government to many of which state lotteries are a financial godsend in italy they bring the government in a sum ot nearly pounds a year in prussia the profits of ho public lottery amount to GOO pounds the dutch government gets the alco sum of pounds profit out of its lottery portugal makes about pounds in this way denmark rakes in a profit ol 01 pounds and in brazil where the government doea not itself run the lottery but collects a tax on tho receipts of private lotteries the amount raised Is pounds |