Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — Brides in a Lottery. [ARTICLE]

Brides in a Lottery.

Smolensk in Russia has a peculiar lottery four times a year. A young girl Is raffled for in 5,000 one-ruble shares. The winner marries the girl and receives the money from the lottery as her dowry. If he prefers, he may assign her and the dowry to some one else. Sometime® the girl refuses to marry the winner, In which case the money from the lottery is divided between them. Gross earnings of the Chicago Great Western Railway for the second week of July were $86,410.07, an increase, Compared with $73,562,16 for the same week last year, of $12,847.91.