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insignia on collar of blouse and on hat. They are armed with Remington 
carbines, caliber 7.7 mm. Saddle, bridle and trappings are of russet leather; 
they own their own horses. The guards are neat in dress and manly in 
bearing, and one gets the impression that the country is well policed. 
Among the curiosities of the archives in La Fuerza are some old lottery 
tickets which are reminders of the day when the Royal Lottery of the Ever 
Faithful Island of Cuba was an estab¬ 
lished institution. The illustration 
shows in reduced size a ticket of the 
year 1843. There were monthly draw¬ 
ings with a regular prize list of 
$120,000, which once a year was in¬ 
creased to $180,000. The lottery was a 
State institution, and yielded to the 
Spanish Crown a revenue of $2,000,000 
a year. This is a picture of a Havana 
a ROYAL LOTTERY ticket. Sunday in the days of the lottery: 
“Lottery tickets are vended at every corner. The seller rends the air with 
his cries of temptation to the passing throng, each of whom he earnestly 
assures is certain to realize enormous pecuniary returns by the smallest 
investment in tickets or portions of tickets, which he holds in sheets, while 
he brandishes a huge pair of scissors ready to cut them in any desired 
proportion.” The lottery was freely patronized by the first mercantile 
houses, which had their names registered for a certain number of tickets 
| Ooevaefe billet^parael sorteo trescientos setent&y. cm- g 
3 co, que se ha de celebrar el dia 3 de octubce de 1843. | 
8 Vale cualio reales . | 
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STREET MERCHANTS. 
