Lottery
the allotment or disposition of prizes by chance or lot; the drawing of lots. Lotteries are carried out by means of a number of tickets drawn ican novelist, wife of the publisher, D.
Lothrop; born in New Haven, Conn., in World War. 1844. She founded and is honorary president for life of the National Society of the Children of the American Revolution. She has written a long series of children's books, among which are: "So As by Fire" (1881); "The Fettibone at the same time, some of which entitle Name" (1883); "The Golden West" their owners to prizes, while the rest (1885) ; "The Minute-Man" (1886) ; are blanks. Lotteries are frequently re- "Dilly and the Captain" (1887); "Little Maid of Concord Town" (1898); "Adventures of Joel Pepper" (1900); "A Little Maid of Boston Town" (1910); "Our Davie Pepper" (1916); etc.