. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . ncia used to sell the privilege of thelottery by public auction, and it sometimes fetched as much as45,000 piastres yearly. The purchaser engaged to give prizes for the (i) Come buy a little number In a garden!One of five other of a thousand! Come buy a little number Beside the flowers!Man with a thousand piastres, Woman with love! Tlie prizes with the truth. And the truth with the prizes;^Who will buy number thirty-three thousand?: Who wants a thousand good piastres? 216 MM
. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . ncia used to sell the privilege of thelottery by public auction, and it sometimes fetched as much as45,000 piastres yearly. The purchaser engaged to give prizes for the (i) Come buy a little number In a garden!One of five other of a thousand! Come buy a little number Beside the flowers!Man with a thousand piastres, Woman with love! Tlie prizes with the truth. And the truth with the prizes;^Who will buy number thirty-three thousand?: Who wants a thousand good piastres? 216 MMA. first twentv iiiimbers drawn, the highest behig a thousand, and thelowest fifty-five piastres. It happened not unfreqiiently that the lottery contractors so ma-naged matters as to secure the great majority of the prizes for them-selves, leaving little or nothing for the poor simpletons who hadhalf-starved themselves to save the means of buying tickets. Theseabuses and others besides at last induced the Beneficencia to keepthe lottery in its own hands, and thus give the public a certainty A suertero (ticket-seller) of the present day. The lottery is now drawn every month. The tickets are four realeseach and the highest prize is four thousand piastres. FACTS WHICH SHOW IMPERFECT CIVILIZATION. The want of a good police in the capital, and other causes whichspace will not allow us to enumerate, give no little annoyance tothe inhabitants. We will however only notice the following- incon-veniences: 1. The liberty left to the populace of carrying large burdens onthe foot-pavement, and of thus pushing ladies and gentlemen intothe gutters. 2. The being run against by a man carrying candles, fish, or LIMA. 217 other similar articles, and having ones coat soiled so as defy allcleaning. 3. Allowing asses laden with hay, bricks, or earth, to gallopalong the streets, knocking down old people and childnn who arcunable to get out of their way. 4. The being stopped by the follo
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