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SIGNOR LUZZATTPS LOTTERY SCHEME Rignov Luigi Luzzatti a wellknown Italian finan ¬ cier has elalijorateiVa great idea for a world lottery which he says would enalle the Allies to pay off a jjreat portion of their war debt He proposes that tilt tickets should be 20 each payable in ten nuiuthly instalments working out roughly at 50 ents a we k and so as yoii may say easily within the reach of all allSignbr Signbr LuzzattiieckonK that three hundred million people would take OIH or more tickets making up total receipts p JO00000000 Avhich sum even aft p a liberal allowanevs for prize money would cover a large percentage of the Allies war debts Itiis suggested that tliere should bo a first prize of 4 200000 hundred prizes of 300000 a hundred of 200000 and i large number of lesser amount