Show STRANGE coincidences some borne instances of the efficacy of obeying beer ord ordera the london spectator lately had a clever article entitled the tyranny myrann y 0 of f coincidence the example shown is of a lady who was dr driving i vang outside of athens athena when the horses were halted one of the team refused his oats the greek coachman insisted that the horse was under a spell the y young 0 ung english lady had ao an evil eye the man told miss symonds to spit that was the only cure tho the young woman was forced to go through the unladylike lil e performance and at once the horse took to his feed the coincidence riveted the chains of superstition upon n the driver tighter than ever ma many u y ca incidences coincidences of a similar character must occur to the reader here is a case A child was told to put a four leaf clover in his left shoe and was assured that he would be sure to find something the little boy did so and had hardly moved out of his tracks in a large grass grown pasture before he found an old half dollar of an ancient date evidently lost years before the child was not superstitious and fortunately the parents were not the matter matte r of coincidence was explained to h him i in and among other things he was ale plentifully supplied with four leaf clovers but he never found anything the origin of superstition associated with amulets or any material objects must owe its being to just such coincidences among those who are arc not educated it may be that the tyranny of coincidence does exist but it should not hold with 7 those hav having in g sound minds we all have h however 0 teter a dark chamber in our brains and it is there that the owls and bats of superstition flap their wings |