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Show STRANGE COINCIDENCES J Thr la somethlnc about a coinct4Mic j that DT.r falta to tirkl our astonish-mit. astonish-mit. We all know that whoa thai ara a hundred chanraa to on that a thins; won t happen thsra still remain on rhaneo to a hundred that It will. Tat when that om chanco turns up wo fasp with undisguised anmsement and refuse ' to beltove that It U t coinrtdenr at all. '"Ah. ah!" wa say at .once. "Theca la ' mora In this than meets (he aye." Cotncldent-ee ahould bo narrated al ways. Passed on from friend to friend "sot to vftce" of a mmmtr event tie while tha et"trlc fan whtsea and tha cracked Ire tinkles. Coincidences ahould be pre- -faa-ed alwaya with such remarks aa this: "Of course, you can't be expected to be llevo litis, but It actually happened. On my word It did." Or: "On my honor this Is actually the truth. Or: Tou can betlere this or not aa you cbooae, but" After this fashion they have told al-ready al-ready In a certain neighborhood set down on lons; Island tlis story of the man who bought a lottery U taet at the French exposition. His mother-in-law waa a good soul. If there waa one thins; on earth she abhorred H waa lotteries. She used to writ to the governor of Iouhil-ana, Iouhil-ana, once evr year and suggest he suppress sup-press the lotteries In New Orleans. Well, aa luck would have It. she strolled Into John's office and found that lottery ttckt, mt ao Ions after he bad reached home rom Paris. "What la this thing. John?" she asked, edt'ist tng her ptnoe-nea. John knew that she knew, but he did ' what he could, and the outcome ahould be a leason aever to give way to dlecowr-ajfement. dlecowr-ajfement. "Tht." aaid fohn. 1e the secret num-ber num-ber on the inside of my new typewriter " John a mother-in-law turned up the typewriter type-writer and lookei, J oh braced himself and waited. "Why. I do beg yoex eardonr aaid John's mot her - in-Is w. After she hsd gone John went over to the desk, turned up that typewriter him- BJ4W slf and looked. "Of omirse you won't . V. believe It," says the Ing Islander; "t ' I shouldn't myself, but the truth Is those numbers. thetPrench lottery ticket and the inside number on John a new typewriter type-writer were the same the seme the same M but on figure, and that was an eight on the typewriter that wma blurred to look like the siw on the lottery tlrket Aad you cent best that." eatd the Leone; Islander, -and - paeeed the ehlpped Ice. New York Evening Sua. |