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Show Odd Numbers. A hen is always given an odd number num-ber of eggs to be hatched. Why? There is no reason at all except superstition. su-perstition. Salutes from warships, forts, etc., are always given in odd numbers, yet no valid ,easii can be adduced. It is a remnant of the old "odd numbers are lucky" superstition. Virgil records all sorts of charms and spells practiced round odd numbers num-bers never even ones. Seven is the favorite biblical number, and old divines di-vines taught that it held a mystical perfection. It is an odd number. .Falslaff, iu the "M.'rry Wives," is entrapped for the third time. He himself him-self said: "They say there is a divinity divin-ity in odd numbers," because of the old belief in odd numbers. I'hysicians of other days always insisted in-sisted that "bleedings" should be in odd numbers one, three, five, etc., and never an even one. Loudon Mail. |