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Show LgV" --www. w---WT"-.wbwr-V-VVlVtl,w,X-V4-l-VYVVt-S-V-w-.-VV--w-V-1,rlW;i I f Quriosities of GofneMence. & a , j OIJD ACTOX for many years kept a record of coil co-il - L Incidences. A very strange one occurred within s his own experience. I A "inuor had spread that his wife had drowned hcr-J hcr-J self She had done nothlug of( the kind, but It wns quite true that a Baroness Acton had drowuetj herself at Tcgcrnsce. where Lord nnd Lady Acton were Stay-, Stay-, , lug, and had drowned herself under their very wln-Thc wln-Thc Bl-nngfst of all coincidences noted by Lord I Acton concerned Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, who was ; ; murdered at the bottom of what Is now Primrose Hill. f but was then known as Grecnberry Hill, In Indon. Three men were hanged for the murder. Their i iames, respectively, were Green, Berry aud UUI. 1 In the list of coincidences pertaining to accidents a number of interesting examples are of authentic rec-y rec-y s Prd- It- has been pointed out that very often persons :i nave been surprised by events occurring, as it seemed. l at the immediate suggestiou of the victims. In the t 'xcltcment of the moment they have ofTcrcd "fa.te," , "dlviuc Providence" or some unkndwu law of assoela-i assoela-i tion of power of mind over matter as suitable, ex- I'laiialions, but when all is said calm reaeou rfiust classify such phenomena as pure coincidence. ' Some years ago a well known business man, who v.-us accustomed to make weekly trips botween an I En-stern city aud Chicago, had the uncomfortable cx-I cx-I nerience of having a wheel break Immediately under -.'ls seat while the train wasgoing at fuii spqed.' - It J j as only by the most fortuua"le of leaps that bf was -s. flwMHBBBHBHIBHMSZHHHBIHHHfi able to escape losing his life. Naturally this experience experi-ence made a very deep Impression upon him. It was almost a year later that he took the same train and, by a strange chance, was assigned the same chair. During a chat with a friend whom he had Just met he glanced oul of the window and recognized tile landscape and the very spot of his narrow escape.. Ills told the friend the story of the broken wheel. Just as he reached the climax of his recital, saying. "The cold shivers go down my back at the mere thought of It. There it Is agalul" Incredible as It may seem, the Identical accident happened ou the .same train, almost between the same two Gelds adjoining the track, aud the victim of this oddest of coincidences' barely escaped es-caped the same way as before. Such weird coincidences are alwnys difficult of credence, but no less an authority than Darwin, the naturalibt, mentions ono of the same kind, though diiferent in degree. Ono of a party whereof Darwin was a member was speaking of the earthquake of Talcabuauo, in Northern Chili, on which occn-Ioi the father had lost all his property and the uarr;tor hlm-fcelf hlm-fcelf had barely escaped with his life. Then, writes Darwin, there enbued a curious coincidence. A German, Ger-man, one of tho parly, got up, saying that ho would never sit Iu a room In those countries with the door shut, as, owing to his having done so, he ouoc nearly lost his life at Sopiapo. Accordingly, he 'opened the door. No sooner hud ho done so than hp oriorl out, "Here it comes again!" aud another shwU-'coiiimt-uced. The whole party escaped. |