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Show THE "THIRTrEN" SUPERSTITION.. Col. John MrKlroy, an adept In war alntlstlca, contrilnitea figure to ahow that the "silly auperaltitlnn" attaching; attach-ing; to tho nutnhor thirteen flnda no Justification In the records of tho civil war. "It la In evidence Just now la the tlreaomo clatter about tho republican repub-lican convention being the thirteenth In the history uf too organization." The war record ahow, according to Col, McKlroy'a curtoua ' deductions, that the total loss of the thirty-one regiments and butteries hearing the designation thirteen was 5.SU4. that of the same number of r Klments and batterle numbered twelve was u,"7S, while that of those numbered fourteen was 7,075. Not a regiment or battery bat-tery bearing the number thirteen had any special III luck, while most uf them escaped with amall loss. Philadelphia Phila-delphia Ledger. |