Show SINGULAR concerning some really odd pen henings penin ings cs and others not nearly so Cl clorious as they seem IN NY Y world of coincidences it may bensaid be said as of dreams and considering the immense number of human beings upon this earth aith and the multitudinous points at which their existences intersect ozie another the ponder wonder is not that there are so many striking coincidences but that thero ire so few theeb the exchanges of the world have during the past few months recorded a large number of coincidences some of which at least leas were worth noticing on the ground of their singularity larity one of the most curious happened only a few days ago when d a letter was sent to the sheriff of dunn county wis a authorizing athor iz aug the atia attachment climent of the stock of of charles Cli arles hudson dry goods dealer id traneka ty aneka who would have thought the letter would go by mistake to dane county that in dane county there would be a place called mannakee Wanna Wann kec akee and that among its residents there would bo be found a charles hudson a dry goods merchant whose stock would 01 of course co urse be attached charles 0 park of demport searsport Sear Sem sport port ale captain of the summer R J mead had not sean his brother jeremiah iab G park captain of themert th the alert eXert for six year nor his brother samuel park on board the same vessel for twelve years but bk the fates ordained that the two vessels should should be becalmed within a few cables length of each other for a whole day off the coast coas of madagascar in the small town of zeitz in in prussian saxony lived two wom women en frau schmidt and frau feustel occupying adjoining rooms in the same house in february 1881 each was made on the same day the mother of triplets all boys this was a decidedly curious coincidence in births the rev mr B busch euseb of winona minn whose five children were all born on sunday has been the subject act of some newspaper paragraphs h 1 tut but his case is less noteworthy tt than a that of a resident of middletown conn three of ft hose whose four children have the same birthday noveis her ber 16 A less remarkable coincidence is noted in the case of mrs william ali alln of 1 blount auburn ohio who celebrated on one day the anniversary niver sary of her till th of nor her wedding and of the th birth of a g grandi rand child wh why should accident have or dainey that the dameco bame company in al of minstrels should haye have visited washington h on the day lay that president garfield was inaugurated on the day that his remains were borne in in state to the capitol and on the day that the was pronounced I 1 upon hita by mr bidaine 2 an odd coincidence was reported not long a ngo in in these column columns in 1862 a fire gl destroyed troyed the city of kingston jamaica on the day lay of the fire aaron decordova Cordova dc was born dorn aaron deCor dovas grandfather was the first man on the island who erected a building after the fire liro months ago in the sama place tl the pic present zent aaron decordova w was as the first tint mancho man who erected a building i i nt it t was a curious fate which ordained that the son of the austrian baron carl von hoffr and andreas hafers great grandson should perish by a bullet dia discharged charged during a rine rifle match being the fifth I 1 member of this thia distinguished P faintly ami slain by such uch a wound three thice years ago of alfo killed joseph melody lut was ae acquitted quitted on the gr ground i aund of ins insanity a ill it 7 T two wo years cars later tile teron on the same day and the faine hour he lie received a fatal sunstroke on the same tame spot where he committed the crime Coincide coincidences ikes relative to deaths are numerous if not always very I 1 noteworthy anthe on the 0 of fat april T 1882 edward goss was buried buric im at troy in this state irom from the same house at which in 1870 tho the same sadiq clergymen had buried his brother james both brothers died lied on iho ilie same day odthe of the month and at the same hour on tho ath of april at philadelphia occurred a curious series of what the E english newspapers drs delight to call fatalities As mrs re w was aa going to bed she heard a in the room af dofher her sister mrs airs watson and running iv iu found her liar gasping for breath die 11 doctor and their third lister sister mrs smith was sent for and arrived in a few minutes in a very few moments chesick the sick woman died of an attack of apoplexy and at intervals of ten minutes mrs an and d mrs smith fell dead on the floor of the same apartment a succession cession of deaths which would leave have been betzi voted absurd in a sen sensational aati onal melodrama it is buly a few weeks ago in 1 this city Pity Mrs arthur Fors forshay liay died while pra preparing paring to attend her husbands fune funeral ral eliav having ng been apparently in the best of health but that did not deserve to be cited as a singular ain gular coincide coincidence ice T 1 I the deaths on Ne Years day 1881 of mayor S B Shack for d oj ol 01 cha chelsea ea mass and of his only son charles B of dover N H moro mora nearly fulfilled tho the condition of a chous curious coincidence As to deaths which take place simultaneously simultaneous lynor or at an interval of a few minutes or a few hours there is really not eff much in tho the coincidence ci as people often make out in the first place there is is an ap apparently ar irresistible tendency to falsify F if the record by a few houra or a few minutes cs so as to make a coincidence more morn striking in the second when the two pers persona ons are very aldand old and have long been in in feeble health the announcement of the death of or the first is altogether likely to bring about tho the death of the second either by a positive tiye beshock chock or by removing the incentive to life or by creating an absolute desire to depart some cases may bedworth bo be worth reproducing from the worlds ayo exchanges chan es at misses asses fanny marsdon and sally marston sisters of north hampton t on N IL ono one aged 79 years and the other 82 died dio not long ago with i in five hours of each other at albion me mr and mrs noah paul aged respectively 86 and 87 and a half died within a day of each other at wheeling va mrs jacob house died one day at the age of 73 and her husband who was waa two years her senior died on tho the morrow the alleged coincidence in t his case was rendered less extraordinary by the fact that they had always desired to die on the same day and that the surviving partner of more than half a century of wedded life refused to take food after hearing of his cifes death this case recalls that of the parents of lady burdett coutta coutts who were ivere buried in the same grave gruye at burlington iowa a few days ago a young married woman named aalund died of consumption still younger sister fell fal across tho the bed and died almost instantly but in this case there was a bomp complication 1 lea of lun lung 0 disease with heart trouble so that phd younger wo we mans death was not so much to be wondered at this is much more like a singular coincidence dr j james abernathy of gaston N C and mr john P abernathy who resided within fiyo miles of that town they were not related in blood were born on the same day in 1812 married twin sisters on tho the same day dayi and died lied on the same day in 1882 it will however be seen that the second point dence is not in reality so very surprising since nothing would be more natural than for the twin sisters to insi insist I 1 S t on being married at tit the same tune apparently lyas as curious a coincidence i 1 du cefell fell under the observation of the writer a few months since he was V a acquainted aint edwith with a resident of new ark york whose family name Is is almost aft as rare as that of disraeli on seeing that name in tho the list of promoters of a social movement which bas attracted tie tle attention of but a handful of men nien in the united states he be rotc wrote and di discovered co vered that there were two bearers of the same family and christian names that they were not even countrymen but that both were officers in the same association and that they had married sisters in this case when the facts aro are looked into tha the coincidence is easily explained pla ined one bearer of the name learning earn ingco ofte existence pf af his namesake bad had made his big acquaintance and the eddit oddity of the original circumstances ha had drawn t them em closely together that one become acquainted wit with the friends of the ot other and gild taka an sin active interest in ir the e subjects which attracted him was alwes tout fout to bo be expected where the really long od odds a would have come in would havo have been at an antecedent period in the history of the women whom they married it seemed by no means out of the way ten years ago that two enterprising young youn men in england and gc scotland should both go to oll of the new world once t there bere iere it was almost certain that the directory or the postman would brin bring 9 them t together 0 ether and the rest rut wai was reamona bly probable but how mu much ch less likely it would b have ava seemed that the two sisters were to espouse namesakes not related to each other and the onla bearers of their name in the city the only difference ei jeo was wag per perhaps that it was reasonably certain that A B I 1 and A ba B 2 would marry sisters though i it t was not so easy tu to tell what pair of sisters |