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Show FACTS ABOUT FIGURES. SOME OF THE REMARKABLE STORIES THEY TELL. (folding Important Placea tn All Iirllg-3 Iirllg-3 loua ItUtory Number Three liar the Mot Striking Kecord Man la Number One. The whole world is looking out for number one. It is a very important number, and is employed oftener than any other. It is a component part of every odd and even number, nnd is the root and foundation of all numbers. There is one God and one heaven. We have one heart and one soul, one life and one death. Two is a number of great utility and pre-eminence. The Creator kept it in mind in many of his works. He created man and all the beasts in two sexes, and gave the humans two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, two arms, two hands, two legs, two feet and many other double members of utility to the body. Every one knows the value of a pair of jacks in a game of poker. All the passions are in pairs, such as joy and sadness, hopo and fear, love and hate. Health and sickness, living and dying, heat and cold, vice and virtue, knowledge and ignorance, truth and falsehood, and the like aro represented in duplicity. The number three is one of groat prominence promi-nence and significance- Shakespeare says: They say there is divinity in odd numbers, num-bers, either in nativity, chance or death. Number throe is tho first odd number, num-ber, and occurs in all religious writings writ-ings with striking frequency. God is triune, the Father, tho Son and Holy Ghost. There are some who find a trinity throughout nature, as St Patrick Pat-rick did in the shamrock. The triune plan of creation is seen in the earth, sea and air; the fish, birds and beasts; in the animal, mineral and vegetablo kingdoms; in the future, past and present time. Tlit-re have been three dispensations of truth tho patriarchal, patri-archal, the jewish, and tho christian. Adam and Noah each had three sons. There were three great patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The commandments com-mandments were delivered on the third day. Tho length of Solomon's temple was throe times its breadth. Elijah stretohed himself three times upon the widow s ehilu bctore cringing mm to life. David bowed three times before Jonathan. Jonah was in the whale's interior throe days. Three wise man came from the Eiist to adore the infant Savior, bringing with them three offerings. The child was found after three days in the temple. Three apostles were with the Savior at the Transfiguration, and three in the Garden Gar-den of Olives. Peter was asked three times "Lovestthou me?" and denied his master three times. Our Lord found the disciples sleeping three times in the garden. He was nailed to the cross with three nails, hung on the cross three hours, and rose again on the third day. The number three runs all through the story of the Bible. There are three theological virtues faith, hope and charity. The triangle is of the utmost importance in mathematics. In every syllogism there are three parts. That three is a lucky number Is a common saying. Franklin says that three removes are as bad as'a fire. In our great national game the rule is "three strikes and out" Christopher Columbus sailed in a fleet of three ships when ho discovered America, His discovery will be celebrated cele-brated by a world's exposition, to be held in a city composed of three sidos North, West and South Chicago. The iumber four was anciently esteemed es-teemed the most perfect of all, being the arithmetical mean between one and seven. Omah, the second caliph, said! "Four things cometh not back the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity." In nature there are four seasons and the four points of the compass. Forty, a multiple of four by ten, is one of the sacred numbers. The probation of our first parents in the Garden of Eden is supposed to have been forty years. Tho rain foil n.t thA rbiliifrn fnrtv du.va n 2 2 and nights and the water remained on the earth forty days. The days of embalming em-balming the dead were forty. Solomon's temple was forty cubits long. In It were ten lavers, each four cubits long and containing forty baths. Moses was forty years old when he fled Into the land of Midian, where he dwelt forty years. He was on Mount Sinai forty days and forty nights. The Israelites wandered in the wilderness forty years. The Savior fasted forty days and nights before entering upon his public life. The same time elapsed between the resurrection and the ascension. Seven is a number of great prominence promin-ence and singularity. There are seven planets, seven metals, seven colors and seven tastes. There are seven principle princi-ple virtues, three divine and four cardinal. car-dinal. There are seven days in the wek and seven ages of man. There are seven windows through which the ordinary senses are exercised; the two eyes, the two ears, the two nostrils and the mouth. Tho number seven occurs hundreds of times throughout tho Bible. So frequent in fact, is it employed em-ployed that to note the Instances where It Is used would be to recall the whole story of creation. There aro seven liberal arts, seven sciences and seven notes in music. The seventh son is a wonder and the seventh son of a seventh sev-enth son is simply mnrvolous in his healing powers. Nine Is the last of the significant digits and expresses the greatest amount that can be indicated by one figure. It is the second square number. num-ber. It is employed but little in the Scriptures. There are nine orders of angels. The Grecians taught that there were nine muses. The mystical and significant numbers formed by combinations combin-ations of the digits are almost without end and cannot here be mentioned, but a student of numbers will find much in to interest and instruct |