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Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 6, 6 July 1866, Page 2

Curious Coincidence. — "We take the following from the London Spectator: — " There is a stance man in existence who, by the laws of chance, must in all probability have spent halt* his lifetime in studying; arithmetical coincidences, and has at last been rewarded by finding such a one as he might have hunted for through half a century without discovering. The Pall Mall Gazette publishes the observations of a correspondent on a pair of triple coincidences, which may (very unlikely) become one of the quadruple coincidences, between the figures of dates affecting the life of Louis Philippe and the same dates for the life of Louis Napoleon : — Louis Philippe Louis Napoleon Ascended the throne in Proclaimed Emperor in 1330 1830 1830 1852 1852 1852 _ 1 . 1 ol w aJO *S 2 7 ° g 7 l a ß *S-£B°. 38^8 25 75 S 8 | 0 °-3o^^2'g 5 £~ 3£& 2 3 9 8 j=^ 6 S 3 134S IS4B 18-48 1869 18K9 1869 in which year he abdicated in which year — ? Here the treble coincidences that are certain is that the date oi'the birtlf, of the wife's birth, and of the marriage of eacli monarch, when added in a vertical column to the hist figure of the date of his coining to the throne, produce the same answer for each addition, though., of course, a different answer for the two monarchs. The fourth coincidence, not yet verefied, and, of course, in the highest; degree improbable, which it suggests, is that the date so obtained in the Emperor's case should be the date of a similar event to that which this process gave in Louis Philippe's case. If that high improbability should happen, mathematicians would certainly assert that it was mathematically much more likely than not that there was a reason for this arithmetical coincidence, though what reason it would be difficult for the greatest wisdom to conjecture." Had Him There* — A clerk in a New York jner* canfeile establishment relates a colloquy from which, a sprightly youth in thosatno store came out second best. A poor boy etme along with his machine, inquiring, " Any knives or luusora to grind r" " Don't think ire have," replied tho young geutlomen, facetiously j but can't you sharpen Trite) P" "STee, if j-ouy'b got uny" >vw the prompt < msmWM~*4W>'Mr} HM f >