New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-07
CONDOLENCES.


CHumOeTSS COMNut, WHO uauc tne 1amOt
; comparison between Henry, of Englan,
and Alexander, of Greece, beginnin
There is a river in Macedon; and there i
also, moreover, a river at Monmouth; it
{ called Wye, at Monmouth; but it is out
my prains what is the name of the otht
river; but It's all one; tits 4 Ike as my fiji
gers is to my fingers, and there is salmon
in BOTH" was a lover of condolences, an
saw Figures in all things" Reversin
Fluellen's idea, some folks see all things
figures, or at least great deal more than
dreamed of in the mathematician's philos,
ply. Frenchmen are notably clever in thi
way, and they have managed to collect
goodly quantity of curious examples of nj
merical condolences connected with tn
history of their own land
Thus the number fourteen has been dis
covered to be of great historical import
The first king of France, named Henry
was consecrated on May IA, 1929; o.
May IA, 1888, the Parisians ros
against Henry Ill, and the last Henry wa
assassinated upon the fourteenth of May
1910. Henri de Bourbon was the fourteenth
king who bore the titles of France and Ma
yarre, and in his name we find just fourteen
letters. Henry ~. was born in Dec gmber
1853, the figures of which date added to
gethcr make fourteen, exactly fourteen cen
turtles, fourteen decades and fourteen years
! dItCI INC With VI SuTlSU. his vile
Margaret of Valois, was born on ehe four
teenth of May, 1859; the battle of Ivry was
| fought and won on the fourteenth of March
1890; on the fourteenth of May, in the same
| year, the white plumed hero was beaten in
| the faubourgs of Paris, and on the four
| teenth of November the Sixteen swore to
| die rather than obey his rule. On the same
| day, six years later, was registered the pa
pal bull empowering the legate of Rome to
70. e
to Henry's exclusion; on the fourteenth of
December, 1899, he was recenciled to the
Duke of Savoy, and on the fourteenth of
OF May, 1910, he was stabbed by Ravaillac
in the Rue de la Ferronnerie, the assassins
opportunity being supplied him BY the
stoppage of the royal carriage. owing to
the narrowness of the street, which, fifty
six years before, Henry III. had ordered to
be widened, his untitled order bearing date
that one date, that of the fourteenth of
May, plays a prominent part in this
catalogue of condolences, and upon that
same date, in 1913, Louis XIII died-the
hgules |, b, 4, 3, when added, again produc-
ing the magical number of fourteen. Louis
XIV. assembled the throne in 1913; died in
l7l5, equal to fourteen again; and lived to
the age OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and seven
making fourteen. Louis XIV. died in IVA,
r.,
It's extremes and the sum of its central
figures. Louis XVI. had reigned Just four
teen years when he summoned the States
General, destined to bring about the revolu-
ton: on the fourteenth of July, 1889, the
Bastiile was destroyed; and in 1914 the
B0urbons were restored-a year bearing the
all-lmportant number, not only in It's figures,
but likewise in their sum. On the four
tenth OF July, 1915, Napoleon informed
Al AflIt Inn al bot
upon Englands protection; on the four
teenth of July, 1870, diplomatic relations
were broken off between France and Prus-
sla; and lastly, on the fourteenth of August
Marshal Bazalne's army retrrated over the
Moselle before the advancing legions of Ger
many.
An American curiosity, under the head of
fourteen, is that of Franklin Pierce. four-
tenth President of the United States. with
fourteen letters IN his name and the addi-
,ional coincidence of +. F. being the initials |
both OF his name and his presidential sue |
,ession.
Twenty-one was afateful number to Louis |
XVI. He was married to Marie Antoinette. |
It Vienna, by the sending of the iIng, upon |
he twenty-tirst of April, l770; on the TWEEN /
y-1rst OF june the marriage was celebrated |
" farls by magnificent display of fire.
works, when panic ensued among the
lghtseers, and three thousand people were
more or less injured; on the twenty-first of
anuary, 1881, the birth of the dauphin was
Celebrated by a tete at the Hotel de Vile:
n the tWenty-trst of June, 1871, Louis made
rs memorable flight to Varennes, and he
led on the scatfold upon the twentv-first
January, 1893. Robespierre fell in 1894;
y adding the sum of these figures to the
ate Itself, we get 1915, when Napoleon's
tar sank forever at Waterloo; OPERATING
gain In the same way, we have 1880, when
he revolution deprived the elder branch of
he Bourbons OF the throne of France, to the
rofit of Louis Philippe. Louis Philippe
'as born IN 773, and was called to the
lrone IN 1880; the addition of |. ~ To
nat date makes 1S4S. Queen Amelie was
orn in 1852; by adding the figures of that
ate to 1881, we again get 1913; their mar
age took place in lSO9-add the component
cures to 1899, and the result il once more
$40, which saw the end of the Orleans
ynasty. Napoleon Ill was born in 1908.
ld crowned emperor in 1853; add 1853 to |
3, ., q, and we have 1870; the beautiful
ugenie was born in 1896; add ], 8. 9, to
'53, and again 1870 comes to the fo1e. to {
q Napoleon prisoner in Germany, his
lie and heir exiles in England, and
rance once more republic But
'ophecles based upon numerical coinci-
'nces are apt to disappoint believers in !
EN-, for sooner or later all such magical
quences of figures break down, as they /
oke down III the case of the popes. Plus 1
was succeeded by Plus Vii; seven and '
added to ten makes twenty-three-Piu l
Ii. died IN 1898; then came Leo XII. t
Give and seven and ten equal twenty-nine C
Leo died in 1929, and was succeeded by '
us VIII; eight, twelve and ten gives J
lrty. and Plus died i'll 1880, and made I
ON for Gregory XVI, who, as collector
these curl0sltIes says, ought to have died C
1881; but Gregory broke the charm by q
ing great deal too long; and candidates e
the tiara can no longer calculate with
y certainty when their chance will come.
even the belief founded upon expert h
ce, that no pope will ever reign twenty r
e years, seems likely to be upset by the h
stinate longevity of the first infallibIe oc- !,
pant of st. Peters chair, although as a A
nporal prince, perhaps, he has already D
used to reign. +
9 ghty-e eight was fatal number to the | o
larts. James Ill. was assassinated in a
3, after his defeat by his rebellious sub n
is at Sauchie Burn. Another James l.
t the crown of the three Kingdoms in n
y; and in 1873 Prince Charles Ed 81
I'd Casimir Stuart died at Rome. II
mbler individuals than kings and f.
teuders have been the subjects e.
condolences. Delphi, once b
'ular clown, had strong presentiment P
t he should die in the year Is; he did die re
the year 1928 at the age of eighty-eight 81
5he parish of ST. Martin, London. having | II
N born in that of st. Martin, Rome. In OF
9, a man is said to have died at Troyes W
ose name contained but three letters, as sy
left hand had but three fingers. He was #
n ON the thirty first of January; he lived "a
a room on the third story of number II
ee, in the street of the Three Blind Men. IA