Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-24
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C~olucidencea names are of such fire.
quent Occurren as to be familiar; but
some Of them asurprising. Daniel Web
ster married Cheriue lie Roy. A few
months since in uston a suit was noticed,
the parties to with were Daniel Webster
aud Catherine L9oY. The First Unita-
rian Church Of theity of Baltimore was
attended for morehan 40 years by q gen.
tlemau recently ceased. From that
pulpit he heard iscourses by Doctors
Furness, Bellows, Sparks, Burnap and
Greenwood. Two were settled pas
tors; the Others, eminent men who
appeared on varus occasions. In
Guilford, COnnectic, till within a few
years the Second Congregational Church
had had but three paOrs in its entire his
tory-ROot, Wood ii Chapman. This
society resulted from disturbance in the
First Church, and WIN Mr.. Root was
about To be Installed ol of the members
OF the First Church, vii equal bitterness
and wit, suggested a te4 And | saw the
wicked taking root" 'Ot many years
since the city OF New Yk had attention
drawn to the names OF foI great criminals
whose names contradictefheir character.
Charles Peace who had psonated a cler.
lyman, was hung for mur.r in England;
Angel was the name of q qaulting CASH
Ter; John Hope, one of thtrobbers of the
Manhattan hank; and Rev. ohm Love was
dcpOsed for crime. On the ay that Hon.
John P. Hale died the scholer John p.
Hale ran ashore on q reef cald Norman's
Woe. When James Buchana was Presi-
dent of the United States "a SIP of wal was
named after his niece, the accomplished
Miss Harriet Lane. The offer in COM
mand was Henry Wainwright An acci-
dent happened to that vess, about the
time that Henry wainwright, OF
Euglaud, murdered a Miss Hsiet Lane.
The papers that announced the ecident to
the ship gave in another column the de.
tails of the murder. The sulrstitions
concerning dates occasionally exhibit re-
markable condolences. Thirtylye SOW
ereiens have assembled the Englia throne
since the time of William the Coqueror,
every month except May witnesSg the
coronation OF n or more; that moth not
one. In the lives of men extraordinary
colncidences often occur on particula days
of the week.
Impressive condolences have occnr?d in
the words Of parts performed by acts in
their last appearance on the stage precious
to death or attacks Of fatal illness. The
is true Of c!ergymeu whose text for
their last sermons, aad frequently the Hry
words which they uttered before beng
stricken with paralysis or apoplexy, hive
been s~ingularly appropriate. How oisu
resemblances of persons in no way relatd
confuse thequestion Ofidentity. Detective
frt uuentIy uurayel difficult pgOblems Ia
their skill and sagacity, but owe thei
successes in many eases to chance CONC
dences. Such happenings are OF assist
auce to lawyers, and by them desperat
cases are saved. Every lawyer of larg
practice has q list of anecdotes of this sor
with which he delights young Limbs q
the law" A q general proposition, tn
law of condolences is that when two phe
nomena always coincide they are eithe
connected as cause and effect, or are tn
effect OF n common cIuSa." But Il the.
do not always coincide, neither of these i
They may then be the effects
separate causes working in their respecoy
The first question Is: Do b pne
nomena always coincide? The importane
Of a wide generaliz ition IS often lost sigh
Of, and one conclusions are aSserte'
with all the confidence of demonstration
A physician who lives near the sea say
that during the past FIVE years he has note
the hour and minute Of death Of 80 patients
and that every one has ''gone out with tn
save four, who died suddenly b.
accident. Yet about - years ago a write
in the English Quarterly Rerier Claimed
to have ascertained the hour o
death in $500 instances of all ages
His observations show the maximum hou
Of death is from 5 to 6 o'clock q. m, whei
it il 40 per cent above the average; tn
next during the hour before midnight
when il is 25 per cent. in excess Bet~eel
3 and 10 o'clock in the morning it Is IL
per cent. above, but from 10 8 m. toS pm
il is I6i per cent below the average
From 3 to 7 in the afternoon the deaths rls
to 81 per cent. above the average and thei
fall from that hour 10 IL p. m, averagini
81 per cent. below mean. 1t Is prooaol
that both these observations are WORTHLESS
in view Of the small number OF instance
covered. 1t is clear that they do mot con
cur, yet taken separately, each would seen
conclusive.