The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-23

tistics for more recent times, and you
won't accept the conclusions of an interest
ed indlviduaD the way they are bunched
becomes even more apparent Between
Dec. %, 1889, and Jan. q. 1890, there were
three railway accidents, involving consd-
eTable loss of fife, and In the time from
July 10 Aug. 6, 1891, three more, follow
ed by a fourth Aug. 25. a period Of COM
paratie immunity followed until May 4,
1882, but in the month succeeding that there
were also three, followed by fourth on
June %. Again there was an interval, and
then came three between Sep. and Sept.
81 1892. followed by a fourth, as usual,
about month later. After that no other
big one appears in the list until August
of the following year. If that isn't bunch
ing things l cont know what il Is, and
furthermore il isn't open to the objection
usually raised when recent affairs of more
local Importance are cited that 1t just
happened so this time"
THAT showing is rather extraordinary,
admitted the matter-of-fact man.
Il haven't the statistics for fires went
on the theorizer but any fireman will up
hold the truth of my contention. Perhaps it
is just as well to contire myself 10 the big
ger affairs, anyway. They are more con-
vincing. I SUPPOSE it never occurred 10
you that revolutions come in punches,
too"
do they?"
well, I should say go There are iso-
lated cases, of course, but they usually
come in a lump For instance, in the three
years between 1875 and 1898 there were rev.
olutions in Holland, Poland, Venice and
Rome. and eleven or twelve years later
Sweden and Holland enjoyed a little sim
liar excitement within a year or two of
each other. Then there was quiet until
1880 when in that and the following year
POLAND, the Netherlands, Brunswick,
France and Brazil all got in action, and
just seventeent years later Hungary
France and Rome amused themselves with
that kind of fighting, all in the same year
With the single exception of another in
France there were no more revolutions un-
til 1859, when Italy started the ball rolling
again, and was followed between that date
and 1860 by the United States. the Papal
States and Spain. Isn't that punching the
hits, as a baseball crank would put it?'
4 confess IL is
"Then take the attempted assassinations
of rulers and others high in public life. The
eighteenth century was comparatively free
from them, and so was the first half of the
nine tenth There were seven in the fifty
years preceding the year 1900, one in 1901.
and none between 1901 and 1896. Then they
began, and there were several small
lunches of them in the period intervening
before 1851. "A bigger bunch came along
between 1900 ana 1905, duflnS WHicu llii"
seven attempts were made on the lives of
rulers or prime ministers The biggest
bunch, however, was in the six years be-
| tween 1876 and 1882 when no fewer than
| seventeen attempted transformations are
! recorded. Between 1882 and 1887 there were
none but two annually are recorded for
| the years 1887, 1888 and 1889. Again there was
an interval until 1894, when two are men
| toned, with one for the following year"
How do you account for it?' asked the
matter-of-fact man.
Il don't account for It," returned the
other Il am merely giving facts. Let
some one else try to tell why things come
in punches. All l know is that they do.
And the same rule holds good in ali MI
nor happenings in a smaller way. 1t is
true of the deaths of noted men as well as
of accidents and crime. All such things are
| punched. Aren't they?"
They surely seem TO be"