EXAMPLES OF HOW NUMBERS RECUR IN LIVES

Among my collection on the influence of numbers in connection with events, I have many that are decidedly interesting.

The following letter relates to a curious coincidence concerning numbers:

DEAR SIR, -

I should like to give some facts about the No.7. I was born on the 7th day of the 7th month; I was never ill until my 7th birthday, I never failed in an examination until my 7th, and the 7th girl I proposed to accepted me. Probably I was the 7th man who proposed to her.

I have an uncle who has been exceptionally unlucky in his experience of No.8631. His wife was killed in a railway accident in a carriage numbered 8,631; he himself broke a leg in a cab smash the cab running into him being no.8631; and his four children died at the ages of 8, 6, 3 and 1 respectively.

Yours faithfully

A.B. FRENCH.
SIR ALMA-TADEMA AND NUMBERS

The following appeared in many of the London newspapers:

Sir Alma-Tadema, the famous artist, says his important number is 17. he was 17 when he first met his wife;

their first house had that number; it was on August 17th that the work or rebuilding his home began, and on November 17th that he took up his residence there. His second marriage was in 1871 – and here 17 is the result of the figures added together. His house, in the artistic quarter of St. John’s Wood, was again a multiple account for the 17th, which gives the single number 8, having such importance in his life.

KING EDWARD VII AND NUMBERS

Kind Edward was born on the 9th November in a month that is called in Astrology “the second house of Mars” and governed by 9, the number of Mars.

His marriage took place in the year 1863, which numbers added to the other make 9; he was to have been crowned on the 27th of June, which figures added together make 9, and he was actually crowned on August 9th.

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