May 21.
We published recently a report of the finding of an account in the Prerogative Court at Canto bury of an inventory of Si Isaac Newton's London House.
It is becoming the custom for municipalities to affix notices to the houses, within their juri diction, "that have been once occupied by famous men. This not only gives pride of place to the locality but satisfies a legitimate curiosity to know more about those whose talents or destiny have rendered them of interest to posterity, We know how Newton towered above the common herd by reason of his|§ magnificent intellect, but we would fain know how be com: ported himself in the trifling things of daily life and whether he shared in the foibles "and peculiarities of lesser mortals Such knowledge makes us feel more akin to genius and, per: haps, kindles in us a gentle thrill that we, also, are not altogether devoid of the divine spark th gives to the great their immortality, Advertisements, in Chinese, of houses to let usually describe the desirable residence as being a "lucky" house, and he would have to be a very daring person who would have the temerity to rent a house that was said to be haunted or unlucky. In former times, when it was extremely difficult for missionaries to secure premises in certain cities, one of those "unlucky" houses was often palmed off on the unsuspecting foreigner by the wily owner who probably thought it was a case of setting one demon to fight another when he saw the foreign devil installed in his unremunerative property, But the idea of the lucky and unlucky house is not altogether superstition. Observation has demonstrated that a of deaths take place in a certain house. There is no apparent reason for these succeeding calamities; the house must therefore be unlucky. Unlucke it undoubtedly is, but the cause of its bad luck is probably that
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