Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1883 — Run in Streaks. [ARTICLE]

Run in Streaks.

Accidents, like murders, suicides and crimes of all sorts, run in streaks. The phenomenon is as easily demonstrated by experience as it is apparently impossible of explanation, except on the philosopher’s theory that there is in all things appertaining to life a wave-like motion, like the regular swinging of the pendulum of a clock, which in itself is one of the unfathomable mysteries of existence, dimly discovered.but beyond the firm grasp of the human intellect. In case of suicide and violent crimes -the:unconscious imitativeness of diseased minds has been held to furnish an explanation, but it can be applied to accidents as little as to fires, which exhibit the same gregarious tendency. “It never rains but it pours,” is the statement of an experience common to all times.— New York World.