Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — Curious Coincidences. [ARTICLE]

Curious Coincidences.

“Speaking of curious coincidences of our everyday life, two little things happened a short time ago that are perhaps worthy of repeating,” said an insurance man to a New York Tribune writer. “My wife had long wished for anovile fork. We had used a table fork, and had then substituted a pair of candy tongs, but neither proved to be the right thing. A few evenings before Christmas my wife asked me to buy an olive fork, but I wasn’t overburdened with mopey at the time, and so, much against my will, I was obliged to ask her to wait a fettle. As I was about to step into the office building the next morning I saw directly in front of me a small jeweler’s box and Inside it there lay the Identical fork my wife wanted. I sent a note to the jeweler telling him the owner could have it by calling at my house. No dne ever came, and at present it is in active service on my dining-room table. “Some time before this a young girl who had become engaged to a chum of mine, wanted a small chased gold ring in lieu of a solitaire diamond.! In our quest wo entered a shop, and in one of the cases we saw a pretty ring. When we looked at it we noticed In th” inside some engraved initiate, which proved to be those of my chum and bls affianced. The salesman said that the ring had been ordered several months previous, but had never been called for. My friend never told the incident to his betrothed until after their marriage. Curious instances of coincidences, were they not?”