Noah had three sons.

Job had three friends.

Lightning is three-forked.

The " Glorious Fourth " means July 4, 1776.

Hesiod said the half is more than the whole.

Jonah remained for three days in the whale's belly.

The Prince of Wales' crest consists of three feathers.

There were three patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Barbarossa changes position in his sleep every seven years.

Charlemagne starts in his chair from sleep every seven years.

Olaf Redbeard, of Sweden, uncloses his eyes every seven years.

Three companions of Daniel were thrown into the fiery furnace.

Five is conspicuous in man - five fingers, five senses, five members.

Ogier the Dane stamps his iron mace on the floor every seven years.

The Five Kings of France was a term applied to the Directorate, 1795

The " City of Forty Times Forty Churches " is a name bestowed on Moscow.

Seven becomes sacred as it is composed of two good numbers, three and four.

In France, Belgium, Holland and Italy the national standards have three colors.

The melancholy Jacques' disquisition on " the seven ages of man " is well known.

The twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of Ezra contains all the letters of the alphabet except "j," which originally was the consonantal form of "i."

"Barry Cornwall, Poet," is an anagrammatic pseudonym for Bryan Waller Proctor.

For three days Daniel remained in the lions' den because he prayed three times a day.

Some scientists assert that there is a complete change in the human body every seven years.

The saying " six thrice or three dice," sprang from the fact that aces were callod dice, and didn't count.

There were seven great wonders of the world in classic times. They are described elsewhere in this volume.

Six has for its symbol two equilateral triangles placed base to base, representative of equilibrium and peace.

Placentius, a sixteenth century Dominican, wrote a Latin poem of 253 stanzas, every word of which begins with P.

"Get nymph; quiz sad brows; fix luck," containing all the letters of the alphabet, is capital advice to a young man.

The alphabet is inexhaustible in its possibilities. Some one calculates 620,448,401,733,239,439,369,000 transpositions.

In Alchemy the Sun is gold, the Moon silver, Mars iron, Mercury quicksilver, Saturn lead, Jupiter tin and Venus copper.

An Englishman, wishing to revile America, has been noted as speaking, " The 'ideous Hamerican 'abit of habusing haitch."

"The 'orn of the 'unter is 'eard on the 'ill " is a cockney version of the line from Mrs. Crawford's " Kathleen Mavourneen."

Seven sciences composed the Trivium and Quadrivium, viz., grammar, rhetoric, arid logic, music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy;

Note the three in "fish, flesh and fowl;" "morning, noon and night;" "water, snow and ice;" "heaven, earth and hell;" "red, white and blue."

Among the Chinese, heaven is odd, earth is even; heaven is round, earth is square. The numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, belong to yang (" heaven "); but 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, belong to yin ("earth ").

The Nine Worthy Women were: (1) Minerva, (2) Semiramis, (3) Tomyris, (4) Jael, (5) Deborah, (6) Judith, (7) Britomart, (8) Elizabeth or Isabella of Aragon, (9) Johanna of Naples.

Jericho fell on the seventh day. To accomplish this seven priests with seven trumpets march around the city once a day, and on the seventh day seven times - and the walls fell.

" Ha helephant heasily heats hat 'is hease Hunder humbrageous humbrella trees."

- Moore.

The seventy years' captivity of the Jews in Babylon, which lasted seventy years, began B.C. 584 and ended B.C. 515. They were carried into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar and released by Cyrus. This is also called "The Babylonish Captivity."

Ancient Rome, built on seven hills, surrounded by Servius Tullius with a line of fortifications, was called the seven-hilled city. The seven hills are the Pallatinus, the Capitolinus, the Quirinalis, the Caelius, the Aventinus, the Viminalis, and Esquilinus.

Seven times Christ spoke on the Cross: (1) " Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do;" (2) "To-day shalt thou be with Me in paradise;" (3) "Woman, behold thy son!" (4) "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" (5) "I thirst;" (6) "It is finished!" (7) " Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit."

The ten numerations are cabalistic doctrine. Three are called the superior, and seven the inferior numerations. The three superior are the supreme diadem, wisdom and understanding. These existed from all eternity. The seven inferior numerations are mercy, severity or might, beauty, victory, glory, stability and sovereignty.

" TheThree R's - reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic' - is the title of a toast given at a dinner in honor of the Board of Education by Sir Wm. Curtis, Bart., Lord Mayor of London, in 1795. In consequence of this toast the Lord Mayor has been handed down to posterity as an ignoramus, though those present recognized the jest clothed in the elisions.

One solution of Daniel's seventy weeks is to suppose it to begin with the decree of Darius given to Ezra B.C. 491, and the seventy weeks to mean seventy times seven years {i.e. four hundred and ninety), which would bring us to the birth of Christ, " when a finish was made to transgression, and an end put to sins by the reconciliation of the Messiah, the prince."

Our word alphabet is composed of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Alpha and Beta. These were adopted from the Phoenician Aleph and Beth, which mean respectively "ox" and "house"- referring no doubt to the shape of the letters - which show us the connection between the alphabet as we know it and the ancient cuneiform and hieroglyphic writing of Babylonia and Egypt.

Card-players who are continually bewailing their ill-luck of always receiving the same poor cards, will, perhaps, be reassured by knowing that the fifty-two cards, with thirteen to each of the four players, can be distributed in 53,644,737,756,488,792,839,237,440,000 different ways, so that there would still be a good stock of combinations to draw from, even if a man from Adam's time had devoted himself to no other occupation than that of playing at cards.

One gallon of water weighs ten pounds, so the number of gallons in the Pacific is over 200,000,000,000,000, an amount which would take more than 1,000,000 years to pass over the falls of Niagara. Yet, put into a sphere, the whole of the Pacific would only measure 726 miles across. The Atlantic could be contained bodily in the Pacific nearly three times. The number of cubic feet is 11,700,000,000,000,000,000, a number that would be ticked off by 1,000,000 clocks in 370,000 years.

Abracadabra is a magical word or formula abracadabra constructed out of the letters of the alphabet, abracadabr and supposed to be highly efficacious for the cure abracadab of agues and fevers. The letters were written so abracada as to form a triangle, capable of being read many a b r a c a d ways on a square piece of paper, which was folded a b r a c a or stitched into the form of a cross; worn as an a b r a c amulet in the bosom for nine days, and ultimately a b r a thrown backward before sunrise into a stream a b r running eastward. The adjoining is one way of a b arranging this mystic word. A

Writing is of two kinds - ideographic, in which signs represent ideas; and phonetic, in which signs represent sounds. Ideographic writing, which preceded phonetic writing, is illustrated by the picture-writing of the ancient Mexicans, and by the Chinese system of writing, which is strictly ideographic. The Phoenician and other Semitic nations derived their knowledge of writing from the Egyptians. The art was introduced from Phoenicia into Greece, and from Greece into Italy, whence it spread with the spread of Christianity.

The Jewish Sanhedrim, or national council, was constituted of a president called Nasi, a deputy, sub-deputy and seventy ordinary members. Their place of meeting was called The Pavement. The seventy sat in the form of a crescent, thirty-five on each side of the throne. In a.d. 32 the seventy were sent forth by Jesus to spread His mission. They were to go two by two, without purse, scrip or change of shoes, but were endowed with the power of working miracles. Seventy elders were appointed to assist Moses in the wilderness (Num. xi. 16, 17).

Seven Wise Men is the collective designation of a number of Greek sages, whose moral and social experience, according to the ancients, was embodied in certain brief aphorisms. Their names, as usually given, and their characteristic aphorisms are as follows: Solon of Athens - "Nothing in excess; " Thales of Miletus - "Suretyship brings ruin; " Pittacus of Mitylene - "Know thine opportunity;" Bias of Priene, in Caria - "Too many workers spoil the work." Chilon of Sparta - "Know thyself; "Cleobulus, tyrant of Lindus, in Rhodes - "Moderation is the chief good; " and Periander, tyrant of Corinth - "Forethought in all things."

Here is another of the curious ones: Multiply a number composed of the nine digits, 123,456,789, by 45, and the product is 5,555,555,505. Reverse the figures in the multiplier 54, and the product is 6,666,666,606. Reverse the multiplicand to 987,654,321), and multiply by 45, and the product is 44,444,444,445. Reverse the multiplier to 54, and the product is 53,333,333,334. The first and last figures are the multiplier. Use half the multiplier or 27, and the product is 26,666,666,667. The first and last figures are the multiplier. Reverse the figures of the multiplier to 72, and the product is 71,111,111,112, the first and last being the multiplier.