Fourteen hundred. An expression shouted when a stranger wanders into the London Stock
Exchange. Years ago, it is said, the membership of the exchange remained for nearly two years at
1399 and it came to be a matter of interest as to who should be the fourteen hundredth. One day
an unmistakable stranger strolled into the exchange and a waggish member introduced him as No.
1400. The corresponding expression on the New York Stock Exchange is New Tennessee, which
see.