Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-14

effect that at Dayton, IN the State OF ONO,
a German woman was taken i'll while
passing through the town, and that the
result of the illness was in the form Of
six children, which she placed together
in basket. A lady of character saw aud
counted the children, and was told by
the mother they we're one birth. Per
haps most persons will consider that more
, reliable proof THAI this is neces-
sary to warrant one in giving ere.
dence to the statement. We find
in "Aubrey's Natural History OF Wilt
SHIRE" published two centuries ego, a
statement to the effect that Edith Don
bham, of that county, had seven children
at birth. Whether septuplets or seven
fold triplets are the more wonderful, 1T
would not be easy to decide, but an old
volume of the "Memoires de PAcademic
Franchise" solemnly tells us that ba-
ker's wife at Paris had triplet children
every year for seven years in succession.
Happy baker But this, according to a
Brussels journal, was actually exceeded In
1851, when a bridesmaids wife, had for
the eighth time, three children at a birth
twenty four of them in eight births In
nine years; "a desperate case for the hus-
band" as the journalist sympathetlcally
remarked, "who desired to transmit his
family name to his offspring, for theywere
all girls"
Six, seven, are not these numbers high
enough? We shall see. The Stanford
Mercuru few years ago recorded eight
children at one birth, three boys and five
girls, but the paragraphist had to go to
Trumbull county in Ohio for the locality.
There is a statement in the Journal des
Savants, on the authority Of M. Seignette
to the effect that woman at Rochelle
had nine children at birth, all stillborn.
In 1851 a wonder working rumor spread
about Sheffield concerning the appearance
of ten children at birth. An old dame,
Widow Platts, bern in 1871, stated that
she was one of The ten, and declared
her mother had told her so. No other
corroborating evidence was attainable
than an old copy of Leeds Mercury, quot
ing letter received from Sheffield, with
the additional statement that nine OF the
decuplets were stillborn.
DON'T BELIEVE IT.
But oh! what bouncer was that in a
London daily paper, assigning to Hin
doc woman at Calcutta twenty-one boys
at a birth! And in what sense are we to
interpret an entry in the Geaatlemdn's
Magazine, to the effect that Mrs. Lilly, of
Grantham, s'was twice mother of twenty
two children?" Either that there were
forty-fopr babies at two births, or that
she was twice married and had in all
twenty-five children. We prefer to be-
lieve the latter, although the words seem
to imply the former. Eclipsing every
other marvel of this peculiar class IS the
assertion that Dutch lady, the countess
of Hennesby, had exactly 365 children at
birth. The story goes that this lady on
one occasion discourteously rebuked a
woman who asked for aims, and said
something which lrritated her to express
a wish that the lady might soon have as
many children as there are days. in the
year, and so it was. Pepys declares that,
when at Utrecht, he ''saw the hill where
they say the house stood where they were
born"--a kind of evidence that just suit
ed gossip Samuel. An ingenious conjec-
ture has been haZarded that the Interview
may have taken place on the Sd of Janu
airy, when the year was three days old,
and that the birth consisted of triplets.
CHANGING at the above strange recitals
we perceive that, which ever of them are
true or partly true, they do not prove any
abnormal increase in the sum total of hu
mainly The poor paintings are either
stillborn or mostly die at an early age. In
other words, large family, a numerous
progeny, ''quiver full of arrows does
not depend on having great number of
children at birth so much as on the total
number born to the parent or parents du-
ring the whole of their married life.