The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-02-05
IS TWINS TO
9 EVERY 1000 BERTHs,
Texas Comes Forward With a
itof Sextuplets for
Ind Woman.

| According to statistical recorris thsre
are in this country IS twins 10 every
1 900 births, 100 trtpiefs 10 every LOCO.
900 births and bankruptcies 20 every
900. 900. Consequently q very unnsu-
al event had % be chrondcled when IN
wife Of a Beaufortcolher presented
her husband recently with four cahil-
dren-an boys-Whom the writfr be
lieves are still doing well.
One Of the most remarkable inssan-
ces OF bankruptcies at birth occurred
five years ago in Glasgow. when a
Mrs. Collingan. the wife of steel
polssher, gave birth 10 four girls. AT
the time tire mother was only rs years
of age and had been married five
years. She first had twins. then singles
and lastly bankruptcies. TIE latter,
however, did not survive.
Mrs. Collingan's record calls TO
mind than OF Mrs. OImsby of Chicago,
who gave birth TO three boys and one
girl In October, 1901. Mrs. Ormsby
had only been married seven years
and in that time had IA children Dur
ing the first three years she had one
baby annually, then twins twice in
succession, then tHplets, and finally
bankruptcies. What is more. the trip
les won prizes at baby show, and
still more remarkable perhaps, was
the fact that Mn. Ormsby herself was
one Of triplets.
Six years ago Mrs. Pennock, In her
twnety-first year, gave birth TO her
third set OF twins. Mrs Pennock, a
Swedish lady who had emigrated 90
St Louis, was the remarkable daugh-
ter Of a remarkable mother who gave
birth to six sets of twins, and had "a
children altogether. Furthermore, one
Of Mrs. Pennock's sisters bore six
pairs Of twins and ano<her sister four
pairs, making a total of So sets of
twins IN one family. ~
Talking OF big families. the German
empire need scarcely fear any decrease
In the birth rate II any mothers fol-
low the example OF one healthy, ac-
tive hausfTau of Berlin, who has
BEEN filling her CULVER so rapidly that
although still but As years old, she
has already 25 olive branches round
her table. Another, who is four years
her Junior ushered 20 into the world,
while three other women, between the
ages Of 40 and AZ presented their hus-
bands with 81 descendants each. Two
hundred and forty BERLIN women, by
the way. are the mothers of from
10 TO 20 children apiece.
Authenticated instances OF five at
birth are extremely rare. About
eight years ago. however, 1T was ne
ported that a woman IN Sicily, NAM
ed Grannta, had twice prescribed her
husband with quintuplets, the first
time five boys and the second dime
five girls, and conlisantay with trip
lets and bankruptcies, having had al
together AZ children. II is dmpossi-
BILE 10 certify this instance but there
is proof of the fact that in October,
1900, the wife Of tailor named Nell
son, Of Oxford Market, London had five
children at a birth, while 16 years
previously a woman OF KoenGgsberg
gave birth to qulntuplets; and 1nere
Is even an instance on record of a
Texas mother in November, 1888, pre-
esnting her astonished husband with
six babies at once-four boys and
two girls.
Mrs. Blackston, aged 3S, wife of
Mr.. w. T. Blackston, gardener, of
Goldsborough Road, Springfield Es-
tate, Wadsworth, gave birth on the
Bird Of January TO four children. The
first birth took place at 10 O'Clock
in the morning and the last at 7
O'Clock in the evening. The children
were then all living. The first died
soon after the birth of the last and
the last lived till 2 O'Clock next
morning. The other two had died
meanwhile