The Washington herald., 1909-05-09
REMARKABLE BIRTH RECORD.
auintupIets and euadruDIets-EishS
of Latter 20 Every Million.


According to statistical records. there
are In this country eighteen twins 10
every 1890 births. $50 triplets 10 every
100000 births and eight quadruplets TO
every l,00e,0Oo. says Tit-Blts. Consequent
ly very unusual event had 10 be chron-
ieled when the wife Of a Beaufort collier
presented her husband recently with four
ehil6ren-ail boys-whom the writer be-
lieves are stiH doing well.
One OF the most remarkable instances
OF Guadruplets at birth occurred five
years ago, in Glasgow. when a Mrs.
Coiiingaa, the wife Of a steel poiisher.
gave birth to four girls. At the tine the
mother was only twenty-eight years old.
and had been married I'VE years. She
frst had twins, then singles. and lastly
quanrupiets- The latter. however. did not
survive
/ MIS- CollingaR's record calls to mind
mat OF Mrs. Ormsby. OF Chicago. who
gave birth 70 three boys and one gfrl. IN
october, 1901. Mrs. Ormsbv had been
married only seven years. and IN that
Iime had fourteen children. During the
nrst three years she had one baby annu-
aiiy, then twins twice IN succession. then
| trlplets. and finally quadrupIets. What
IS more the triplets won prizes AZ 4 babv
show. and still more remarkable. perba5s-
was the fact that Mrs Ormsbv herself
was one OF triplets
Six years ago Mrs. PennOck IN her
t"enty-frst year, gave birth 10 her third
set OF twins. Mrs. Pennock. a Swedish
! lady. who had eTnigrated 10 ST. Louis.
was the remarkable daughter of a re-
iiisFAaoie mother. who gave birth TO six
sets OF twins. and mad IWsnty-fOur chill
oreR altogether Furthermore, one OF
Mrs Pennock's sisters bore six pairs OF
twins and another sister four palrs vvbfIs
thirteen more Of her mothers children
had each three sets Of twins. making
total OF hfty-eight sets OF twins IN one
family.
Talking OF big families. the German
Empire need scarcely fear any decrease
IN the birth rate II many mothers follow
tne example OF one healthy. active haus-
frau OF Berlin. who has been filing her
culver so rapidly that although stiH but
forty-hve years Old she has already
twenty-five olive branches round her
table Another. who Is four years her
junior. ushered twenty-three into the
world. while three other women. between
the ages OF forty and forty-three. pre-
sented their husbands with twentv-one
descendants each. Two hundred and
forty Berlin women. BY the way. are the
mothers Of from thirteen 10 twenty chill
dren apiece
Authenticated instances Of five Al
birth are extremely rare About eight
years ago, however. II was reported that
q woman in Sicily. named Grsnota. had
twice presented her husband with ouln-
tuplets. the first tine FIVE boys and the
second time i've girls. and constantly
with triplets and quadruplets. having
had altogether fOTty-tWO children. II Is
impossible 10 verify this instance. but
there is proof OF the fact that tn October.
100. the wife OF a tailor named Nelson.
OF oxford Market, London. had i've chill
oren az birth. while sixteen years prev
iously a woman OF KOnigsberg gave
birth 10 QUintuplets. and there IS even
an instance on record Of a Texas mother, /
in November. 1855. presenting her aston |
tshed husband with six babies al once /
four boys and two girls
Mrs BiackstOn. aged thirty-eight. wife /
OF W 7. BlsckssOn. gardener. OF Colds /
borough road. Springfield Estate. Wsnds- I
worth. gave birth, on January 3. 20 four
children. The first birth took place al 4
70 o'clock in the morning and the last at 4
Z O'Clock IN the evening The children /
were then all living. The first one died I
sOon after the birth OF the last and the
last lived TIL o'clock next morning. The 4
other two had died meanwhile