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Show A NUMEROUS FAMILY. Olio Uouplo l.i Wen- I!H-Hfd with Slxty-Tivo Slxty-Tivo ( (m1. iron. In the Uarlein Mamieript, Xus. '.tHn and 7S, in the library of the British museum, mention is made of the most extraordinary family Unit has ever been l;nown in the world's history. The parties were a Neoteh weaver ami his wiie not wives) who were tiie father and mother of Mxiy-two children. chil-dren. The majority of the offsprings oflhis prolitie pair were boys (exactly how many of eaeh sex Unot known), for the reeor,! men I i him the fact thai, forty-live forty-live of the male children lived to iv:icli manhoM,'s estate, and only f,,ur of the daughters lived u be '.Town-up women. Tliii-iy-n ine of the sons wer- sliH Hv-in;r Hv-in;r in the year Hiilo, the major! tv of them t hen residing in and a i ion I ew-CasLle-on-Tyne. Jt is recorded in one of the old histories of Xewea.stle that "a eertyne f,vn ( Ionian of hire es- beyonil the Tyne to prove this wonderful wonder-ful story." It is further related tliat Sir. I. I lowers adopted ten of the sons, and that three other ''landed gentlemen" gentle-men" took ten eaeh. The i-emioninn-members of this extraordinary family" were brought, up l,y the parents. |