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Show BACK TO FIRST PRINCIPLES. -Genesis informs us that Abraham utid ills wlfo Surah bouumo tho p.ironts at a vory advauood uge, of thoir son Isaac, tho mother boiug ninety and tho father a hundred years old. In relation to tboso soriptorul mutters thoro is always adegroo of romotonoss that glvos thorn a privilogod right of crodonce, or nt least doprlvos thorn to somo degico of boiug subjoctod to tbo sumo degroo of doubt that something some-thing that is suid to bavo huppouod hi our own times undergoes, r.s iu relation to tbo romoto ages of autiqul ty wo aro iu tho habit of making many concessions that wo would not bo willing to make in rolatlou to our own timoa, so that tbis romurlcablo birth doos not strike us us boiug so strango us it othorwiso would. Hut when wo hour of u who such as tho following, takou from tho columns of ono of our oxchangos, occurring iu our own timos, it not only strikes us us vory romurkublo, but it justifies us in fooling that thoro is n probability probabili-ty of gotting buck to first principles, and that among tho many other pro gressive events of modern times that of longthonlugout tho term of lifo and tho rotontlon of physical forco to nu udvuiiood ugo is liiot lining , overlooked over-looked : "Vestordny, nt Chariton, Iowa, tho homo of Mr. aud Mis. Jnmos Bradley was gladdened by tho appoaranco ot tho eighth pair of twins. Ono is n boy of olgbt pounds and tlio other a girl of Bovon. Tbo father, who sorvod all through tbo civil war, is 78 years of ogo, butishulo and vigorous. vigor-ous. Tbo mothor is GG. Dosldcs tho olgbt pairs of twins ono other child was born to tho family, making n total of sovoutoou children." |