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Show This Man Says He Is His Own Grandfather Strange Complications Resulting: From Two Weddings Cause Much Mental Exercise Philadelphia, Pa., March 27. Angus Carney, who has announced that he is his own grandfather, has his neighbors doing artnmetic. Carney has compiled the following: I raei a widow with a grown daughter daugh-ter and I married the widow. Then my father met my step-daughter and married her. That made my wife the mother-in-law of her father in-law, and made my step-daughter my step-mother. My father became my step-son. "Then my step-mother, the daughter of my wife, had a son. That boy was of course my brother, because he was my father's son. But he was also the son of my wife's daughter and therefore my grandson. grand-son. That made me grand-father to my wife's grandson. "Then my wife had a son. My mother-in-law, the step sister is also nis grand-mother, because he is her step-son's child. My father is the brother-in law of my child, because the step-sister is his wife. I am a orother of my own son, who is also the child of my step grand mother. I am a brother of my own son, who is also the child of my step-grand mother. I am my mother's brother-in brother-in law. My wife is her child's aunt. My son is my father's nephew and I am my own grandfather." |