A Naples correspondent to a Paris
Journal gives the following: "About 2 or 3 stations beyond
Pompeii, in the City of Nocera, lives Maddalena Granata, aged
forty-seven, who was married at twenty-eight, and has given birth
to 52 living and dead children, 49 being males. Dr. de Sanctis,
of Nocera, states that she has had triplets 15 times."
Peasant Kirilow was presented to the Empress of Russia in 1853,
at the age of seventy years. He had been twice married, and his
first wife had presented him with 57 children, the fruits of 21
pregnancies. She had quadruplets four times, triplets seven
times, and twins thrice. By his second wife he had 15 children,
twins six times, and triplets once. This man, accordingly, was
the father of 72 children, and, to magnify the wonder, all the
children were alive at the time of presentation. Herman, in some
Russian statistics, relates the instance of Fedor Vassilet, a
peasant of the Moscow Jurisdiction, who in 1872, at the age of
seventy-five years, was the father of 87 children. He had been
twice married; his first wife bore him 69 children in 27
accouchements, having twins sixteen times, triplets seven times,
and quadruplets four times, but never a single birth.
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