Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1904 — Birth Statistles. [ARTICLE]

Birth Statistles.

Recently compiled statistics show that the proportion of twins born as "Witbrother ififfittiiS’ P‘"diiirTn" eighty births. Of triplets there is only one Instance iu 6(400 and quadruplets are as one to 1)12,000. while the chances of a quintet are even more remote, the ra.llo being one in 40,080,000 births. case is known of a woman who presented her husband with, seven successive triplet's. The nhorhdbes of Peru can. in the darkest night and Jn the thickest woods, distinguish respectively a white man, a negro and one of their owfi race by the smell. v