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 requested, and there, sure enough, was the little super- numerary, branching out at a right angle from its legiti- mate fellows ! Our friend drew a long sigh of relief, and — kissed his wife. Several subsequent children have been equally pleasing to their indisputable progenitor. 14 There is a theory recently started, by certain respect- able authors, that the children conceived within the first six days after the cessation of the monthly period, are girls, and those conceived after the ninth day, are boys. We confess to a want of confidence in this theory, but give it "for what it is worth."

15 De l influence du mariage sur la duree de la vie hu- maine. Par le docteur Casper. 16 But wives only, for it is fast going out of fashion to intend them for mothers — an "accident" of the kind being regarded as "foolish!"

17 For the benefit of our medical readers, we give a brief recital of the pathological features of this truly wonderful case: Coincidently with the beginning of pregnancy was a pneumonia, attended with complete hepatization of the right lung, followed by acute gastritis, then hepatitis, and finally nephritis, with hematuria, albuminuria, ascites, and all the final phenomena of that desperate condition. The labor, somewhat premature, was ushered in by convulsions, followed by coma, stertorous respiration, etc., which con- tinued forty-eight hours, A tympanites — ^the most exten- sive we ever saw — was accompanied by stercoraceous vomit'