His widow and 24 of the 42 children are still living." Many Marriages .-- In this connection it seems appropriate to mention a few examples of multimarriages on record, to give an idea of the possibilities of the extent of paternity.

St.Jerome mentions a widow who married her twenty-second husband, who in his time had taken to himself 20 loving spouses.

A gentleman living in Bordeaux in 1772 had been married 16 times.

DeLongueville, a Frenchman, lived to be one hundred and ten years old, and had been joined in matrimony to 10 wives, his last wife bearing him a son in his one hundred and first year.
Possible Descendants .-- When we indulge ourselves as to the possible number of living descendants one person may have, we soon get extraordinary figures.

The Madrid Estafette states that a gentleman, Senor Lucas Nequeiras Saez, who emigrated to America seventy years previously, recently returned to Spain in his own steamer, and brought with him his whole family, consisting of 197 persons.