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...occurred to Isaac, sexagenarian son of Abraham, that Rebekah, big with twins after 20 years' barrenness, might have half betrayed him when she conceived shaggy, ruddy Esau and sleek, swarthy Jacob. Wiser in rustic folkways, Ewald Peddie, Yankton. S. Dak. farmer, taxed his wife with infidelity when she bore him twin sons who were in his eyes as different as Esau and Jacob. She admitted bedding with a neighbor. Everyone to whom Farmer Peddie talked declared that the idea of twins having different fathers was scientifically preposterous. For six years his suspicion of divided paternity rankled. Finally, Peddie found...
...other hand, U. S. medical records of the last century hold the cases of two white girls and one Negress, each of whom cohabited in close succession with a Negro and a white man. Each of the three bore one white, one mulatto twin...
...rule that humorists are uneasy and irascible in their private life. Ed Howe is no exception. Married in 1875 to a wife who bore him three children, he often found his family, like most of his friends, a burden. Behind their brick home in Atchison he built a two-room house in which he lived alone. Thirty years ago Mr. and Mrs. Howe were divorced...
...could say anything the gnomic little man caught him by the arm, and, chuckling a typically library-muted chuckle, pulled him for miles along the gallery. After a long walk in silence they came to a large room, set apart from the rest of the great library, which bore a sign over its closed door: EXPURGATORIA. Inside, in a neat row on the shelves of forbidden books, were all the works of Professor Kirsopp Lake...
Coldest in years has been this Paris winter. But at Physiopolis, undaunted and undressed, a professor's wife kept up until last week her daily regimen of dips in the icy Seine, five-mile walks around the island. Then she bore an 8-lb. baby, named it Physiopolis. It was the colony's first birth, the island's first in 200 years...