The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

A London Paper of August 29, has the following paragraph.

"The account of the population of the district of Suhika, in Russia, sent to the Chancery at Moscow this year, contains a singular fact: There is in this district a peasant of the name of Feodor Bailloff, who has had a very extraordinary number of children by two wives: His first wife brought him 69 children in 21 lyings-in: she has been delivered 4 times of four children, 7 times of three, and 16 times of two. His second wife has lain in only eight times; and had two children at a birth six times, and three children twice. These two women therefore, in 35 lyings-in, have made him father of 87 children; and what is still more extraordinary, there are but four of these that have died; so that his family consists at present of 83 children. A most astonishing instance of population this; and it is to be hoped the Empress, who has so much the good of her subjects and the prosperity of her immense empire at heart, will graciously be pleased to order some provision to be made for so useful a member of society who must undoubtedly be burdened in an uncommon manner with so numerous a family."