The New Orleans Bulletin

Seeing Six Generations.

Dr. Plot, in his Natural History of Staffordshire, mentions old Mary Cooper, of King's Bromley, who lived to see the sixth generation, and could have said: "Rise up, daughter, and go to thy daughter, for her daughter's daughter hath a daughter." This was either an imitation of, or suggested by a statement made by Zuingerus to the effect that a noble matron of the family of Dolburus, in the Archbishopric of Mentz, could have thus spoken to her daughter: "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's little daughter is crying." Horace Walpole speaks of an ancient lady whom he visited, one Mrs. Godfrey: she had a daughter who had a daughter (Lady Waldegrave), who had a son (Lord Waldegrave), who had a daughter (Lady Harriet Beard), who had a daughter (Countess Dowager of Powis), who had a daughter (Lady Clive), who had an infant son. Horace Walpole saw all the eight generations at different periods of his life. The secret here was early marriages, one after another. - All the Year Round.