Thirty-three Children

Think of a fatber elimbing out of bed at daylight nnd calling to cach of bis thlrty oí more children to get up, and then nnsigniüg them their several duties. for the day ! Such a man waa Autoine Louis Descompt Labadie. Witb. liis fatber and two brothers, tbis somewhat remarkable son of Oaul emigrated from F ranee, and settled in Betroit in 1750. Nineteen years tbereafter bo married Angelique Cainpau, and tbe two went to housekeeping over the river. Antoiue Labadie lived happily with his wife for five years, wben Blie died, baving borne him Bevèfi ehildren duriug that time. He bad traded extensively witb tbe Indians, acd had treated them witb such uniform lrindness and consideration that upon tbe death of his wife tbey entreated bim to marry a raaiden from out their I tribe. Tbis be did, cboosing the dnugbter of e, Sauteuse Chief , as tbu records of the Catholic Church et Sandwich have it. Seventeen cbildren bis dusky bride presented him, and then her spirit fled totbe happy hunting grouuds. Aboriginal and Norman blood mingling in tlie veins of the seventeen descendants of this last unión helped to bnild up a liardy and rather industrious community, and btill Labadie faltered not. He was wedded to Miss Charlotte B.irthe, and the fruits of this union were nine ehildren, the oldest sou being the father of Gregoire L. Labadie, of this city, and Oapt. Charles F. Labadie, of the flrm of Labadie & Parent, Windsor. Tbe latter still holde a portion of the old homestead in Walkorville. Old citizens say that it was not an nncommon thiug for tbe old Frencb rettlers to raise families of eighteen and twenty cbildren. An old resident says that Van Avery, who lived on the present site of the water-works, was the father of