The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-07-11 00:00:00

A DOUBLE BABY.

A double baby has been made the saki an
of anentitic examination at tile Jatason
Colle.e, Puiladelphia :—TIIO child was brought into the
amphitheatre of Cue college in • litth crib. At !Al
out of the bed was • blight and pretty little face, use
being plump and cheerful, and the other looking a lath
thin. Both, however, were very sprightly. As the two
feces lay in the crib they gave the idea of tire very
short babies lying w,th their heads in oppo,i,e dfrectioos
and their feet in contact. A.id this idea was
strengthened by the fact that while u.,e face will laugh..
log and one net of hands were playing with a peacd,
the facie at the other end ware quite • aciate
expression, and its eyes were looking abeu: in se.ming
wonderment. Substyneutly the child—or rather that
end of the double child—which hal been laughing and
playing, hurt itself with • k. y, wldcla it had to its
hand., and began to cry; while the face at the steer tad
began to laugh. \Veen the clothing was removed, thu
two heads and the two sets of onus a,,,a hauls was
found to be attached to one body and joined together,
just is if two separate babies were cut through nu
middle and abdomen, just at the waist, and thee the
two upper halves united at that point. There i, a folly
developed set of shoulders to each head, anl
developed chest or throat to each; bat from the 'wog
or chest at one end to the breast or chest at the oie
there is only one trunk. Oa one side, the Idt i
the plump baby, just where the waists of the two oat
together, there are two hips and two weibforuni
extending at a right angle from the body, like tl"ki
stmt. On the other side,7also extending from Lusa,
at the right angle, is • long excrescence, compado
the bones and toes of two other legs.

The second reading of the Army Bill in the Hos d
Lords is fined for Thursday, the 13th instant.
Tax RIVIdION OF THU BIDLI. —lt is ..del 7:31
negotiations are in progress for the printing of the too.t
version of the Old and the New Toitsment, :Z4
University Presses.
The Prince and Princess Imperial of Gaul
arrived at Gravesend on Thursday. The Prince c'.•
Princess of lWales met them at Cilaring Crow, g,l
accompanied them to the rsileuc: a the l'rowt
ambassador.

Tug MURDIMI OF • HANK CASIIIEI IN I aILAND.—t•
Glass, the cashier of the the Newtown Btewert
was attacked in an inner office, while h eels 'toque
down. Mr. Glass appears to hare made his way i•to
the outer officio, where his body was found, the murdsm
striking at him on the Way. as the do aui trees wet
covered with splashes of blood. £1520 was carried of
by the murderer.
Mr. Millais's picture "Chill Ootober" 11.• Foy l°
be a " warm" thing for the paieter and its i.d:ch-"t, „r•
£1,500 was a pleasant prico to receive: but. trliat 't.""
we say to the statement that its purchaser, Ar.
of Manchester, ball re-sold it at a thouamd
profit (1.2,594.6 to Mr. Mendel, of Manchester: 64"„
we congratulate Mr. Agnew. or shall we pal 3".•
Millais? Perhaps wo bad bettor 03iliteiftlfai NG
Mendel on not having to go direJt to Mi. YAM
instead of purchasing the puiture throuo • "4'14
man.
Tun OLD LADY OF OTTERY.—More thm epee, re.
ovally, we have met with • paragraph atimt • Cer:ata
widow of 95, now living at Ottery et. MAri, pores,
She has eight children living, the alba; being Gi and
the youngest 48. Her grsodchildroo number G.
ash
her great-grandchildren over 261 The eldest et the
fourth generation is 26 years oil. SuM at least are ne
facts which have boon going the round of the para.
The worst of it is, that tem fertile old lady do.' ars
seem in the least ashamed of herself ; but ".:Poilt
with pride of the number of her deseeudants.' lea
then we wonder that the labour market is oveisteeked
UNFLZAISLIST CoNslyoasCS or A On• Fr.
states that one of his patients recently Lai SOILS toe.
ble with a sawmill, and gut • piece of skin, about tm
vise of a tee saucer, torn from his hip. Our surged
grafted on the skin of a young rat, and in teu days int
cure was complete. The surface of the wound *
covered with a doe growth of hair, sal the reeks
seems to answer usury purpose. Tee only incouvear
once be which the patient is subj.,eted is from cats. us
several ea:miens, when sitting down reading, itO boa
is.se pet to Debate alarm and inconvenience by haripf
the house cat spring suddmly on him sal fa.tes her
teeth in that portiou of his pantaloons whim itawr
ai,kly corers the transplanted ratekin. The tern"
ase, sniff suspiciously at hi& heels when he fa°
woo.. We do not vouch fur the accuracy of ILO."'
We simply give it as told to us.
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tug incidents. An ardent youth in • Northere
lately set out to pey • visit to his sweetheart, but ele
intercepted at the very threshhold of her faih,i's
house by • vigilant watob•dog, that tigoroUsly al-
PUted his Passage. A contest ensued, in which the dolt
got the worst of it, as his antagonist was given to the
reprehensible habit of carrying a stout slue, and, at &
critical stage of the mettles, used the weapon with fatal
effect. Having effectually quieted this Cohere., the
youth marched boldly into toe paternd mansion el ho
beloved; but finding that, in the paroxysm of her
grief for the canine ri• I which he had slain, the dam.
sal would not receive alm with that 'bow of love whisk
had been her wont, he broke off the engagellicet ii
disgust and departed. Be was, however, ',unwed by
the father of the deserted girl, and is now held to
trial for the killing of that dog, so that the enterprise
has not all yet lost the name of action."
Moan or Ma. Honee "Zilaeirtararioliow,w
William Crooke', the editor of the givire'i, r
of Science, and • physicist of high repu b
te, ea
"
bine investigatiugsotue of Mr. iioreee • i"uilestations
The points to which he directed
his attention were .
he
alteration in the weight of bodies, and the
laying of
tunes on musical itistrnmenta with,'" human la`tegcY.
Mr. Crookea constructed an apparatus by which be
Gould test, in pounds. smelly the amount of pe boar
.zaroilted one mahogany board. Oae ant of th
was on • table, and, when Mr. Home's fingers resbd
uPeni.t.et d re
eottheherenhadd been a p
descended to
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one ti M.
Crookes then tried what he could do by rusting the
whole weight of his own boy on the end barely
tociehad,by Mr. Honm's fingers and be found that even
hi
jerking be would only affec it Wale t'ientof two pounds!
tie neat pissed an moordion in a wire cage, open at the
top. Mr. fitunst,_ll4 the ee of four witnesses, 050
of whom was Mr. sane Cos, touched the awl
farthest from the keys and the amordion played a tune,
the sage so surrounding the Instrument that nohodl
could tom* the keys, whit* were visible all the time.
Mr. (hookas eays that these experiments indicate •
"new feces," which be GAM "Persian." Meet people,
ria7=lll6. will be dl•Peod apply• sun bazaar.
paha" vslpe *Owl I. ass.