The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-01-27 00:00:00

THE BIAIIIBI TWINS,

- The filamose-tTri-ne:lsl47ig and Eng, died at their home
In North Carolina, on Jen. 17. Eng living two hours
after the death of his brother. These remarkable twins
were born In Elam, of Chinese parents, In 1811, and
were therefore sixty•three years of age at the time of
there death. From birth their bodies were united in a
singular manner by • band of flesh, stretching from the
end of one breast-bone to the same plaits in the opposite
twin:—At test this conneatieg baud seemed to have
united them taco to faro, bat constant emotion bad so
changed its directian, that they stood pertiaDy side by
elle. Its length WM about two Inches; below, nearly
four; from above, downwards, it measured throe Inches;
aod its greatest thickness was one and • half inch. It
wee ',evened with NAIL, and when the centre was
touched, Loth felt it; but on touching either tido of the
medico line, only the nearest teeth-Mord wan sensible of
IL The oonneation between the Siamese twins peewit.
ted many interretinw points in regard to physiology
and patholegy; for although they formed two perfectly
distinct beings, they illppdarCici twist freclentlr to think,
act, and move as on.. individel. Th., twine were parch •
seed of their mother at Motions, a city of Siam, and
were taken to An erica by Capt. Comm and Mr.
Bunter in 1829. After realising • competeeee by the
exhibition of I hemeelvAv In the yertout countries of
Murope, the biomes.) tali,. settled in no of thellouthera
States of Amtrlca, where they were married to two si+ters
and bed (Esping. Owing to domestic querrels, hew.
aver, two houses were f•mtid necessary, etch Irving with
his wife& week at a time altc rnete'y. They were, it is
asserted, rdual by the diessrrons dell war in America,
and in 1869 resepetted in Enrope for exhibition. In
anticipattou of the probable death ot one'( then, bef,re
the other, it WM theu propniled to st; ands than by
dividing the Dealer° whir:ph &muscled their bodies.
The matter formed the subjeot of meet diseuevion among
eminent surgical authorities In this country and in
France, and various opinions wore expretsed as to the
probehility of the operation buing pnrforuied without
endangering the life of the twins. 111, proposal was
ultimately rejected, and Cbaug and Eng returned,
undivided, to North Carolina, ti end their days in poso6.

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Ex pork Jerboa v. tlee-Rer Robert Thwavood.—Mr. Mee
Inured for ruk nisi to shove-ma she a eel talinformation
Should not be issued airalaist the the. ibibert Thompson for an
alleged libel published in a Mull newspaper, and imputing to
Dlr. Francis Jackson nabsionduct in his inneisl curtail
Sheriff of Hull. The matter eising rise to this prooeoding 1001...1
out .4 the law parliamentary election for the borough f Hulk
Mr. Th iron, who lo a dissenting, matcher, is secretary tin
ill Cal Reform Union, and W that aspicit) wad at one of the
meeting, .4 the committee a letter .hieta he received from the
defeated candidate, Mr. Reed, isibiting oat the %cry greit
tramularitles that prevailed In the eandiwt of the mount
erinws. This oi tttttt unlcatlon originated a discussion, in which
reflection* were made on the tactics of the Tory party, who
were su,sassful, and resolutions were passed refleetim: on the
irregular conduct of the election. The silent, comiderud that
he was thus impugned, and hence this iinmsaling.—Mr.
Justice Blacklitun mid tern was not the sli Abet ground for
▪ lting such an application. It WAS a perfect won° of lbw.,
and he was eurpti.ed thAt the 1.-anted comm.' eh•Juld wake
bison: them a ith htit.h a unto, --Rule ref us. d.

In Ilorshani churchyard there is an an opitapla cnnsistins o
them two words, "1k was." A full stop wouki hare ball OW
explicit, more precise, and 4.4)(akial..
A sporting gentleman (no', london explainod !flatten to •
Lelemitenihire (hand thui :—" All of a sudden my borne stopped,
but I sent ortniubt .

_
S. M. Sasby, IL N., a prophet In the weather department,
postdate; something particulerly Stuart in the wind way for the ,
fttli of Ibuch.
At Dleve, the following notice has been honed by the
pollee : - ' The bothlng pollee are requested, when a lady Is In
iiircr of drowning, to seise bur by drool and nut by the
hair, which ,dtentimes TrUaill. In their grasp."
A Kansas piper, which finds It exponent to avoid per
sonalitim, Mrs. thinisey, of Fort Scott., recently flreri
gt some burglars, and belt day one of the aldermen lad his
arm aulputated
Luis'. PLILIIIIT—At the further examination of Lute
at Bow Arcot, on Thursday, George Pulleys, his former
landlord, deposed to the eiroutestanees under whieh
be first presented himself at Poste-eon:sr. This
whitess was specielly asked about the bottrot of payment
for Lule's booed and lodging. He flatly oontradieted
Luis's statement that he lived at his own weak and
Mr. Poland intimated that then would be • sposifie
chews of perjury on that point. Mrs. Pulleys was
called to confirm her husband's *vides** with suspect
to Lula having nt.de no payment Mr Allred Hendricks,
who was attorney to the Defendant when Loue first
tendered himself se a witaws, detailed the various
statements which Irak bed made and the results of the
Inquiries into their authenticity. He put in a letter
from Puna, My., and Co., cif New York, whom Luis
repreeented to have bees the brokers of Osprey.
They deeded all knowledge either of Lute or of the Tema
Mr. Hendricks retired from the awe • few days after
the Osprey 'Menem was opened. On the application
of Lute's counsel a remand was granted.
HoLLOwar's Prms. —Disorders of the Kidneys, known
by the deeply seated pain In the beak and scanty
secretion of water, can be arrested in their distressing
and rapid course by 1b... regulating Pills. Their highly
Wale and street t honing properties prevent the !moored-
&tinsel of the blood and the derangement of ciroulation,
sharaoteristie of kldeey diseases and often ending in
partial or general dropsy. If.xpirienoe has proved the
almost invariable nooses obtained when Holloway's Pill.
are taken in the eerier stages, and the ease they afford
when the complaint is more advanced. They relax the
hot parahed skin, overcame the attendant costiveness,
ladnoe • coploa. *emotion by the kidneys, which are the
leabuigeriof disease departing and health returning.

WHITS biAlt LIIII LIMITED STATIIA MAIL STIAMIIRS.
—Tbe eatzeordinsay regularity with which the steam•
ships of this line sciscruphsh their well-known short
Fs in al weathers, and it all seasons, is evidenced
lisked tables, giving ail ti voyages, of the
bite Star S.S. "Baltic." end the homeward voyages
of the S.S. "Adriatic." Those of the "BeUM" show
her time to have bsen se follows :—Of 20 pillages out-
wards, shortest, days 7 hours 36 minutes; average of
all, 9 days 6 boors 2 minutes ; longest, 10 days 19 hours
22 micelles. Of 20 pommies homewards, shortest, 7 days
90 hours 9 minutes ; average of all, 8 days 13 hours
44 minutes ; longest, 9 days 3 hours 38 minutes. Been
mere striking is the extreme regularity of the White
SW steamer " Adnatts," whose homeward passages
laws-16 times oat of 17—told the same UM, via. :
light days and mate hours I The who!. 17 would hare
been In the same oategory hod one passage taken ooly
an hour &Ad a hell lees, its time having been 9 days
1 hour 13 minutes. In her oem, them are the figures :
monad, 8 days 0 hours 17 minutes ; average of D,ll, 8
days 13 hours 30 Walden; loosest. 9 days 1 hour 13
minable&

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