Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-02-12
Etnn he London Literary Gozetie.


ordinar, bows since ou- first no ice and, indeed
the Journals generally have been very s''rh'
ab,u, them we have not been ina'tentlVe %
servers of a phenomenon so unexamped IN inc
annals of the human species. We nave enGea-
| vo, ed from fac,s to form some more accurate
notion of their Sc parate existence. and oil nose
| ties of sympa,hy or long habit which, together
with their natural band, pniie them so insrpa-
rably to each other. And as several oil these
matters will, we trust. in,eres, our r. ders, we
shall throw them, without method into the
asec do,ical form.
The ACQUISITIONS Of these lads seem 10 pro-
coed nearly Pari passu they have both learn
ed good DE- al Of English, and speak il very
p.ariy alike They have also, OF late, been
laugh, whist, a, which they play ,olerab'y well,
and Of which they are very fond. And one OF
the remarkable traits attending this is, that
they play the gsme against each other, and
| most honorablv 1--WE have seen single oodifo
players MOI qui,e so cotrec' abstain from look
| ing into each OF, sr's hands. The other day
Chang played dun,by agains, Eng and part
ner; and very interesting contest i was.
Recently, when they wee indisposed, they
took medicine ,oge her, and were affected pre-.
eisely in The same manner; but when med
| icise was administered 10 the one add not 10
|
empt.
A curious exempl,6c alton Of their separate
state i. afforded by the grand mystery Of
dreaming. Not long since, ,hv individual who
slerp, in the room with them observed ore ex-
tremeIy disturbed in his sleep, and the other
SO violently agitaled that he screamed out
! He FASTENED to awake them, and on lnQuiring
what was the matter, the one that was disturb
ed told him he had dreamed he met his mo-
Their; The other who was more apila'ed, that
he though, somebody was cutting OH his hair.
! The hair, by the way, is a cherished orna-
men,. In sleeping they lie on their back, with
their heads, generally, as far apart, as posi-
b. or convenient.
While asleep, If YOU touch one, you also a.
wake the other But il appears that though
q sensation is communicated, il IS not the same
srnsa'ion. For example, il one is tiekled 10
cause laughter, the other knows you are tick
ling his brother. but he does not feel it. This
is the case whether he sees what is done or
no..
They are smart in their remarks, and very
excellent mimics and imtators The other
day Sir A. Carlisle was enforcing the expedi.
ency Of their oring laugh, to read and, by
way Of demons rating the thing, he marked
big A on a card o shew them. This he did,
pronouncing in sound ped.gogue s'vle Ana
The boys Immediately sounded the letter SO
like their instructor Is to create consid' rable
merriIpent. He then went TO b and G.; but
while doing so, they had go, a little impatient,
las school boys will do with their teachers,
and one Of them interrupted hin: upon which
| be exclaimed, Pshaw, pshaw, attend TO me ="
so the lesson continued I'LL Chang ,ook toe
| pencil 10 make the letters. and held il in his
hand in the most awkward wav; upon which
! Sir Anthony interiered 10 set MIN right; but
the scholar was close in all, aud in his turn ex-
claimed the same " Dshaw, pshaw, auen mr. ="
He nevertheless drew the capi'ally in his
own mode
On another occasion, visi,er, impressed
with he idea tha their religious instruc ton
ought 10 be amended TO, spoke TO them on this
subject In his ve>tigation Of their condiion,
hr asked, Z" DO you know where you would 60
# YOU were 10 die? To which they replied
quickly, pointing up with heir fingers, " Yes,
yes, up dere" Their sanity friend, unluckily
for himself, persevered in catechisine; and
questioned them, D" you know where !
should go, il were to die?" to which they as
promptly answered, pointing downwards, eyes,
yes, down 6ere" We are afraid that the laugh
which followed was likely to efface the memory
Of the well me ani attempt TO Undue their minds
with Christian knowledge.
With regard TO their speaking 10 each ,her,
though they do not SO often, yet they oeca
sionally converse. II has, also, singular eff
fec, to witness the two speaking together at
the same time on diffrren. topics to differen,
persons. This they will do if two BEAUTIFUL
females happen 10 address them together; for
they have taste enough TO be very partial to
beauty in the other sex. They are much al
taehed 10 the wife Of Mr.. -, one Of the indi.
viduals Who brough, them 10 Europe.
They almost always ca, alone, and, we un.
derstand, have a dislike to being looked at
while they take their meals
| OF their strange formation, an accurate cas-,
been ,aken by Mr. Sievier, and copied in wax
BY pupil OF Mr. B. Bolton, the medical g-a.
tleman who has attended them since their arri-
val.
The inireq"ency Of functions Of this nature
renders every p ,r:icuisr that relates to such
beings curious, and NE wish we could learn
even more ,riA,ng eedo'es than we have here
reia'ed, Of similar phenomena In former times.
But "" know little or nothing Of them, except
that they we're sonehsw joined. There was,