Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-03-18
A CURIOUS srORY

The 8iamese TWins-Theip Life R.nee ths
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Can the Brothers z xist Separated Ia
teresting Questions.
From the Philadelphia Lsdgerl
The Siamese Twins have been Ioet from
public view for he last few years lis Well
Known Of them that they had married two
sisters, and settled down near Salisbury, North
Carolina, on q well-stocked plantation. In
aa1tion to this, they have ample funds invest
60 otnfough their agent In New York. Through
. Noftn Carolina medical gentleman now
,,nr,nn,, our lines, we had the other day an op-
regard 70 them Ever since ths war began thew
nave conunued to reside on their plantation,
anu nEsu @ IA .ne same quiet aud harmony as
ever thought OF drafting them, and their nsSyoas
proepered, except that when ont OF teTner
from any cause,it was apt to work itself oft in
striking the first one that came to hand. from
which the best escape was to keep out OF the
way. The brothers probably never would have
had any difficulty, but that their wives, though
sisters, turned away their hearts, and children
Were the cause of this arrangement Up 70
the period that each had five children altpros-
pered well enough. but one Of them had sixth
degree that the two sIsters, not being bound
together like the twin biotners, would no
longer live under the same roof though, we
osneve, still in different houses on the same
pLah ,anon. The brothers are now IL seems,
uooul nity years OF age, but enc, we believe,
me smaller and feebler of the two looks, il is
T. no~ Iuily ten years older than the other.
hneS can turn back to back or face to face, but
.hat Is as Iar as the remarkable bond that
uhltes them permits. 1t is almost certain that
snouio eilher Ole the other could not survive
even ior more man a few minutes as there is
an artery as large as the fpmorai artery that
connects them. few years since thay aor
responded with some of the leading snrricaI
operators in London, as TO the possibilitv ~ the
umblllicus which unites them heinz .nt 90
that In case of the death OF one, the life ~ The
other might be saved. At the request ~ tho
London surgeon, they visited that city. and
many experiments were tried to dstermine
the safety of suGh an operation. Among other
things, lgature was tied firmly for a few
minutes round the connection between them.
go as to prevent the circulation of blood through
the artery. But it seemed as If each would
expire. II this were longer persisted in. The
smaller OF the two tainted away and lost all
consciousness, and there were symptoms that
the same effect would follow 10 the other, but
that the process could not be continued long
enough without endangering the life OF hun
who was first to faint. Should the smaller
and feebler die,' it might be worth while
making the experiment of operating, but the
prospects of prolongDg the life OF the other
would be very small. Should, however, the
larger and more healthy Of the twin brotners
dIe there would seem absolutely NO hope OF
saving the feebler OF the two. From all this it
is evident that though the connection between
these two brothers is very remarkable and
perfectly unique, it is yet not so absolute as
has been usually supposed.