The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-07-29
The siamese Twins.

Mark Twain contributes to the August
number of Pdckard'S Monthly a humorous
paper on the Siamese Twins, from which
we quote as follows :: aid stssesa
The twins always go to bed at the same
time but Chang usually gets up about
an hour before his brother BY an un
|derstanding between themselves, Chang
does all the in door work and Eng
runs all the errands. This is because Eng
likes to go out !; Changs habits are seden
tary. However, Chang is Roman Cath
olic; still, to please his brother, Chang
consented to be baptised at the same time
that Eng was, on condition that it would
not count" During the war they were
strong partisans, and both fought gallant
ly all through the greatstruggle--Eng on
the Union side and Chang on the Confed-
crate. They took each other prisoners at
Seven Oaks, but the. proofs OF capture
were SO evenly balanced III favor of each
that a general army. court had to be Assem-
bled to determine which one was properly
the captive and which the captor The
jury was unable to agree for a long time :;
bit theyeXed question was finally decided
by agreeing to consider them both pris-
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Their ancient habit Of going always to-
gether had it's draw backswhen they reach
ed mans estate and entered upon the lux
ury of counting. Both fell in love with
the same girl Each tried. to9steal Gland
estine interviewsswith her, but at the or, =
ical moment the other would always turn
up By-and-by Eng saw, with distraction,
that Chang had won the girls affection ;
and, from that day forth, he had to bear
with the agony of being witness to all
the dainty billing and cooling. But with
magnanimity that did him infinite cred
it, he.succumbed to his fate, and gave
countenance and encouragement to state
of things that babe fair to sunder his gen
erous heart-strings. He sat from .seye
every evening until twoin tire morning,
listening to the fond foolishness of the
two lovers, and to the conclusion of hund-
reds Of squa1dered kisses-for the privi-
lege of sharing only one ofwhich he would
have given his right hand. But he st
patient and waited and gaped, and yaWn-
ed, and stretched, and longed for two
o'clock to- come. And he took long walks
with the lovers on moonlight evenings
sometimes trayersing ten miles, notwith-
standing he was usually suffering from
rheumatism He vas an inveterate smok-
err bnt he could not smoke on these oc-
casions, beca use the young lady was pain
fully sensitive to the smell of tobacco.
Eng cordially wanted them married, and
done, but although Chang often asked the
lmomentous question, the young lady cou' d
not gather sufficient courage to answer it
while Eng was by However, on one
occasion, after having walked some six
lteen miles, and sat up till nearly daylight,
Eng dropped asleep from sheer exhaus-
ton, and then the question was asked and
answered The lovers were married. All
acquainted with the circumstances ap-
pluaded the noble brother-in-law.
ANN-
The steamship Hays Mara, formerly the
4 Confederate cruiser Tallahassee was total.
ly wrecked on Plymouth shoal, near Yo-
/ kohama, Japan, June H.. TWENTY-FIVE
Hives were lost, Including the Captain.
lmauy Of the crew, and most of the passen.
Egsrs. On receipt of the news at Yokoha-
ma assistar ce was Immediately dispatch
Y ed to the scene Of the disaster, but not a
{ yestige of the wreck was visible, the YES
fsel having sunk in forty fathoms of water
Among the lost are Captain Hill; Watts
second engineer; Messers. Maragesson. an
old, well known merchant of Canto, Vain
wright, formerly of SIN Francisco, Her,
Jackilik, Beanist, Kable and Muller.