The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-11-10

The SiRmese Twins MOnsteF-
Full Description Of tie SOn-
der = Two Heads and Four
Legs-EOw ID Looks and Acts.
[COrroSpondsnoe of the Cleveland Leader
GALIoS, o., October 26, 1870.
Yesterday, in company with DR.. h. NJ.
Duff, Professor J. G. Hartzler and others,
visited the "curiosity of all curiositiesj'
the "wonder of all wondets,'' tie "Finely
baby" The parents, Joseph Finley and
Ann E. Finley, live in Morrow county,
ten miles southeast Of Cafdihgtoh, and
four miles s5ith Of d little town called
South Woodbury.. The husband is forty
and the wife thirty-three years of age.-
They are plain, ordinafy, Intelligent, hon
est-appearing country people. He Is a
native Of Pennsylvania, she Of Virginia.
Of the two, she is perhaps the most intel
lbctual. She is astout=bdilt, large; healthy
looking woman, aid would weigh about
one hundred ana f0tt9-hve pounds. He
Is rather slender built, medium Insight,
and would weigh, say one htndted and
fifty pounds. Besides this "little wonder" 4"
they have three healthy, hne-lookihg
children, with nothing Unusual in their
developement, eit1et ttistital or physical.
The parents are not related to eaGh 6ther,
and no pethliarity Of physical develOpe-
ment was ever known among their an
cestry.
Mr.. FINLEY has a small pie6s 6flahd With
a new and comfortable frame house on it.
We reached the house about noon and
found the mother up and about the house
and in moderate health. The baby; Of
babies, the child or children, just as you
see ht to call it OF thstti, was in the arms
and care of thatr0hly-looking, g66d-fa-
thred, accommodating ahd kind h6fse,
about forty-five years of age, who took d
good deal of pains to exhibit the Vwonder," 4"
at the sattie tiHig g1afding it with care to
preVefit ithproper handling OF the doing
of anything that w6tld hurt or injurs #.
Some twelve or fOutteef1 were in the rOoti
at the tittie, and FROM each ali admission
fee of ole dolldt wds collected, and the
sight was cheap at the price. All were
permitted to look Until satisfied. Thg
"curiosity" at first was crying at both
ends. The nurse administered some kind
of "body food" to it at each Gid which
seemed to give it satisfaction, and one
end dropped to sleep while the other was
awakej then that end woke up and the
other went to sleep. Where the word
Hend" is used the reader can substitute
"head" if he prefers it,. It is two weeks
old to-day, and seems to be in as good
health as any baby could be at that age.
All the different parts and organs Of this
body, or these bodies, seem to be perform
ing duty in proper way, and the indica-
tions now are that this "chap," or these
"chaps, will live, if not killed by show
ing and handling them.
The mothers modesty seemed a little
shocked at the exhibition of her offspring.
The father takes it very cool and is inclin-
ed to think that he has a big thing.
When the child was two days old, one
o. G. Brown-an insurance agent, attorney
at-law, etc., and son of S. Brown, J. P. of
Cardington--witha an eye to business, en-
tered into a contract in writing with tho
parents, by the terms of which the parents
agreed to travel with him and exhibit him
under his direction and management for
the sum of fifty dollars per month, Brown
to defray all expenses. If the child dies,
Brown is to have the body for a certain
sum. This contract the parents repudi-
ate and refuse to perform. They have
taken legal advice and say it is void and
worthless, and pay no attention to Mr..
Brown. On the other hand, Brown main
tains that the contract is good and bind
ing in law, and if the parents will not
perform it voluntarily, he can compel
them by aid of the courts. The result
will probably be "big law suit" Brown
is inclined to think that he has done it up
5rOUn; that he has "large elephants" in
fact, that he has a No. / big thing-a
fortune. Whether he has or not, the thing
is great wonder-an astonishment-the
greatest, physically, in the history of the
human race, and well worth going from
Cleveland to see it.