The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-01-17

A'N'AO'io vi ucuIlUSs 4uVy dIS
ooth OF them melancholy and mo-
rose they never address n word to
anyhndy. and will hardly answer the
questions that Others address to them.
lhey always keep apart and never
communicate with one another. An
extremely curious fact, which has
peen frequently noted by the super
lhlendent of their section of the hos
l'ltal, and hy myself is this: From
TINE to time, at very regular inter.
.NAls of two, three and four months.
Without appreciable cause and by the
rnrely spontaneous effect of their III
ness, a very marked change takes
l,iaee in the condition of the two
hFOthers. Both of them. at the same
'fshee and often on the same day,
',es shemselves from their haiti
FA stih,or and prostration they
make he same complaints and they
come Oitheir own accord to the ply
-ician With an urgent request to BE-
liberated l have seen this strange
thing ocur even when they wer
some mills apart. the one being a.
Bicetre AMI the other living at ST.
Anne"
The Tyne England) PiIotin March
1911. contained the following para
graph:
"SOme yean ago the wife of a sail
or named Fly, residing in King
street, North Shields had two daugh-
tors at one birth. More recently
these daughters were married with
in three days q each other to two
sailors, commenting housekeeping in
King street within three doors of
each other, and presented their re-
spective lords ard masters with twin
daughters"
Trousseau, in his work. Cliniques
Medicales, giv's still another ex
ample of twin trOthers extraordinal-
lily alike. II says:
"These twins were asthmatic and
to frightful chgree. Though born
in MarSeilles, they were never able
to stay in thai town, where their
business affairs required them to go,
without hayingan attack. Still more
strange. it WAS sufficient for them TO
get away only as far as T0ulon in or
der to he cured of the attack caught
at Marseilles. They travelled cOntin
ually and in all countries. and they
re9arked that certain localities were
<ssst.inely hnrtful to them. and that
W o'her' they ~'~'0 free from All
asthmatic symptoms"
Certainly proof of the influence of
the ambient like this seems incOn-
tr0vertable.
A friend in Texas, writing of til
comet of 1912, which is now visible.
says: "What does it signify? Pos
sibIy nothing. and yet its former ap-
pearance was connected in remark
able manner with a name that in
military achievements has become
immnrtaI-the first NapnleOn-and, ,
by the way. this great man had an
abiding faith in his ruling star, 'su-
perstitutiOn' which cannot he attrib-
uted to any lack of intellectual
scumen. Without following the steps
of this iIluStrous character to the
summit of his fame, let us pause a
moment to behold him upon It, sur
rounded by majesty Of his own Great
ing, himself seated on The throne of
the world. Spain on his west. the
allotted portion Of one brother; Vest
phaIia of another. on his eastern quar-
Ter: Holland on his north, having
the third for her king; and on his
south, with the crown of Naples was
dpcKed the husband of his sister ! AT
every point were his military dukes
and minor relatives posted, and the
validity of his solid greatness seemed
ratified by his illuStrious marriage
with the arrhducheSs of Austria.
Could anything human appear more
stable than the monarchy of France
= = .s.ltslI g But note the sequel. A,
the meridian Of Nap0leon's glory q
comet of prodigi0us character, tm
same now visible, came to witness hi'
eminent station. Returning from it,
perihelion that magnificent lnninary
hecame family perCpptible at the be-
ginning of September. 1911, at which
time il had acquired 20 deg. of eeles
tial north latitude and was then yer
tical in the latitude of Corsica, Ma
p0leons birth place, and the southern
extremity of natural France. IT.
splendor continued 20 increase, anti
it had reached 48 degrees of latitude
At which time, blazing with unspeak
able sph nd0r, it hOVered over TIN
latitude of Paris! Having traverset
the heavens in such a track as +
reign vertically oyer every point q
latitude from south to north of France
| lot n ho OF Vi,,flx O,,NiaaH that IL