The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-01-17
Coinc1dent Births.
From Sunday News.

One of the strongest OhjectioIs
urged against astrolOgy by those uts
acquainted with its principles is thiss
"If the art were true any two indF
| viduals born under the same meH.
| lian, in the same latitude and at tlt
same moment of time. must hav'
me and the same destiny, although
me were born prince and the othu
| mendicant." Such mOnstrOD
conclusion, as Ashmand particularly
notes. is nowhere au horized 10y any
astrological writer il is. on the cor
rary, always maintained by all n
hem that, in the words of the mas
er, PtOlemy, different modes q
lurture and the variety of ranks
manners and customs." iuevitahlt
prevent this exact resemtlanls
lestiny. and all that believers ig this
science assert il that. in their respec-
i've degrees, any two individuals sn
porn will have partial similarity in
he leading features of their fate.
The following fact has lobg been
recorded works upon astral inf1u nee,
and is indisputahle, as may be sPen by
reference to London newspapers al
the British Museum, published in
February. 1920. In that Month the
death of Mr.. Samuel Henmings j.
noticed; it was stated that he had
been an ironmoneer and prosperous
in trade; that he was hrn on the
4th of June, 1913, at nearly the same
moment as George Ill, and in the
same parish of st. Martins in the
Fields that he went into business
for himself in October, 1850. on the
same day the King ascended the
throne that he married on the 8th
of September, 1861, the same day the
King was married, and finally, after
The other events of his life had re
Spmbled those which happened to the
late King. that he died on Saturday.
the 29th of January, 1920. on the
same day the King died. One of the
most remarkable of these coincid-
,'ncps was that Mr.. Hemning's mind
was affected at the same time and in
the same way a. The Kings.
That persons born at the same time
are subject to the same diseases and
imenable to the same physiological
laws will he suff GENTLY demonstra
ted by the following striking case,
distracted from a paper published in
the Lancet in 1849 by DIR. Laycock- :
exhibiting the agency OF one general
law regulating the phenomena of life
an.l determining the period of their
appearance. The learned writer says:
"A further cnrrohoratiOn of the gen
pral fact wiz, vital periOdicity)
would be afforded il we could take
two indiyiduals whose conception
lateS from the same moment. and,
placing them under similar circum.
stances, watch the occurrence and re-
,urrence of each successive cycle Of
Grange and lis Accompanying phe
nnmena. If the principle of periodic
internal, or ese-periOlical revolution
hp correct. the cycles Of two in,livid-
uaIS would he coincident. This exact
similarity Of circumstances can rarely
he met with, since, even in the CASE
or twins, we cannot be certain that
the conception of both dates from the
same moment, and that consequently
'he vital cycles are ecOntemDOraneou-.
An instance of this kind has. how
ever, been recorded. and is worthy
If notice, because it was related II,
the time as remarkable and inpxpli
cahle case. The instance alluded to
was communicated in 1884 to the
Rnya! Academy If Medicine hy NJ
Congentrp, as singular instance
Of morbid sympathy bptween twin
brothers. 1t is stated that whatever
iudispositjon the one suffered the
other suffered at the same time. De-
rangements IF the alimentary canal
always made their appearancein both
at precisely the same moment, ssxs
the symptoms of beth were of equal
intensity.
DR.. Nnusel carefully watched the
twins after their return from a fifteen
months stay iI the country, and
verified tie observation of their nurse.
He found that quoti,lian intermittent
fever commenced and finished on the
same day, in both; both had con
junctivitis together, teeth at the
same time," ec., etc.
In the Psychologist Morbide of DR..
J. Morcaw, Medicine de Phospice de
Bicetre, the author, thus speaks OF
two twin brothers who had been con-
fined on account of mOnomania At
Bicpire:
"Physically the two young men
are so nearly alike that one is easily
mistaken for the other. Moral y theiI