The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-27
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nearesses Joined together by nature much
more compectly than were tbs famous
Siamese twins. Mile and Christine
have been shown by Barnum and other
exhibitors for many year,, and are now
aRed about %. The Siamese brothers
married two wives, a. you will remember,
n lived I'm South Carolina, after
cetirins from the mo.e%ms, unit.
Immediately followed by that OF the
other from fright. "A post-mortem exam
nation proved that physicians had been
right In saying that q surgical separation
would have been fatal. In the case Of
Mile and Christine even he suggestion
of parting them can not he considered,bc be-
cause they are Joined from their hips near
" up to their shoulders. But IL was not q
question of freaki.h anatomy which led
Ditthoefer In anew York lawyer to whom
show people 60 with many OF their knotty
0But no Ease was ever presented to me
that was easier 70 decide. and yet, more
c~uriously novel" b lawyer recently said
The death OF Dick Fitzgerald, through
whose show agency much of the business
of the museums was done, ~recalls this mat
ter which came to me about q year b
has never been published. Fitzerald called
at my office with a letter from Millie-
S cSs.ssrs !, r sssx wars TO "s S.r to d ana s SSi
the same man, Il would constitute bigamy
i'm the eyes of the law. 1t was evident
piicitiy. that an offer Of joint marriage
had been made to them and that they con-
templatcd an acceptance in case h trt-
urged that they had always been adver-
tised ms "a t~wo-headed girl, the claim be-
one Individual with two heads, four arms
be accepse6 in law then a single
were pious Methodists and had no notion
10 i"u sS,nf tisssssraia WISHED .syI prsofss~ionsi
course the theory that they were one per
had no d%itfic",iy in forming IN an an
for him.. II would entail no criminal pun
shns proc Ses would ever be had
ssancss. "i Bun i / Sad :. e% tell them that Il the
would surely be decided twins, and only
the one marrsaRe which pre-
cedcd the other would be valid, while the
cured a minute later. would be invalid:
and would possibly subject the Isban
to I p%Sesef Fiss~cra IA a sse ts sem lat, s.% Charles Re.
ONConnor's remark. when he was asked
whether 1t was legal to shoot a burglar to
You for IT," he exclaimed, "but no public
prosecutor or Judge or jury would punish
you for 1t; SO shoot the burglar" After
Nhhe Al III i u
that Millie-C hristine's prospective hus-
hand might he sent to states prison for
biRamy, but that nobody would ever IN,
dertake to do IL. However, the twO-headed
girl concluded to live unmarried"
Fasteninx slave. tn XIII.
Fattening slaves i'm q park and feeding
them up like animals destined for the
table and then leading them to q sham
bles where ahey are slaughtered like oxen,
cut into pieces, and shared bit by bit
h..--, uyvnsta1a a.rD 10 NhA
practice which il permitted, according to
M. Fondese, a French explorer, i'm some
of he French, Belgian, Portuguese, and
even British territories i'm Ubanghi. M.
Fondese was sent out three years ago by
the French government to discover the
sources of the NiarRuillon. and having re-
ment of his task he hastcns to tell his
countrymen all about h terrible things
which he has seen in his travels.
The "~fatteninG parks or paddocks are,
he y to be seen i'm each village and
contain men and women who have been
taken i'm war. The poor wretches take
them to whom NJ. Fondese offered free
dom actually refusedi il. They, eat, drink,
dance and sing until the head fetish,
orchestra OF tom-tom and tin-kettle play
ers, selects n sufficiently fat specimen.
the village, and splits his or her head
with a Ratchet or scythe-like knife. The
eyes and ongne Of the victim are given
" tLHS tRSco AStibhs hhDA tAIS ESts ~ tAN7
body 10 divided among the anthropopha9i.
Chinese Foot-CrAmpinR.
Our esteemed Chinese contemporary,
the Hu Pao, has been Investigating the
origin of foot-crampinR by Chinese women.
The practice is of very ancient date. Some
affirm that IL rose i'm the time of the five
dynasties-that is, i'm the tenth century A.
ID. Jao Niang, the mistress of Ii Yu, the
last emperor OF these dynasties, tied up
her feet with silk into the shape OF the
crescent moon. and all the other beauties
of the time initiated her. The literature
of previous dynasties do not allude to the
custom. During the reign OF Kong Hi
Q664 A. d. an edict forbade foot-cramp-
ing under various penalties, the local
officials being held responsible in some
degree for violation of the law by the
people i'm their district. But the ashio
was too strong, and i'm 1858 at the instiga.
ton of the board of ceremonies, this edict
was withdrawn. 1t il still universal in
Kuantung and Kuan9el.
American Pronunciation of French.
The pronunciation of French phrases
which have come into common use by
people who haven't much knowledge OF
French is rather an interesting study, say,
the New York Graphic. In the restau
rants, for instance, there is gen
orally as much confusion about tbs
.,.1 .vssbn. M tbor, 10 .xn,