Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-10

OLD NEIGHBORS Or TuI TWINS. CTS society by a circumstance which they could not prevent. >nd which was about 7t inches i'll length. lived until the win ter of lS15-6 under the American name of Bunker. Here they were married, here their children Were born. and here they died.
 Recently hav>' had the pleasure of reading an instructive article on these gentlemen prepared by M. A Dufour for French journal, and with the items of interest offered me by the old neigh bors of Chang and Eng besides l venture to write a letter on these much talked of people from siam
 M. Dufuur goes on tu state that las d'exhiber leur 'trait-d union dcvant les curieuX deS dcuN mondcs. ills avient ac- | quis unc iolie fcrne, q Mount Airy dans lc comtc de Surrey Caroline du NorO pcti darmees avant la guerre de scccs- sion, ct passedaient quelques esclaveS." i Caroline du Nurd is good. 1 shall have 1 that put on my cards hereafter. Trans 1 lated. M. Dufour's happy expression i'm, 1 plies that, tired of displaying their natal hyphru tu the gaping crowds uf both worlds, they had purchased q prrt- 1 ty farm al Mount Airy, Surrey county. 1 N. C., a few years before the war of SC cession. They owned d few slaves"
 On this last question there is differ ence between authorities. M. Dufour who was thoroughly familiar with his subject. states positively that they were not antagonistic regarding the great question of the right to maintain and ! extend slaverv-in other words. that the war did not separate Chang and Eng Yet l was told by man who claimed to know them we'll that Chang owned one slave, while Eng did not. and did not favor the uuholy traffic Chang believed that. slavery beinga good thing, one could not have too much of il, also that states had the right 10 regulate it as they would tho liquor traffic, while Eng believed that 1t was national question and final ly refused 10 help catch and return Chang's nigger for him.
 My informant said that this led to iu- ternecine strife between the two, and that when they Were on their way home from tine lodge. where Eng, not being a member, had reluctantly gone tu see Chang take the thirty-Secund degree, they had an open rupture almost, after which Chang enlisted in the Confederate army and Eng ill the northern army. Later, however. both deserted, noticing how awkward it would be in case one should suddenly decide to die for mother. home and country, while the other ia vored longevity.
 This same man told mc that when Nancy Bunker was born her father iu- sisted that her Uncle Chang should run for the doctor.
 Eng and Chang mean, i'll the Siamese tongue. with which l am perfectly ia miliar. right" and left" They were born nt Bangesen. Siam, April l5, ls11. , almost simultaneously.
 They had . Chinese father, and their mother was one-half Chinese the other half being Siamcsc.
 In putting on their dress suits they left out the lower stud of tho shirt i'll order , 10 givc room for tho strange coffee col , pred coupler which joined the two at "a base of the stcrnum.
 , The Sternum iS the breast bone. . These two twins were brought to the
 United States at the age of IS and were , on exhibition up to the time they set
 tied down at Mount Airy. They appeared jointly.
 Those who saw them say that Chang and Eng did much hy their public aP-
 pearanceS tn elevate and refine those who
 saw them.
 Still Chang Was incorporate. accord , ing to Dr. Jacobi. and many a time Eng, who Was quiet and sober, had to go on in Chang's place as an understudy. , Eng was a Baptist. and on the day he
 united with the church and was i'm
 merSed Chang insisted on accompanying , him ill q beastly state of intoxication. These were the best known twins in history. living to tue age of 64, or nearly f so. The Two Headed Nightingale is vet , living at the age of 42, but is still single
 that Is. unmarried. l do not know
 how l would propose to the Two Headed Nightingale. l might be acceptable to I one of her reasoning faculties. while the [ other might be more sensitive to horri-
 ble sights and refuse.
 f Chang had some literary ambition.
 while Eng did not. Chang's love fC~ I rum was a pretty good sign that he was . genius. Night after night he would l pull Eng out of bed while sound aslee; r and jerk him around in the dark. iottinl K down memoranda of thoughts he haG 0 during the night. Chang had invented l. what he called the authors friend. Il f consisted of an illuminated wall at on' n end of the room made of mlNtur'
 which lighted it mp so that he could pre-
 serve thought which had made its ap
 pearanCe during the night. ii He also invented the Edinburgh iok ll gimlet and used it successfully while il H Scotland.
 II They were more irritate,l against racl other after the war than before. fo N Chang lost his nigger and bitterly rc preached Eng for being at the bottom
 of it. On top of all this. Eng tried t' III reconstruct Chang.
 II Chang married some time before tn
 idea occurred to Eng, and though he en III tered fully into the spirit which prompt II ed Chang to wed he often felt ill at eas
 and out of place sitting up late of night
 during the counting and taking col, looking at the moon and pretending t
 be asleep.
 Therefore he seon turned his attention
 toward marriage, and accompanied b,
 his brother one evening made a proposa
 to Chang's sister-in-law. She rejecte, him, claiming that, according to her nc