The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-16

| IN DEATH, ana within Two hours OF
each other they passed away.
Cham and-Eng were the names of
the pair who were born in Siam about
a century ago. They enjoyed all the
faculties and powers usually possessed
by separate and distinct individuals.
They were discovered on the banks
of the Siam River by Robert Hunter,
an American, who brought them to
America. They were first placed on
exhibition in New York, attracting
| tremendous attention. Later Capt.
Coffin took them to England, and. af-
ter being on exhibition several years,
they returned to America and settled
on a farm. There they married two
sisters. In 1869 they again exhibited
themselves in London, but returned 20
America to die.
The Siamese Twins were declared
by their exhibitors to be unique, but
this was far from being the truth.
According to the testimony of medi
cal men, twins joined together have
been born frequently, but seldom live
long. Perhaps the most remarkable
of such freaks next to the Siamese
Twins, were Mile and Christine, ne
groes, who were born in North Car
DINA sizIty-two years ago. They
were wholly distinct in the upper part
of the body. but one in the lower part
of the spinal column and pelVis, while
the four legs obeyed nerves radiating
from a common center. The will, un-
Outstanding and all mental faculties
were distinct They did singing and
dancing turn in many cities, and
were billed as the ''Two-headed Night
| in ga1e.'
| Another famous pair were the Aus
TRAN 'Siamese Twins Rose and Jo-
sefa. At last reports they had quit
the stage and retired to their native
| country to live. Rose was said to be
married and to be the proud mother of
| a normal baby.
Other famous freaks of a generation
that reveled in the abnormal were
Tom Thumb and his midget wife. The
general" is dead, but his wife is
still among the living. Some years
after the death of Tom Thumb she
married Count Magri, another mid
get. The Countess Magri is
now IN her seventy-second year. An
other famous midget, Admiral Dot"
| whose real name was Leopold Kahn,
retired from the show business with a.
comfortable fortune and for many
years conducted a hotel at White
Plains. N. Y.
10 10, "the dog-faced boy" once
a famous museum and side-show at
! traction, is said to be living in Bur-
nah, the land Of his birth. The wild
Men of Borneo,' spent their declining
years in Wa1tham, Mass. where they
died some years ago. Chang the
Chinese giant, has been dead twenty
years. Chang stood eight feet and
four inches in his hosiery. The orig
ina1 living skeleton" Ike Sprague,
who was five feet and four inches tall
and weighed sixty pounds, is dead,
and a medical college paid $500 for
his corpse. The once-famous "girl
with the big feet Fannie Mills, has
been dead eight years. Her feet, nor
NAL in shape. were nearly three feet
long. Appropriately enough, she was
a native of Chicago. The worlds
taIlest woman, Annie Irwin, who was
eight feet three, retired some years
ago and at last reports was living in
Chicago. The, public has tired of
freaks, both genuine and bogus, and
the last of the freak factories" To-
Gated in Connecticut recently quit
business because of lack of demand
for its output.