The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-31
TWINS CELEBRATE BIRTHDAYS IN
 DIFFERENT YEARS.

In Inverness-shire, Scotland, there lives - or did until recently - twins who celebraie their birthdays in different years. The eldest of these Scotch twins will be twenty-seven to- day, having been born on Dec. S1, 1886, while the junior twin was born on Jan 1, 1887. One of them arrived in the world a few minutes before the church bells began ringing out the old year, and the other was born a few minutes after midnight.
 A much more remarkable case oc- cured in England early this year. On Feb 24 the wife of .workfngman at Barrow, in Lancashire gave birth to a son. Both mother and child soon recovered, and within a couple of weeks the mother was able to go about here housework. linen she be- came i'll again, and on April 4 she gave birth to another child, a girl. Six weeks fntervened between the birth of the first and second twins. Under the Insurance act the father was entitled to maternity benefit of S75O The sum is the same for twins as for single babies, however. The father alleged that an interval of six weeks was sufficient to destroy the twinship of the infants, and Applied for a second maternity benefit. thus giving the commissioners a hard problem to solve
 The most remarkable instance of this kind was reported in a medical journal several years ago, when a phy sician described a case in which trip cts were born a month apart. The second baby followed the first after little over a month had e1aps- ed. and the third was born almost a month after the second.
 Twins joined together have. been horn frequently, but few of them Chang and Eng, were perhaps tho best known of these freaks of nature. They were born abeas > century ago. and died in 1874 one on Jan. 18th and the other on Jan 17th, one of them surviving the other about two hours Chang and Eng enjoyed all the factuIties.andp powers usually pos seslied by people more orthodox in thear physical makeup. They were united by a short cartf1aginous band at the pff ofrthe stomach. They were found a1z1ng on thesbanks of the Siam river by an. An1eFican traveller. Rob ert HuRter He took them to New York, STheresE Eheyr'w were-firsts exhibited, anet aa4ar- Capt Coffin exhfbited them In Ensaands IaterstheE married two sisters and aettled on farm. but madeaazAex xhzbftfons tour before their des4as
 TatfESaRess ssEondereukwere the fam spsTWos Headed Nightingale twins of, NoSCh CaroIfnas who were born in 1881 and. died recently fin Ohio Mill lie-Chrasffns were negroes. The up- pe1s parts Of their body was entirely distinct. buE they were one in the 1eaTer- part of the&spina1- column and D sIvfss their four legs obeying inn pu1seSarom a. common center. The wf11s Understanding and conscience were distinct, and this made a lot o1 trr ublesfOr their manager. They sang and danced very well, but very often ens of the tvins-wou1d seek to break ausengagement on the plea, of illness Ttis always angered the other twin who insisted upon appearing. Then manager had to be a very prince o1 diplomats to restore the intente cor diAIe While Millie-C Christine were very much attached to each other they quarreled constantly, and rarely agreed ursa anything. After guar rel one of the twins would indignantly demand that the other go away and leave her alone!