A NEW, MONSTROSITY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 110, 1 May 1876, Page 2

A NEW, MONSTROSITY.

V The n Sah JP ranciso Monitor Bays : — " The Eastern papers record a freak of nature that ..out-rivals, the Siamese . twins, The-* strange freak^ is in' th^i shape of a double child, or more strictly speaking; two children joined together. The curiosity is the offspring of colored parents, Crittendon aud Sarah Jones, of Beach Island, South Carolina. The one child is a perfectly developed female, large of her age, and' < with every appearance of health. Tbe other, who is a male, is bat imperfectly developed, has only the rudiments ,df limbs, and does not eat, depending for sustenance on his sister. The two beings are joined together by a wide | band, in the centre of which one of tbe lungs of the strange creature seems to be located. Touch the male and tbe I female will shrink; pinch it and she will cry. Reverse the operation, ! and , still it is the female who manifests insensibility. The head of the female is misshapen, the ears presenting more tbe appearance of an animal than a human being. Tbe pulsation of the heart and of respiration can be plainly Keen in the ligament joining the bodies. The ligament, if such it can be called, ia joined to the girl at the end of the breast bone, and to the male lower down. It is broad and thick, covered with skin like the rest of the body. Whether there are two distinct sets of vital organs, or whether both are dependent upon one, has not yet been I determined. The latter opinion seems 'to prevail, however. It is apparent, at any rate, that the male receives ita nourishment through its companion. A ; well known physician examined the | twios, and pronounced them to be the. most wonderful natural phenomenon of the kind in the world." "'