A SINGULAR HUMAN PHENOMENON.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2131, 21 January 1880, Page 3

A SINGULAR HUMAN PHENOMENON.

’ There is at present in Bombay (says the'Homeward Mail) a living object that may rightly be classed among the most curious and strangest phenomena of nature. At a house in Mazagon may,be seen a pair of female twins separate in every respect but from the breast bone to the lower part of the abdomen, which is closely joined. The upper breastbone of each infant is linked into the other, the outer skin covering both trunks. The twins are joined front to front; shoulders, arms lower limbs, and feet are perfectly formed, and developement healthy ; while the heads are well'shaped and the faces x’eally pretty, with beautiful eyes, large and bright. The twins are six mouths and 20 days old, they are in perfect health, and measure 20 inches in height, one appearing—but in a very trifling degree —larger than the other. Both have vigorous appetites, and take kindly to the ,feeding-bottle, are.extremclylivcly, and appear good-tempered. Their pulses beat in unison, they generally fall asleep or keep awake together, and their actions are usually simultaneous, though sometimes one would cry while the other was quietly drawing at. the mouthpiece of its bottle. The strangely-

united pair were horn in Dapooli, in the Rutuaglerry - .Collcctoratc, 1 1 ho, .father' being VMahomedan and seafaring man, while the mother has besides a pretty little daughter of about 10. According to the former’s account, lie called in a native doctor at Runagherry, who declared it would be impossible to separate them without extinguishing life. The twins have never been ill and to every .appearance are, likely to grow up.