QUEEREST OF TWINS. Black Babies Joined Like the Famous Siamese.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 313, 3 November 1888, Page 5

QUEEREST OF TWINS. Black Babies Joined Like the Famous Siamese.

The other afternoon a coloured woman on the place of Judge Charles Harris, near Macon, Ga., .gave birth to a child, or children, the like of which has never been seen here before. The following description in the Atlanta ' Constitution ' will give the reader some idea oi it : The two children were attached together at the breast bone, facing each' other, a veritable pair of Siamese twins. From the breast up they were two perfectly formed human beings. Each had a head covered with hair, a perfect face with eyes, noae, ears, mouth and every part and feature of the counteuance. Each had two arms and an abdomen. They had three legs, two legs being perfectly natural and the third leg seemed bo be joined at the left hip of the one, and the right hip of the other. This third knee was only natural from the knee down. On the foot of this leg were eight toes in a row, and a ninth toe on the top of the foot. The third leg rested flat against the body, These were double hip-joints. There seemed to have been only one heart, and the child in whose breast it was situated lived about one hour. The second child lived four and a half hours, and while it breathed the heart in the dead child continued to beat, and it did not cease to beat until the child ceased to breathe. They opened their eyes when born, and one of them cried a little.

Breeches of trust. — Trouserk procured on credit.