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Life is like a pack of cardi; Childhood, the beat cards are hearts; yeuth is captured bj diamonds; middle age is conquered with a club; while old age is rak«d in by the in* ■atitble spade. A birth, of an extraordinary character, has occurred in the small fishing place of Tnstow, North Devon. A poor woman, the wife of a thatcher named Graydon, has just given birth to female babies joined together,'or rather incorporated or joined together, from the breasts down to the abdomen. They are perfect in,every respect else, having a head each and two hands, two legs and trunk, and it ii believed a separate existence. They He in bed beside the mother, faoiog eaoh other, and are very much alike. They are well aud healthy, bat. are. slightly thinner than when they were born a day or two ago; The mother does .not think one of them will live, and she 1 is anxious lest one. should die and the other, live* The neighbors and local doctors, however, believe the infants will live. It is a more wonderful ease than ..the. Siamese twins, and is exciting great interest in the neighborhood. ■?■

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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3659, 17 September 1880, Page 2

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194

Untitled Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3659, 17 September 1880, Page 2

Untitled Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3659, 17 September 1880, Page 2

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