A TWO-HEADED G1RL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 660, 6 January 1881, Page 2

A TWO-HEADED GIRL.

" "A'Writerin-Landand Water gives the following description of a tffo'-Ile'aded infant which is.at-pr.e'sent-.being exhibited at Java :-r-"There is here at, prfc&ent on view, and I„have wen it, a Japanese 'infant girl with two heads ; ahd'" necks, .but with one body, two artiig'-and- legs. ; Tho little thing is now about, fifty days \old according to the'lmothef,-kd .is .so far in fair health. The two- heads and ineoks are ' placed side by- side , on the trunks,- and are perfectly and neatly formed, and of about normal .size. • Between them,, on.the trunk,' is a.-small protuberance, caused evidently, by .the junc* - tion of two bodies. / Tho'body: is'abnormally broad at the shpuldera'). and. tapers down at'the: waist and loitis to the'size of an ordinary infant of the same aee; the •z .- legs appeared very small andweak, however. The arms, too, on each.side of the broad chest, looked puny. The right hand .l head is a little lighter in color than the other/ How the internal arrangements ■ are disposed I, of course, do not know, but both heads have to - be fed at hiSaj times. When-1- was' present one head cried, the mother said frotii'hunger; but the other did not, though'at the same time began moving about restlessly, as if' for food. The two .heads do not breathe alike, nor do the pulses on either arm beat together." 'trom time to \ time the infant or infants (for'each head has a name), suffer from depression, and the faces turn bluish, showing that the ; blond circulatfon is .not. properly regulated. If; is feared, therefore;" that <the little things- will not Jive jonjßtThe parents-are .ordinary -Japanese of the lower class, and the mother is goodlooking ; so' is the offaping. . Thoy are ' doing a good trade by'the exhibition, at one guilder a head for .Europeans.