A PECULIAR PAIR OF FEMALE TWINS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1214, 10 April 1880, Page 2

A PECULIAR PAIR OF FEMALE TWINS.

There is at present iu Bombay (says the Homeward Muil) a living objooc that may rightly be classed among the most curious and strangest phenomena of nature. Afc 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 breast-bone 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 perfectly formed, and development healthy, while the heads are well shaped,and the faces really pretty, with beatiful eyes large and bright. The twins are six and twenty days old, are in perfect health, and measuring twenty inches iv height, one appearing — but in a very tricing degree — larger the other. Each of them have vigorous appetites, and take kindly to the feeding bottle, are extremely lively, 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 born in Dapooli, in the Rutnagherry Collectorate, the father being a mahomedan and a seafaring man, while the mother has besides a pretty little daughter of about ten. According to the former's account, he called in a native doctor to Rutnaghorry, who declared it would be impossible to separate them without extinguishing life The twins have never boon ill, and to every appearance arc likely to grow up,