Show I TURTLE HAS TWO HEADS That nature Is not without a latent pnso of humor Is often demonstrated the stranGe abnormal creatures bd freak growths she produces and rely does a week pass by that some ho of the many Illustrated publlca ons does not contain a photograph a curiosity of this character Ac brdlngly tho Scientific American lis one more to the list of oddities 1 a twoheaded box tortoise the prop rty of E S Schmld a taxidermist of 1ashlngton The turtle which la of n common lid well known variety and whose plcntlflc name is terrapeno Carolina as found in Fairfax county Virginia ear Mount Vernon and with the ex eptlon of Its superfluity of heads ap are to differ little from tho ordinary cftesentatlves of Its kind 1 Tho truth of this however could only be ascertained ascer-tained at the cost wo fear of the creatiros life for Its nimorllko shell Investigation of its would make an hazardous If not Internal economy Impossible The animal appears to bo about four months old and measures some two by one and three quarter Inches the shell being possibly a trifle larger than would ordinarily bo the of case The two heads are nearly the same size and as far as can be are perfect In all respects Its seen other visible members do not xceed the usual number and It is probably not Incorrect to conclude that the mill tlpllclty la confined to tho heads These do not feed together biujrlo separately and alternately and ap so furthermore to bo otherwise Independent tear dependent |