Show HAS TWO heads that nature Is not without a latent sense of humor is often demonstrated by the strange abnormal creatures nd freak growths she produces and rarely does a weel pass by that some one of the many p alica t ons does not conta n a photograph of a cuno siti of this character ac cordingly the scientific american adds one more to the list of oddities in a two headed box torto se the prop eity of E S a taxidermist of V ashington the turtle which Is of a common and well known variety and whose name is carolina w as found in fairfax anty virgin i near mount vernon and with the ex caption of its superfluity of heads ap pears to differ little from the ordinary ot its kind the truth of this however could only be ascer tilled at the cost we ear of the creature s life for its armor like shell would make an investigation ot its internal economy hazardous it not impossible the animal appears to be about four months old and measures ome two by one and three quarter inches the shell being possibly a trifle larger than would ordinarily be the case the two heads are nearly ot the same siz and as tar as can be are perfect in all respects its other visible members do not exceed the usual number and it is probably not incorrect to conclude that the mul ity is confined to the heads these do not teed together but do so separately and alternately and ap ear furthermore to be otherwise in ce pendent |