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Show THE OLDEST TWINS. Elvira and Elmira Fife of Peterboro, N. H, Ar Entitled to the Honor. At Peterboro, N. H. , live Elvira and Elmira Fife, who claim to be and probably prob-ably are the oldest twins living. Next August they will be 83. At the age ol 14 they entered the employ of a local manufacturing company, and for 60 years they remained on its pay roll, the maximum max-imum wages earned being 99 cents per day and the minimum 7 1 cents for three days' labor. A Boston Journal reporter recently visited them. "Is it true you have never ridden on a railroad train?" queried he. "It is," was the reply, "'and, whatia more," said both in one voice, "we never nev-er will. Although the Boston and Maine railroad has run cars within 10 rods of our door ever since they built the road into this town, we have never yet entered enter-ed a car. We came pretty near it at one tima A few years ago some of the townspeople wished us to take a ride in the cars, and we came so near it that we went to the depot, but backed out before be-fore we got aboard. " Nor have these ladies ever entered a theater, and very rarely did they enter society, and in all their lives they have been separated but 70 hours at any one interval, and wThen Elvira was taken ill and it was for a few days thought she could not recover Elmira was nearly crazy cra-zy and threatened to commit suicide if her sister was taken away. "I don't wish to live if the old woman, wom-an, " as they always call each other, "is taken away. " The strong resemblance between them is still as prominent as ever. One great peculiarity about these women has been that, although living in the same house and eating from the same table, they have always lived separately that is, each has cooked her own meaL If one had a boiled dinner, the other had a boiled dinner, and it was not cooked in the same pot either. If one had a turkey, the other would buy a little larger one, and so in everything they vied with each other to see who would live the better. |
