Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — THE TRIPLETS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE TRIPLETS.

nio Tour 7 Child, ' en ’ Born Tfiirty-ft»nr ( , Yearn Ago, El Joy Uagr Good Health, To be a triplet is aXi honor of which Tew of us can boast. \To be a triplet and live with the othejrijtwo members 'Qf the' trio until it la t\e oldest in ithe world is rather piling pn the 'glory. The modest heads' whose pict’.Wes accompany this been crowned with this distinction. The Young triplets-arc the oldat living.

Their names are Adalia ' Almond Franklin, and Almore Frankford Young, and they are thirty-four year# old. They were bbrn • at 1 Winchester, Ind., May 14,1857/and when they were six months- old ttietr parents took them to Van Wort, (Ohio, where they remained till- their mot her died—March 20, 1882. They Shen* moved to Monmouth, 111., wtioro A'lknore;. who is married, now lives; Adalia afterward came up to Chicago, and is a dressmaker l here: Site'lives with Almond and a married! sister on the West Side. The "affetw tlore of the triplets is astonishing; The girl is so attached to Almond! that when be is detained by work, and>doe» not come home prompttydD> the owning she immediately seta--out to find! him She can not sleep if hw is nob in the house. The brother toturns- her affection and they make a> very During etnple. The triplets are astonishingly allkh in feattire, although Almore's face has been 1 thinned by cigarmaking, which'tiho' young man follows for a t rade. The girl weighs 133 pounds, Alrnorp weigh* 130 and Almond weighs-1138, They are of the same height t*». ai hairbreadth—five feet six inches., They are, they believe, without doubt,-the oldest triplets in the world. It is seldom that one of the babes of* triple birth does not perish almost ImtuedliaU-iy, and there are few cases-o( more than two passing . adoleseenco;. Tliese three are in good ' health and- very likely to last many a ; year to come; They have had lots of offers to gr>. traveling with circuses or ' draw big-salaries from dime museums, but they dbrdt want that sort of notoriety..

THE TRIPLETS.