Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1892 — Lucky Triplets. [ARTICLE]

Lucky Triplets.

“The wonderful Hill triplets, of Bensalem, Bucks county, Penn., are still enjoying the biggest kind of a boom,'’ said old ’Squire Dodwotth, of Bristol, as he sat in a group of friends in the Bingham House lobby, and swapped experiences and news with them. “They’re about ten months old now, and are still so much alike that their mother goes on a-dccora-tin’ 'em with red, white and blue ribbons on the Geroflee-Geroflay plan, so as to make plum sure that they won’t get mixed up in handling. Probably no kids outside of some freak babies in a dime museum ever had so many visitors call on ’em as these Hill triplets. Why, there ain't been a day since they was born that people ain’t been to see ’em, and since the spring set in warm, they come in parties and picnics in the grove nigh to where the babies live. An’ what’s more, them triplets is gittin’ rich faster*n Constable Jenkins’ mare c’n trot a quarter ’f a mile. You see’s soon as they was able to be photographed all in a row, and ninety people out of every hundred that goes to see’em want anywhere from two or three to a dozen to give away to their friends. The trips always coo an’ kick their fat little legs up an’ get pup’ll in the face a laughin’ when folks come to see ’em, and that just makes the photographs sell lik hard liker on a cold night. Plagued ’f I wouldn't be most ready to say them kids was human, they show so much intelligence when strangers drop in. Their mother says they is Just as good all the time, and so do all they’re seven brothers and sisters; but then they’re predgydiced, as is natural. All the photograph money after the photographer is paid goes into the trips’ bank ana I’m told that it’s beginnin' to bulge. ” —[Philadelphia Record.

Gratitude is an actual emotion which it is safe to calculate on—in Japan. The doctors in that country present no bills and yet make a good living. Patients pay what they please.