Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — Freaks in Teeth. [ARTICLE]

Freaks in Teeth.

Nevada City, Cal., has a negro bootblack who has four perfect rows of teeth, three in the upper jaw and one in the lower. W. A. Watt, a grain dealer of Hemying, Idaho, has but four teeth, two in the upper and two in the lower jaw. He is only 28 years of age, and these are the first and only teeth he ever had. Each tooth partakes of the nature of a tusk, being round and conical, and almost twice the length of ordinary teeth. A citizen of San Francisco has no teeth in the upper jaw, nor never had, although the lower jaw is provided with two perfect sets. The Bailiffe family ; formerly of Fairfield, Ohio, was composed of 9 boys and 6 girls, all of whom had double or molar teeth in front as well as in the back of the jaw.