Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1878-12-26
philadelphia Times, 10th. I

ana party was what the register OF
an uptown hotel showed last night.
1t wasn't bird or any other species
of biped. So far from having
two legs it had four. The hotel
clerk was in constant grin. 1t
was eviden: that he had stored mp
some fine anticipations as to the
surprise this singular announcement
wonld cause people when they ran
their eyes over the register 1t was
not every day a colorcd woman
with two heads, four arms, four legs,
four eyes, four ears, two noses, two
mouths and two tongues registered
at that hotel and the clerk was
bound to make the most of it. The
''and party" consisted Of two Ita,-
ian dwarfs, both in top-boots and
moustaches and goatces and neither
larger than a good-sized doll. The
woman with the liberal supply Of
limbs was Mile Christine, whose
exhibition in this city, at the As
sembly Building, eight years ago,
created stir among the physicians
who had her before them for sew
eral days, at jefferson Medical
College, and afterward delivered
lectures on her. For the past eight
years she has been on tour of ex~
hibition in Europe, under the
management Of Mr.. Smith, who re-
turned to this country with her four
weeks ago, and has since exhibited
her and the dwaris in Boston and
other New England cities They
came to Philadelphia from Bridge
port, Connecticut, yesterday, under
an arrangement with Comps Eqnes~
curriculum, where they make their
first appearance to-day.
The Nightingale is twenty-sevcn
years old. She was born in Colnm-
bus county, North Carolina, Of
slave parents. There were fifteen
children in the family, the others
all being perfectly formed, as are
the parents. The woman has been
on exhibition since she was two
years old. She has had an event
ful experience. Twice she has been
stolen, once from New Orleans
where she was on exhibition. In
few months she turned up in a New
York orphan asylum. Her owner
(this was in slave times) got her
back again. A few months later
she was stolen for the second time
and turned mp in England, where
the enterprising thief was exhibit
ing her Again her owner got her
back. She was exhibited all over
the United States afterward, and
then taken to the old country. III
London the newspaper men give
her the name Of Nightingale on ac-
count of her vocal powers. She
sings well, dances we'll and speaks
three or four different languages,
among them French.
The two heads sit on her should.
ers at angles to each other, so that
the net which keeps up the hair of
one touches the net which keeps
up the hair OF the other, and if the
owner wills it the Two heads may
bump against each other, like
playing bones in the hands Of an
expert. The singular part is her
conversation. Ole tongue begins
to talk. the eyes brighten, the face
becomes animated st this point
the observer catches sight Of the
other face looking over the other
shoulder with h sort of grin on il
anI the other eyes with IL leer in
them. A man may be used if his
attention strays at this point and
the utterances Of the first tongue
become lost on him in contempla =
ting the other physiognomical APP
partition. Presently the second
tongue begins to talk, too, and
| there is Il sort of race between
them. One face is rather mascu
line and the other feminine, and
the voices vary similarly. In talk
lug the tongues chip in and cross
each other. 10 get an idea of the
effect of conversation with her the
reader must imagine il the follow
ing that the italics represent the
feminine tongue and the olher foin
| the masculine:
"How did you like Europe p
"Ilihe0 1t very much. 1 liked
Eng-Frauce liked, too, land bet
ter than nearly as any other. we'll
as England. It's more The French
IKE America. people are very Tile
Italians nice. are g,ood deGI Amer
lea is my like the Frenct. home,
you know, like aDd [ 10 hdvel
am not rery much. likely to forget