Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-12-25
THE CAROLINA TWINS.
Mile CHRISTINE, After Eight Years Al.
sence. Comes Back to Philadelphia.
and With Two Tongues. Gives Her
Impressions Of Foreign Travel.
PHILADELPHIA Times. Dec. Is.

| Impressions OF Foreign Travel.
Philadelphia Times, Dec. Is.
The Two-headed Nightingale and
party was what the register of an up
town hotel showed last night. 1t wasn't
a 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 evident that he had stored up
some fine anticipations as to the sur
prise this singular announcement would
cause people when they ran their ewes
over the register, 1t was not every day
a colored woman with two heads, four
arms. four legs, four eyes, four ears,
two noses, two mouths and two tongues
registered ut that hotel and the clerk
" rs bound To make the most of it. The
Nightingale and party" consisted of
two Italian dwaris, both in top-boots
and moustaches and goatees and neither
larger than n good-slzed doll. The wo-
man with the liberal supply Of limbs
was Mile CHRISTINE, whose exhibition
IN this city, at the assembly building.
eight years ago, created stir among
the physicians who had her before them
for several days ut Jefferson Medical
! College, and ufterward delivered lee.
lures on her. For the past eight years
she has been on n tour OF exhibition in
Europe, under the management Of Mr..
smith, who returned to this country
with her four weeks ago, and has since
exhibited her and the dwarls IN Boston
and other New England cities. They
came to Philadelphia from Bridgeport,
Connecticut, Yesterday, under an ar
rangement with Coups Equescurriculm,
where they make their first appearance
to-day.
The Nightingale is twenty-seven years
old. She was born in Columbus coun-
| ty, North Carolina. of slave parents.
There were fifteen children in the fam
! lily, the others all being perfectly form
ed, rs were their 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 "A 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 sec
ond time, and turned up in England,
where the enterprlslng thief was exhib
lung her. Again her owner got her
back. She was exhibited all over the
United States aiterward, and then .aken
To the old country. In London the
newspaper men gave her the name of
Nightingale. on account of her vocal
powers. She sings well, dances well,
| l1 y,,,r a 49,.
guages, among them French.
The two heads sit on her shoulders ut
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 il the two
heads may bump against each other,
like playing bones in the hands of an
export. The singular part is her con
versation. One tongue begins to talk j,
the eyes brighten, the face becomes ami
mated. At this point the observer
catches sight Of the other face looking
over the other should sr with sort of
grin on it and the other eyes with n
| leer in them. A man may ae excused
! il his attention strays ut this point and
| the utterances OF the first tongue be-
come lost on him IN contemplating the
other physoguomical apparitlon. Pre-
sently the second tongue begins to talk
| too, ana there is II sort of race between
| them. One face is rather masculine
and the other feminine, and the voices
very similar In talking the tongues
"chip I'M AVID cross each other. To get
al idea Of the effect Of conversation
with her the reader must imagine in the
| following that the italics represent the
| feminine tongue and the other form the
masculine:
How did you like Europe"
81 hked IL tery much. hied Eng
France | liked, too, hind beit,r than near
y as aug oth,r well rs England. Its
more The French ike ADs7ica. people
are very The Haiians nice. are II g0od
deal America Is my ike The French.
home you know, like and II, toui am
not u1y much. likely to forget it. |
WAS born There is u gye1a deai 10 in North
Carolina. see in was the aid WorLt, in
South Carolina cspeciaLy IN during the
war. London and Paris."
From the above comprehensive state
ment it will be evident To the reader
tlat she cam accomplish just TWICE. "o
much talking AZ women IN general, and
more than that, she is talking on two
different phases Of the subject mt the
same time.
Get up and walk, Nightingale"
said the manager.
TIE one face grlnned, while the other
! looked solemn. She took herself up
off the sofa and walked across the room
erect on her four legs and came back
on her two legs. The dwaris who are
| exhibited with her are the Brothers