The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-01-09
THE NORTH CAROLINA TWINS.
She, or They Return from Abroad.

"The Two.headed Nightingale aud
party" was what the register Of an up
town 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.
Not every day colored woman with
two heads, four arms, four legs, four eyes,
four ears, two noses, two mouths aud two
tongues registered at that hotel, and the
clerk was bound to make the most OF it.
The "and party" consisted of two Italian
dwarls, both in top boots and moustaches
and goalees and neither larger than a
good-sized doll. The woman with the
liberal supply of limbs was Millie Chris
line, whose exhibition in this city, at
the Assembly Bnilding eight years ago,
created a stir among the physicians who
had her before them for several days,
at Jefferson Medical College, and after
wards delivered lectures on her. For the
past eight years she has been on tour
of exhibition in Europe, under the man
agement of Mr.. Smith, who returned to
this country with her four weeks ago, and
has since exhibited her and the dwaris in
Boston and other New England cities.
The Nightingale is twenty.seven years
old. She was born in Columbus county,
North Carolina, of slave parents. There
were fifteen children in family, the 9TH
ers all being perfectly formed, as are the
parents. TIE woman has been on exhi-
bition since s.e was two years old. She
has had an eventful experience. Twice
she has been stolen, once from New Or
leans where she was on exhibition. In
few months she turned up in 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 enterprising thief was exhib-
iting her. Again her owner got her
back. She was exhibited all over the
United States afterward, and then taken
to the old country. In London the news.
paper men give her the name ofNightin-
gale on account her vocal powers. She
sings well, dances well, and speaks three
or four different languages, among them
French.
The two heads sit on her shoulders at
angles to each other, so that the net which
keeps up the hair ofthe 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 play
ing bones in the hands ofan expert. The
singular part is her conversation. One
tongue begins to talk. the eyes brighten,
the face becomes animated. At this
point the observer catches sight of the
other face looking over the other shoul-
der with n sort of grin on it, and the 9th
er eyes with lcer in them. 4 man be
excused if his attention strays at this
point,and the utterances ofthe FIRST tongue
become lost on him in contemplating
the other pbysiognomical arparition.
Presently the second tongue begins to
talk too, and there is sort of race be-
tween them. One face is rather mascu-
line and the other feminine, and the
voices vary similarly. In talking the
tongues "chip in" and cross each other.
From the above comprehensive state
ment it will be evident to the reader that
she can accomplish just twice as much
talking as women in general, and. more
than that, she is talking on two different
phases Of the subject at the same time.
SECT up and walk, Nightingale" said
the manager.
The one face grinned, 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.-PhIadelphia Times.