The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-02-08

THE two.hcadcd Nightingale and party
was what the register of nm up town hotel
showed last night. 1t wasn't bird or any
other species of biped So far from having
two legs ii had four, The hotel clerk was in
a constant grin, 1t was evident that he had
stored up some fine anticlpatons us TO the sur
prise this singular announcement would cause
people when they ran their eyes over the reg
lister II was not every day cOlOred woman
with two heads, ioura arms, four legs, tourcyes,
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 woman
with the liberal supply of limbs was Mile
! Christine whose exhibition in this city, at the
Assembly Building created Il stir among the
| physicians who had her before them for sew
cral days, at jefferson Medical College and
atterward delivered lectures on her, For the
past eight years she has been on a tour at gN-
hibllion in Europe
| The Nightingale is ., years old. She was
born in Columbus county, n. C., Of slave par
entS There were fifteen children in inc iami-
| ly, the others being perfectly formed, as are
the parents. The woman has been ON exhibit
| ton since she was two years old, She has had
an eventual experience Twice she has been
stolen, once from New Orleans where she was
on exhibition. In Il few months she turned
up in Il New York orphan asylum. Her own
cr 0hiS was in slave tines got her back again.
A few months later she was stolen for the sec
ond time, and turned up III England, where
the enterprsing thief was exhibiting her.
Again her owner rot her back. She was cX-
hibilcd all over the United States atterward,
and then taken to the old country. In London
the newspaper men gave hcrthc name Of Night
ingale on account of her vocal powers, She
| sings 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 Of one touches the net which keeps
up the hair of the other, and, if the owner wills
1t, the two heads may bump against each 9th
or, like playing bones in the hands of an cX-
lpert 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 look
ing over the other shoulder with a sort of grin
on il, and the other eyes with Il leer in them.
a man may be excused if his attention strays
at the point, and the uttcranccs of the first
tongue become lost on him in contemplating
the other physiognomical apparltion Pres
emily the second tongue begins to talk, too
and there is 4 sort Of race between them. One
face is rather masculine, and the other temi-
nlnc, and the voices vary similarly. In talk.
inc the tongues "chip in' and cross each 9th
or. To get an idea of the effects OF Conversa-
ton with her the reader must imagine in the
following that the italics represent the fcmi
nine tongue, and the other form the mascu
line.
"lIow did you like Europc?'
~ Nhed IL cc,y mtch / hhc Eng France 1
liked, too, }and btfter Han nearly as any ether,
well rs England. It's more The French Hkc
1meric0 people are very The Ualiaas nice are
| II 0DOd deW America is NV ike tie FrrHrh