Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-20
The Two.IIended Nlrhtlngnle.

Miss Millie-Christine, or Miss
n Chrlstine-Millie, or the Misses Nil.
lie and Christine, the ihyphenated
mullatto women, otherwise "the
two-headed nightingale, will give
q daily receptions at Bunnell's Broad
way Museum, beginning to-mor-
row. She, as the twins are com
Il monty called, was born of slave
I parents in North Carolina thirty
years ago. She is two persons with
a single waist, four legs that walk
as two. There IS one trunk, furnish
ing the vitality for tive distinct and
| well developed busts, each surmoun-
4 ted by head of more than average
] size. When she was little girl
she was abducted and carried to
Europe. Afterwards she was recap
tured and since then has been. exhib-
Lifted all over the world. Millie-
Christine always speaks of. herself
\ with either mouth indifferently as
1''I'' never using the plural 'swe,o TO
which she is clearly entitled. She
is very modest and llldy-like in APP
pearance, although the crab-like
progression on four legs or the hem
like walk on two legs, at her own
pleasure, is more remarkable than
graceful. She occupies one chair
when seated. -
Yesterday a reporter attempted to
converse with both of her at once.
1t took him some time to discover
which part of her was Milly and
which Christine. TO find any
young woman VINO can converse fiu- /
entity and intelligently in English,
French, German, italian and Span
ish, is not common to find two
mouthed woman who can contem-
poraneously discourse with two per
sons in any two of these five lam
guages, on any topic, is something
novel. Yet, this is what Millie- |
Christine can do or she can sing a |
duet very nicely, or sing and talk at |
the same time. Aquestion directed |
generally at her is answered by |
both of her, different words being
used, but both minds reaching the
same conclusion. Millie-Christine /
has been received by Queen VictO-
ria, the Prince of Wales and, in the
language of the advertisement, "by /
all the crowned heads of Europe"
"What did Queen Victoria say to
you ?n asked the reporter.
.'Oh, the same as any one. She
wanted to know where / was born.
how old was, If I'd always been
so-all the foolish questions that
people ask" g
"What is themost foolish question
any one ever asked you ?"
"That would be hard to say. I've
got so used to it now that it Is only
once in great while one asks some
thing that makes me laugh and say
TO myself, That's new, anyhow
Everybody asks some foolish ques-
tions-everybody but newspaper
men," with laugh.
"How do you do on the cars ?"
zone hands the ticket to the con-
ductor, and if he objects he is told
he can put the other Off"
"How would you do if one were
4 hard-shell baptist and wanted to
be immersed, and the other insisted
On sprinkling ?"
81 never have any differences of ,
opinion and always agree on every
to wear, eat, say or do. /
The two mouths only eat about as
much as one ordinary body would
require, and make all Iuy dresses" :
"How if one had lover and the
)ther hadn't?'
One laughed and the other with a
awny blush replied: 81 have a ,
rood many admires but no lovers. ,
haven't got so far as that yet"
Millie-Christine now owns the ,
North Carolina plantation on which /
The was born and she has her :
I'D father and mother Lying on the !
place. One of her looks a trifie !
,lder than the other of her, but it :
would not be proper to say which !
If it it is. 9