The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-08-13
The Two-Heatled Nightingale.

| Miss Mlllie Christine, or Christine Milli6
or the Misses Mile and Christine the tw,
lhyphenated mulaito women otherwise known
as The two headed nightingale" having just re
turned from visit to Europe, are now givinl
receptions at Brunell's Broadway Museum II
New York city. The World gives this accoun
Of them, or her
She, as The twins are commonly called, was
born of slave parents in North Carolina THIRTY
years ago. She Is two persons with but sin
gle waist, four legs that walk as two. Their,
Is one trunk, furnishing the vitality for two
distinct and well-develOped busts, each sur
mounted by u head of more than average size
When she was little girl she was abducted
and carried to Europe. Afterwards she wa,
recaptured aud since then has been exhibited
all over the world. Mile Christine always
speaks OF herself with either mouth as |.
never using the plural We" to which she Il
clearly entitled. She is very modest and lady
| like in appearing, :, although the Crab-like pro
erosion on four legs or the hen-like walk On
two legs, at her own pleasure, is more remark
able than graceful. She occupies one chair
when seated.
Yesterday World reporter attempted 10
converse with both of her ut once. 1t took
him some time t. discover which part OF her
was Milly and which Christine. To find any
Young woman who can converse fluently and
intellgently in English French, German, ltal.
i'm aud Spanish is not common; to find two
mOulhed woman who can cOnlemporaneously
discourse with two persons in any two of these
five languagesjOn any topic, is something nov
lei. Yet this Is what MilleChristine can do /;
or she can sing a duet very nicely, or sing and
tulL NJ hn fitpa A nnnofipn Hiracfa oil
generally at her is answered by both of her.
different words being used, but both minds
reaching the same conclusion. Millie.Chris-
tine has been received by Queen Victoria, the
Prince of Wales and IN the language OF the ad-
vertsement "by all the crowned heads of Eu-
rope"
what aid Queen Victoria say to you TASK
ed the reporter.
"Oh the same as any one. She wanted to
know where | was born, how old | was, if | ii
always been so-all the foolish questions that
common people ask"
What is the most foolish question any one
ever asked your
That would be hard to say. I've got so
used to 1t now that il is only once IN great
while one asks something that makes me laugh
and say to myself, That's new, anyhow Ev
erybody asks some foolish questiOn-everyb0dy
How do you do on the carst'
zone holds the ticket to the conductor. and
If he objects he is told he CAP put the other off"
How would you do if one were hard-shell
Baptist and wanted to be immersed, and the
other insisted on spriDknngT
IL never have any differences ofopinion and
always agree on everything to wear, eat,
say or do. The two mouths only eat about as
much as one ordinary body would require,
and make all my own dresses"
How If one had lover and the other had.
nt?"
One laughing and the other with tawny
blush replied: :" have good many admirers
but no lovers. | haven't got so far rs that yet"
Mille.C Christine now owns the North Caro-
lima plantation on which she was born and she
has its old father and mother living on the
place One OF her looks Il trtie older than the
other of her but it would not be proper to say
which Oft ii is.