EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2471, 12 May 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITION.

Asiajt with two mouths is the latest curiosity in New York. He is a blonde young man, with a smooth face and a sort of sewer-gas expression, who sits on a platform, drinks water with one mouth and simultaneously smokes a cigarette with the other, and does various other similar duets for the delectation of the mob. His upper mouth is in the fashionable locality, and constitutes a mediumsized aperture immediately under his nose and immediately over his chin. His other one is underneath his chin. The lower one is not good for much as he has had brass lips fitted to it, and the twoheaded cow,who felt quite badly when he came, has become reconciled after watching his performances. Otto Telpefer is the man. In a talk with him, says a correspondent, Otto did not exhibit that satisfaction over his unusual blessings that one might expect. He said that he was born that way, aud could not help it. His folks were poor, and he supposed it was a sort of congenital sarcasm on his parents, who already had more mouths to till than the larder was equal to. When Otto talks he uses his upper mouth, and shuts the lower one with his finger. This gives him a sort of flageolet manner that is a little trying. It seems as if he were playing conversational tunes on himself. Otto is not a pleasant object to gaze at excessively, and as a wall decoration he would not succeed. The brass cap on the unnecessary aperture in his windpipe gives him a sort of Frankenstein look, and conveyß the idea of chamois skin and a morocco leather heart. He does not look at all happy.