Pig-human Hybrids

    A pig with a human face is in the possession of D. A. Sammis of No. 64 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn. It is one of the most remarkable monsters ever produced by an aberration of nature.
    The pig is dead and is preserved in a spirit jar, which enables its strangely human features to be inspected.
    The pig’s head differs from a human being’s only in having the long, pointed ears belonging to normal members of its family. This gives it somewhat the appearance of a goblin or other creature of the imagination, with a partly human shape.
    The head, apart from the ears, is like that of an old man. It is free from all hair except eyebrows. These are well grown and are a remarkable abnormality in a pig. The forehead is high and the skull is rounded at the top of human shape. It suggests considerable intelligence and a well-balanced character.
    The whole face is oval in shape and is similar to that of an old man of dignified appearance. There is rather too little nose for a very good looking man, but still, this member is distinctly human in shape. It is small and snub, and is utterly different from the sharp snout of a the pig
    The chin is heavy and well rounded. It is perhaps the most human of all the features. The eyes are much larger than those of an ordinary pig. The skin is as white and smooth as that of a delicate woman. Although it must be called a monster, on account of its strange physical abnormality, the little pig is not repulsive. On the contrary, it is quite amusing in appearance. If it were alive and well, it would be a decidedly interesting animal to have about the house.
    How it came to die is a curious story. It was born on May 12 last on a rancho near Arecibo, on the island of Porto Rico, in the West Indies. The mother produced only this one animal at the time, itself a very unusual circumstance.
    In spite of its grotesque appearance the little pig seemed to enjoy good physical health. But his mother had no affection for him. She was disgusted and alarmed at his unnatural features. She gave him little nourishment, and in consequence he died on May 18. The fact that he remained alive for six days in a half starved condition shows that he must have entered life with fair health.
    The mother is a perfectly black sow and perhaps this fact increased her feeling of repulsion for a young one with human features and a very white skin.

    One of the most singular freaks of nature we ever saw has been on exhibition at the post office, at this place, during the past week. It is a pig with a human face! Its shape and structure are natural up to the ears, but from the ears to the top of head and down to the chin the shape and features are those of the human, excepting that it is covered with hair like the rest of the body and has no nostrils, being obliged to breathe through the mouth. The pig is about two weeks old.—Elizabeth City North Carolinian

    Laura Galloway, a colored woman who resides on Fourth and Dawson streets, in Wilmington, is the owner of a sow with a litter of six pigs. There is nothing singular in that fact, but the extraordinary part of it is that one of the pigs has the perfect ears of a child, has a human hand on the right side, and sits erect like a child. It moves backward all the time instead of forward. It also has a full set of teeth and long tusks like a grown hog. The pig’s face is also partly human and it has to be fed from a bottle.

    A Curious Freak of Nature.—A correspondent whose truthfulness we will vouch for, sends us the following account of a “child-pig” which was born in Northhampton a few days ago: On Thursday, 24th, a sow, the property of Jacob Benjamin, a tenant on the Maratock plantation in Occoneechee Neck, Northampton County, farrowed and among the pigs there appeared a monstrosity, astonishing and almost incredible. The thing was a female, assuming the form of a child and pig. The body was that of a natural pig to the shoulders, while from the latter arms, instead of legs, protruded, with elbows, wrists, hands and requisite number of fingers with nails, and inclined towards the head, as a child in the act of clasping its hands together. The head was human in form possessing the expression and features of a pig. It lived eight or ten hours, its cries being those of an infant in distress. Over a hundred people visited the premises, to witness this curious freak of nature—“half child, half pig,” and will corroborate the facts as given.—Weldon News

On the place of a gentleman named McKee in South Point Township, Gaston County, about 15 miles from this city [i.e., Charlotte], is a pig, born like other pigs with the exception that where one of the fore legs ought to be is in place a perfectly shaped human hand with four fingers and a thumb, with well developed nails upon them. There is another exception. On the other fore leg is a toe like those of a human being. The pig is six weeks old. It carries its hand in front and parallel with the body as if in a sling and runs on its three legs much faster, even, than the other pigs with four. The owner of this pig wants $500 for him. A gentleman of this city, Mr. C. S. Mallard, who was at the farm yesterday and examined the monstrosity offered the owner $30 for it but understood from his reply that he couldn’t “touch it with a forty-foot pole.” Dr. J. C. Bauman, a practicing physician of Gaston County, made a scientific examination of it and says the bones and ligaments are those of a perfectly formed hand. It will doubtless prove to be worth all the owner asks for it.—Charlotte Observer, May 15.

A Monstrosity

A Pig with Human Hands

    Mr. Albert C. Knipp, who resides five miles south of Napoleon on the farm of the late Peter Knipp, reported the birth of a monstrosity on Saturday, in the shape of a pig, which instead of having natural legs and feet had three appendages which resembled the human arm upon which are three shapes like the human hand. The other leg and foot is natural.
    This monstrosity is one of a litter of pigs numbering fifteen, twelve of which are living, and in all respects it is healthy with good prospects of maturing. Mr. Knipp intends to care for it and take all the necessary pains to have it live, and if he is successful will exhibit the curiosity at the Napoleon Fair this fall.

    The Lansdale Reporter says that a short time ago a sow belonging to Mr. Wimerlick, of Franconian Township, near Sonderton, gave birth to a litter of pigs, and one of the number, instead of having its front legs like a pig, had human arms, elbows, hands, four fingers and a thumb, and even the nails on the fingers were perfect like those of a human being. It did not live.

A Pig With an Arm and Hand

Henry Sclater, of Norristown, has a litter of seven young pigs, one of which is a monstrosity of an unusual type, combining with its porcine construction a portion of the human anatomy. The left forelimb, instead of being a leg, is like the arm of an infant. At the extremity is a hand, containing a thumb and four taper fingers, which are regular in form, even to the nails.

D. M. Hensley, the well known taxidermist in this city, is busily at work stuffing the little pig which was born on the Gephart farm some days ago, the feet of which resembled the hands of a human being. The pig is a freak and Mr. Hensley will have it on display in a few days. It will no doubt attract attention.

Mrs. Mary Mason, who is a grocerykeeper, has a freak of nature in the form of a pig which was born with a human faoe. It lived only eleven hours and has been preserved in alcohol. It was one of a litter of eleven, the rest of which did not offend nature.

South Norwalk, Conn., April 23—A pig with ears, nose and mouth almost human in character, yet otherwise a perfect pig, was born here and is causing a tumult among scientists. The pig was born in the piggery of Albert Kunze, and while a sow usually gives birth to eight or ten pigs, this porcine monstrosity carried out its human resemblance by being born alone.

THIS HOG HAS HUMAN FACE, IS DECLARED

    ROCKPORT, Mo., June 2.—Mrs. Lillie L. Breauzeal of this town has a freak hog which is different from anything ever heard of here. The front of the head of the animal resembles a human face and it has no hoofs. It is without hair except small patches over its eyes.

Pig Has Human Face

Sturgis, Ky., May 16th.—Perhaps one of the most peculiar freaks ever known is the human-faced pig now three days old, at the home of J. S. Hancock, on the E. B. Jones farm.

Mrs. Hancock feeds the pig with a spoon as she would feed a baby. The mouth, nose, eyes, forehead and chin are identical with that of a human. It is one of ten pigs having a body as perfect as any of them.

    The Louisville Journal of the 6th says: At the drug store of G. W. Anderson, corner of Fifteenth and Walnut streets, yesterday afternoon, we saw a most extraordinary monstrosity — shocking, enormous, and horrible. It was a pig with a clearly defined human face. The chin, mouth and eyes are particularly noticeable for their similarity to those of a man, though the nose is not so much so; it turns up very unlike a pig’s, and has no nostrils. The animal was therefore necessitated to eat and breathe through the mouth at the same time. This strange creature lived about thirty hours, and during that time cried like a child, made a noise like an ape, and sometimes grunted like a pig. Its body is like a well-shaped pig, and rather larger than those animals generally are at such an age. The owner of the sow, its mother, was afraid of it and gave it to the druggist above named, who had it preserved in alcohol. The curious can see it by calling at the drug store.

A freak is to be seen at the farm of Frank Gagnon, five miles south of town on the reservation. It is a well developed pig, born with a litter of several others, but differing from them in this point: For one leg and foot it has a perfectly formed arm and hand, and on the remaining three legs, instead of feet, are hands. The mother sow refuses to accept her freak offspring, and Mrs. Gagnon is raising it “on the bottle.” She has refused two offers, one of $50 and one of $100 for the animal.—Athena Press.

A LUSUS NATURAE

The Pig Born in Friendship, Crockett County, with a Human Head and Face—Statement of Eye-Witnesses

To the editors of the Appeal.

FRIENDSHIP, CROCKETT CO., August 28.— Having seen a statement going the rounds of the papers that a pig with a human face was found near Dyersburg on the seventh instant [i.e., Aug. 7, 1877], we propose to make some corrections and give the case alluded to more in detail: Said pig was delivered of a fine young Berkshire sow in this village and county on the fourth instant, and was one of a litter of ten pigs. The sow had been bred to a Jersey red boar previously and, as stated, brought a litter of ten pigs on the fourth instant. The entire litter was beautifully spotted, red and black, exhibiting a genuine cross between the black and Jersey red. The pig in question was the fourth farrowed, and was dead when expelled. It was brought to our office in a few minutes afterward by Mr. Wyatt Lunceford, of this place. It was a perfect, well-developed pig, from its head back. Its head was shaped after that of a rather thin-visaged child, with a perfect, though rather narrow, human face. The nose resembled a human nose, somewhat shrunken from loss of the nasal bones. The right ear was a well-formed hog’s ear, while the left, in rather a rudimentary state, resembled a human ear. The hair on the head was uniformly red, very soft and downy, making quite a contrast with the coarser spotted hair covering the body. The face, including the forehead, which was very high and free from hair, was perfectly smooth and as tender as an infant’s. That portion of the head formed by the frontal and temporal bones was as perfect human in resemblance as could be. The eyes, when the lids were drawn apart, presented a beautiful blue color, with a freshness unusual in a dead infant. Its tongue was wide and thin, just like an infant’s tongue. It had but one tooth, and that was a perfectly formed incisor. This monster pig was put by us in alcohol, and intended to be preserved for future study, but unfortunately it began to decay in a few days, and our best efforts to preserve it were unavailing. It was visited, however, by hundreds of people (and among the number several intelligent physicians), by whom the above facts can be corroborated. If we had not felt confident that we could preserve it, we would have had its photograph taken, which we now exceedingly regret not doing. Respectfully,

    They had strange doings up at Friendship the other day. Mr. Adams, the blacksmith at that place, has a sow which on the 7th instant dropped a litter of pigs, one of which has a perfect human face and head, the rest of its formation being that of any other pig. It has red hair on its head; its mouth, teeth, and eyes are strangely human, while one ear is that of a hog, the other is that of a little child. This new and strange production is the wonder of the neighborhood. Dr. Duffie, the druggist at Friendship, has preserved it in alcohol and hundreds are flocking to see it daily. We got our information from Capt. Tom Jones and Mr. John McFee, both of whom we have known for years to be truthful and honorable gentlemen. Both of them have seen the pig and we are satisfied that the facts are as stated above.

     We were shown, Tuesday, at the office of Dr. G. B. Henry, of this city, a nondescript animal which is without a parallel in our observations of natural history. The body is six or eight inches in length, and was evidently that of a pig before birth. The head is a strange combination in some respects almost startling the beholder with its indications of a human face. The lower jaw is like that of a child, and the outline of the head is more human than brute. The upper jaw is that of a hog, while the eyes and nose are unlike anything we ever saw before. The eyes are located side by side, closely together, and below the nostrils. The latter are comprised in a long, fleshy protuberance from the upper part of the forehead, projecting forward and downward, like the the trunk of an elephant, to the mouth. This freak of nature was found on Tuesday at G. H. Shenck’s slaughter house, and was placed in the hands of the medical fraternity as a curiosity for preservation.—Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye

EXTRAORDINARY FREAK OF NATURE

A short time since Charles Mill, living at [the hamlet of] Crawley, near [the village of] Uley [in Gloucestershire], had a pig which brought forth young to the number of ten, several of which were more or less deformed, one in a most extraordinary and wonderful manner. It had the perfect form of a human face (with eyes, nose, mouth, teeth and tongue) which was perfectly upright. There were no hind legs, but two marks where legs ought to have been [the incidence of missing or stump appendages is elevated in hybrids]. There were two fore legs, on each of which were five fingers, and the hand represented a human being. The ears, which were not upright, but were situated along the side of the face, were half pig and half human in appearance. It was born alive. The face and forehead were quite bare of hair, but the hinder part was covered with hair, as of a pig. The circumstance caused much talk in the neighbourhood.

An appalling monstrosity was birthed by a pig in Ingeldorf [(Luxembourgish: Angelduerf), a small town in the commune of Erpeldange, in central Luxembourg], that is, among nine piglets, one had a well-developed human head, but it lived but half an hour. [Translated by E. M. McCarthy. Original German]

From Offenbach we have a bit of natural history news, the truth of which we cannot confirm. A few days ago, supposedly, a sow belonging to a jailer there gave birth to six offspring, among whom one had the face, and indeed the fully formed head, of a human being. A pig with a human head would be as great an oddity as a human with the head of a pig! One might ask whether this curious pig in a good educational institution might be trained to be a useful and peaceable citizen of human society, devoted to salvation and the good? [Translated by E. M. McCarthy. Original German]

An extraordinary specimen of the “freaks of nature” is in the possession of Mr. O. I. Cavanough, chemist, in the shape or form of an infant pig with a head of human appearance. The “monstrosity” comes from Mr. Brandt’s farm, Six-Mile, and is certainly one of the most extraordinary cases of lusus naturae we have seen.

    We copy the following account of a wonderful production of nature from the Sacramento (California) Union.
    “Dropping into the K Street drugstore yesterday, we observed Dr. Logan busily engaged in his office, making a drawing of the most monstrous lusus naturae we ever saw. It was no less than an abortive attempt on the part of Dame Nature to manufacture a human being out of a hog. The animal had attained its complete fetal growth, and was one of a litter of well and naturally formed pigs. The particular one in question, however, is entirely destitute of hair, while the skin is white and smooth. The forehead and head are full and round, and at about the same facial angle as that of the Caucasian race. In lieu of the nose, a proboscis, in exact miniature shape of an elephant’s, proceeds from above and between the eyes, and rests on the upper lip. The eyes are large, round, and full as a man’s. The lower jaw and chin project beyond the upper, and the tongue protrudes a little beyond the lips. The ears are flattened, and laid back against the side of the head. Indeed, the whole contour and figure of the head and face are those of a human being while the rest of the strange animal partakes of the characteristic formation of the porcine species. We understand that this phenomenon was obtained by a gentleman of this city from one of the neighboring mining districts, and that he intends sending it to Europe, in order to give the savants there an opportunity to speculate concerning its formation.”

    Charles A. Clark an undertaker and embalmer, has in his establishment the remains of a young pig, which is one of the greatest freaks of nature ever seen in Jacksonville, Fla. It is the property of E. A. Lindsey, of Springfield, and is one of a litter of eleven pigs. Ten of these pigs are perfectly formed and are thriving, but the one in question was born dead.

    It is about twice the size of the other pigs of the same litter, and is perfectly hairless, except for a small patch of whiskers on the chin. The head of this freak is human shaped. The ears are set on the side of the head like those of a human being, but are larger and shaped like an elephant’s ear. The chin, mouth and cheeks are human shaped, while the teeth are like a shark’s. It has no nose, but instead a perfectly shaped trunk extends from the base of the forehead just where the root of the nasal organ should be.

    Immediately under the root of the trunk is situated one large egg shaped eye, with two large, round pupils (one at each end of the eye), which peeps out from under and on either side of the trunk. Each pupil or eye is shaded by white eyebrows, which very much resemble the velvety brows of an infant. The trunk is nearly four inches in length and is perfectly pliable. The hoofs of the feet are goat shaped and turn up at the points like those of a mountain goat. Taken as a whole it is the most hideous looking object ever seen in Jacksonville.

The Chattanooga Times thus describes a monstrosity now on exhibition at a drug store in that city:

The curiosity in question is a pig, with the skin of a human infant, a human face in everything except a trunk with the exact conformation of the elephant’s. The skin is velvety, entirely devoid of hair. The face is a curious mixture of animal and human. The skin is all human, and so are the eyes and forehead; the eyes having well-defined brows. The forehead, chin, cheeks and nose, or trunk, make up a countenance not at all unlike one of Nast’s caricatures of Boss Tweed. The ears, body, legs, feet and tail are pig and nothing else. The trunk projects in the same place as the trunk of an elephant, and beneath it is a mouth so human in expression that it raises a doubt whether it can belong to an infant swine. The pig was born on a farm in the eleventh district and lived fifteen minutes after birth.

A pig was born recently in Columbus with a half human face and head, perfect chin and mouth, signs of a large tusk on one side of the mouth, and a perfect elephant’s trunk extended from the forehead, with ears similarly shaped to those of an elephant. It will be an interesting fact to psychologists to know that a circus had passed through Columbus some months before this pig was born, and that there was an elephant with it. The maternal sow may have seen the elephant—hence the above monstrosity.^†

    …Most famous among these freaks will be two Half-Human Pigs, which were born recently near Contestee [an unincorporated community in Greenville County, South Carolina], and which have been exhibited in several cities in this neighborhood. These pigs have been seen by over ten thousand people, and have been examined by doctors from far and near, and it is believed, that due to their unusual characteristics, they will eventually find their way to the Smithsonian Institute at Washington.
    One of these half-human pigs has a perfect human head, has fingernails instead of hoofs, and before it died at the age of six days, cried like a baby. This pig has apparently two human eyes that grew together into one,^‡ and other human features that are deeply amazing. The other pig, from the same litter, has a perfect human skull, large blue eyes, and three human teeth. It also died after living for a week.
    These two pigs have created unusual interest wherever they have been exhibited, and the local Lions club feels that it is very lucky to secure the permission of the owner to exhibit them here in Greenwood for those who like to see and study such freaks of nature.…

    The Manawatu Times says:—On Saturday, the 12th instant, at Mr. Waldegrave’s farm, near to this township, was born a pig—that is if the animal can any longer be classified a pig—that has an elephant’s head upon it. There is no exaggeration whatever in this statement; not only is the shape of the head of the elephant most clearly defined, but the trunk, about three inches long, is quite perfect. The mongrel lived for twenty-four hours, and is now in pickle awaiting further investigation. A fine subject, no doubt, for investigators of the Darwinian theory. The museum at Wellington should secure this strange monstrosity, being, we expect, the first of its kind.

A "Human" Pig

    A peculiar freak of nature has been discovered at Hubbard. Warren Watkins, a farmer, on going to his pigpen, found a monstrosity in the shape of a newly-born pig. The animal had an almost human face, and was considered one of the greatest curiosities ever seen in that vicinity. The body was naturally formed and differed in no respect from the ordinary pig.

    Warren Watkins, a farmer living near Hubbard, Minn., has a pig with an almost human face, the body being formed like the ordinary piglet. Its proboscis is very much like that of an elephant. Hundreds of persons have viewed the freak.

Man, Elephant and Pig

A dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette from Martin’s Ferry, reads: "Wellsville leads in the procession of monstrosities. It has a pig eight inches in length, which has four eyes, feet like the hands of a human, distinct fingernails and large ears. The upper part of its face is like that of an elephant, and the lower part like a human. There is a trunk projecting from the middle of the head, which turns backward and lies between the ears. In the end of the trunk are two large holes through which the freak breathes, there being no holes in the nose."

Darwin’s Monkey Beat

Professor Rudolph Mayer, of this town, has a pig whose head and features, with the exception of the ears and snout, are those of a human being. The ears are those of a pig. The snout is neither pig nor human, but is a genuine snout like that of an elephant, hanging from the forehead. The skull is evidently human, having apparently the front and back brain, which no ordinary pig has. The face, eyes and mouth are all alike the human. The pig is about the size of a rat, and , with seven other ordinary pigs was taken from a sow that was slaughtered for pork. It is certainly a curiosity as it is, and would have been a greater one had it been born into actual life. It might have been taught to talk. The hog that goes about with the circus, and plays cards, etc., would have been nowhere beside this human pig. The fortunate owner of the person of this talking pig with human countenance, could have made a fortune exhibiting it, far greater than that of all the Rothschilds’ combined. How near he was to fortune and missed it! If he had only waited a few weeks linger, he would now be the possessor of the greatest living curiosity the world has probably ever seen. It costs nothing to see it now. Professor mayer has it in a small jar of alcohol. It is worth seeing.

A lusus naturae, the production of the Hampden district, is thus described to the Oamaru Mail by Mr. McKay, its owner:—"I have a spotted sow that produced eight young ones, and among them is a most curious nondescript. It is the same size as the other pigs, but has not a hair on it beyond a few bristles on the eyelids. It has a perfectly formed head of exactly the same shape as that of an elephant, with a trunk like that of an elephant, over three inches long, and turned up over the forehead. It has no mouth. It has two large eyes under the head, joined together, each being quite as big as a shilling. The ears are extraordinarily large and are placed on each side of the breast, and they are at least four times as large as the ears of the other pigs. The nostrils are placed between the ears, and quite prominent. The feet are all alike, and of the most extraordinary shape, all the fore toes being at least 1 in. long, and turned up with nobs on them.

A singular lusus naturae (says a Marlborough paper) was shown to us by Mr John Ewart the other day. It was one of a litter of pigs newly farrowed. It had but one eye [cyclops], and that of undue proportion, fixed in the middle of the forehead; and in lieu of snout, an appendage to the forehead like the proboscis of an elephant. With the exception of the feet, which were pointed and hooked, the rest of the animal was perfect. We understand Mr Ewart intends to preserve the body in spirits.

Pig has Human Face in Eye

Freak Porker also has Elephant’s Trunk and is Hairless

Hawkinsville, Ga. — Joseph Fleischman, a merchant of this town, is the owner of one of the greatest freaks of nature ever seen in this part of the south. It is a pig which has a human face in its eye and two noses, one a normal pig’s snout, and the other a diminutive elephant’s trunk, the latter growing from its forehead [i.e., a frontal proboscis]. It has no hair on its body. Fleischman bought the pig from a farmer living half a mile from here.

    We are informed that a colored woman in this county a few days since gave birth to twins, which were from general appearance half pig and half human—the head, eyes and ears of the little ones were those of a pig, while the remainder was that of a human.—Logan County Enterprise

    The Harrison (Iowa) Harrisonian says that on the 2nd inst. a child was born in that town, the body of which was human in form, and the head resembled a pig. The mouth and chin rested on the chest, there being little or no neck, and in the mouth were two tusks resembling a hog’s tusk, some one-half or three-fourths inches long. The eyes were large, and presented a hog-like appearance; there was no forehead, but away back on the apparently brainless head were two pig’s ears—shape, size and all. Across the back, below the shoulders, was a thick, dark stripe; the arms were very long, the feet extra large, and the body heavy and well-developed. It came into the world alive, but died in a few minutes. … [Speculation about the cause of this abnormality omitted here.]

    Wonderful Birth.—A child was born in Estill County last week, near the Clark line, which from the waist up, was a perfect pig, and in its lower extremities was developed like a human. This is no cock and bull story gotten up to furnish an item, but is vouched for by Dr. Aleck Stewart, who saw the singular creature. It lived eight hours, and was seen by a great many people. The names of its parents could be given, but that a regard for their feelings forbid.—Clark County (Ky.) Democrat.

    A Natural Wonder. From New Orleans comes the following news: The faculty of the school of medicine there has a natural wonder under investigation that has its equal nowhere on the face of the earth. The investigation has shown that the creature has a human heart, but lungs that are not like those of a human being. Its face has no cheekbones, the mouth, 100 teeth. The knees and ankles are double jointed. The head is fully three times as long as a human being’s. The ears, which are placed far back on the neck, are those of a swine. The feet and hands are solid bone overgrown with skin, from which the hoofs protrude. The structure of the fingers, muscles and tendons was not described. This creature, which is four years old, has never spoken a word and only grunts. He only eats food that his mother has previously chewed for him, but walks upright like a man. The parents of this being are white and from the interior of the United States. If only this wonder were here for us to see, and not in the United States!

On last Tuesday, February 4, [2016] at Mbuji-Mayi in the commune of Bipemba, one of the towns of the province of Eastern Kasai in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a young woman about 22 years old was delivered of a child having an indefinite form. Witnesses say the child monster had the upper parts of a human being but the lower parts of an animal (pig). Two short arms ended in two small hands with eight fingers, and the two short legs, in two little feet with four toes each. The event took place in the Meda maternity hospital in the Lubuebue quarter of the town around noon local time. The cause of this tragic birth is unknown and remains a mystery.

     Some weeks ago the Register contained a news item to the effect that Mr. Miles Crawford, of Breathitt County [Kentucky], found on his door step one morning an infant, half human and half dog. Last Monday a messenger from Mr. Crawford came into our office to inform us that the item was partially incorrect. A horrible monstrosity—a mixture of hog and human—was found in Mr. Crawford’s corn field one cold morning last January frozen stiff. It was in a little brown sack together with some corn. Some farm-hands came close to the sack and it was accidentally knocked over, when the hideous lump of deformity rolled out. It had three legs, with split hoofs. Its head was of human formation well covered with hair. The mouth was large; the upper lip was hard and gristly, like a hog’s “rooter.” The nose and eyes were considerably more human then hog. The body resembled the human body and was perfectly smooth. There was not hair on any part of it except the head. The discovery of it was a terrible shock to the good people of that neighborhood who keep the even tenor of their way and are not accustomed to dark and mysterious crimes in their midst. A woman whose reputation for chastity is not the best in the world, came to Mr. Crawford the day before the discovery to beg some corn. Mr. Crawford went into his field and husked some corn which the women took and put in a little brown sack. She complained of being sick and stopped a while in the house to warm. She left and went across the field in the direction of her home. Mr. Crawford identified the sack found by the farm hands as the same carried by the woman, and suspicion at once fastened upon her. She has been driven from the community by the outraged and justly indignant citizens, but the mystery will ever remain unsolved.—Richmond Register

A Curious Freak

A curious freak of nature can be seen at the farm of R. C. Ansell, living near Blackwater, Va. It being no less than a young pig that is part human. It has a human head, also jaws, nose, eyebrows and feet — there being no eyes at all, and no hair on the body. It is quite a curiosity. Dr. W. K. Wood has it preserved in alcohol.

    Lexington, Ky., Nov. 3. — William McAndrews of this city, came home from Winchester Monday night with a strange freak of nature in the shape of a pig with a human head. It has but one eye, that just above the nose. Otherwise the formation is perfect. The pig is but three days, old, and was one of a litter of eight born in a sty belonging to a colored man in Winchester.

    On yesterday a sow belonging to Mrs. Maria Bond, a colored woman, living in North Sedalia, gave birth to a litter of five pigs, four of whom were all right, while the fifth is an extraordinary freak of nature. The pig is entirely destitute of hair, its skin being soft and smooth as that of an infant. Instead of two eyes it has one abnormally large eye in the center of the forehead. The nose is shaped like that of the sheep with an overhanging upper lip. The most singular feature of the incipient porker, however, is a growth of tissue from the forehead just above the eye, projecting forward and downward, which is about two and one half inches in length and resembles and elephant’s proboscis. The animal certainly presents a wonderful aspect. It only lived about ten minutes after being born but the body will be preserved in alcohol as a curiosity.

    An rather interesting monstrosity has been reported from Kitzbichl [a town in the northeastern part of the Austrian state of Tyrol]. In that place a sow farrowed a pig with a chin like a human, a single large eye (in the middle of its forehead) and what appears to be a horn [frontal proboscis?], 1.5 inches long, projecting from the forehead above it. Unfortunately, it was born dead, but it has been preserved in spirits.

    The above Print is descriptive of a Female prodigy which has existence at the West End of Town, in the person of a Young Lady of the highest rank and expectations.
    Various are the reports which have gained circulation as to her Habits, Manners, Disposition, and Accomplishments, but all rest upon mere surmise, as she is never seen: she is perfect in her figure upwards to the head, which is that of a Pig. She feeds out of a Silver Trough, as represented in the above Print, is incapable of giving any other expression of her ideas than a grunt, and has not unfrequently been a source of terror to those who are employed about her person.
    Offers of marriage have been made to her, by interested fortune hunters, amongst whom she is, doubtless, an object of irresistible attraction in consequence of the dazzling splendor of her family connections. In all the higher circles she is the universal topic of conversation; and curiosity is hourly employed in speculating upon the possible circumstances of her future life, as it is so greatly to the interest of her family that she should not die without issue, lest the title which distinguishes it should be come extinct.

In a place in Holland, called Wirkham, being a neuter Towne; as lying betwixt Holland and those parts belonging to the Empire, on the River Rhine, lived one Joachim Skinker, whose wife’s name was Parnel, a man of good revenue, but of a great estate in money and cattle: these two having very lovingly lived together, without any issue to succeed them in their goods and inheritance: it being, no small griefe unto them, that either strangers, or some of their owne ungrateful Kindred should after death enjoy those meanes, for which they had so laboriously travail’d: when they were in their greatest despaire, it hapned thus, she found her selfe conceived with childe, which was a greater joy and comfort to her and her husband: But whether they were unthankful for such an unexpected blessing, or what other thing was the cause, I am not able to determine: but so it hapned, that in the yeere 1618, she was safely delivered of a Daughter, all the limbes and lineaments of her body, well featur’d and proportioned, only her face, which is the ornament and beauty of all the rest, had the Nose of a Hog, or Swine: which was not only a stain and blemish, but a deformed uglinesse, making all the rest lothsome, contemptible and odious to all that lookt upon her in her infancie.

If the joy of the parents was great in the hope of a Childe, how much greater may wee conjecture their sorrowes were, to be the parents of such a monster: but considering with themselves what Heavens would have, they had not power to hinder, and studying (as farre as in them lay) to conceale their shame, they so farre mediated with the Midwife and the other women that were present at the delivery, that they should keepe it as close and secret as it was possible to do: and they called the name of it Tannakin, which is as much in English as Anne, or Hannah.