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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 11, 15 December 1877, Page 3

A letter from Warren County, Kentucky, to the Franklin " Patriot " says: " This child, a girl, was 4 years of age on the 2<)th day of last March. She weighs 100 pounds, measures eighteen inches across the chest, and is four feet eight and one-half inches high. There is a thick growth of hair covering her entire body, while her face is covered with whiskers, including a mustache. Up to about eighteen months ago she was a healthy girl. At about that time her body became very hot, and wns covered with a heavy perspiration, lasting for several days. The odor occasioned by the perspiration was very offensive, and within fifteen minutes after being cleanly dressed her body, and clothes would become saturated as if by some blackcolored liquid. When the pempiration ceased tho hair began growing, only leaving the soles of her feet and the palms of her hands bare. Her voice attained a remarkable depth, sounding as though it came from the inside of a barrel, Her strength is astonishing. She can carry her 10-year old sister under her arm with apparent ease, and her mother states that the child actually does not know her own strength. Tho statements herein made aiv strictly true, and, if necessary, the testimony of the child's parents and many people living in tho neighborhood can be produced for corroboration."