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ed with a charcoal skin, and her face was charcoal. Recently, the Doctor and his patient visited the Metropolis, with a view to her introduction to an "astounded and delighted" public for a reasonable compensation per head. First she was introduced to a broker of speculative turn of mind, and afterward "to the faculty," who instituted a scientific examination of the wonderful woman. The result of the examination was the discovery that Miss Perry's charcoal skin was manufactured at New York Mills, covered with charcoal dust, and gummed tightly over the natural epidermis; in fact, the maiden was peeled, and stood before the grave physicians with no peculiarities to distinguish her from the rest of womankind. The history concludes with this paragraph: There has never been so great an imposition attempted in this city; and the only mistake of Dr. Perkins was in calling in the New York faculty, and not applying directly to Barnum. Mrs. Cunningham's "bogus baby performance was