The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-12

thirty three round the waist, he was q queer
Fellow in other ways, for he had six toes on
each loot, ard six fingers on one hsud. In
1874 died an Irish gentleman, Mr.. LlvclaCr
Love, from yerr iatness. SO immense was his
! bulk, thH bis coffin was said TO have measured
seven feet In length, four I'm BREADTH aud three and
hhlt in depth (though we doubt these hxuresl:
Low mauy pounds OF flesh he could have
furnished 70 "SbylOck' suotu8uat.d Mr. Baker.
VINO died at Worcester Zoo 1866 wa. so large A
man that 90 the language of the local prints "hi,
coffin measured seven feet over, and was htger
than an OF mary bCarse, and burf of the wall WAS
obliged To be taken down 90 admit It's passage"
oiN tcIrs afterwards there died at Usk, In Mon.
montushire, one Mr. Philip Mason, whose dmsu-
sion, wer' recorded as follows Round the wrist
eleven inches; ruuuu the upper arm, twenty me
ncn.si round he chest, sixty inches; round the
largest part o. the body, srvcnty-twO inches;
round tua thigh, thrty-sevcu inches; rOuuI tao
cali the leg, twenty five inches. Ia tho Die.
uOIuure des Sciences Mcdiclles," ." an account is
given OF O French woman, Marie Frincoisg Clay,
VINO attained an enormous bulk before her dgath,
In 1906. Married NO the age OF twenty-five, she
bad SIX children, and became fltter ami fttrer
every year she lived, though plunged ia deep
poverty. 10 was not good living that made her
far. She measured slNty-wo inches rOuni the
body, neck she had none, for her small head
sunk down between Two enormous shoulders
A. night he had to sleep nearly upright, 20 avoid
sui1raNon. Her day WAS spent at "A church porch
IN Paris, where she sat 10 eN cite pity, and draw
lorih charity by her tatncs, and rags.
The above Instances are wanting In flcili-
ties for comparison, on account OF the actual
weights being, in most cases, unrecOrdgd. We
viii, Therefore, dive into old newspaper, aud
registers Tor instances more specifically dCGlite
on this point. "Died lately" $50 said a uuws-
paper O century old this year, " Mrs. Harris,
opposite Sr. Aune'- Church, Sohl wgivhlug
three hundred ana twenty pounds" Poor
Mrs. Harris her weight was little more
than double nat eleven stoncs) which we
tnd to he the average of middle-aged full
grown men. There was q Keuti,h farmer
ana inukoeper, one Mr.. Palmer, who attracted
much attention, in the early part of the present
century, by his enormous bulk. He weighed
three hundred aud fifty pounds twenty-five
ttones), thereby beating Mrs. II irris by several
chalk. Five ordinary men could be buttOned
~ one time within his waistcuat. lie came to
London to see the famous Daniel Lambert. Lam
bert was vastly the superior of Palmer in bulk;
but the later putled so much through his fatness
that Lambert pited nim as a man to whom lie
must have been burden. Palmer went home
much mortified bis claim to nOtOrety was sud-
denly eclipse1 by a rival and his yeXati1n fastened
his death. \ part Of his inn the Golden Lion had
TO be taken down TO allow room for his collin TO be
removed and as there was no hearse large enough
or strOng enough TO carry IL, the coffin was con-
veyCd TO the grave in a timber Wagon. Rylaud
the Cngravcr who ended his days in shame
ful way towards the close of the last
century, had an apprentice named John Love.
Love left London after his masters death and
settled at bis native place in DOrsetshjre. lie
was SO exceedingly thin and meagre that a
physician advised him TO eat literally. The
ADVICE was so well taken that Love became a
gormandi'er; the food turned TO fat instead of
TO muscle and snew and his fatness killed him
at the age of forty, when he weighed three hun
dred and siXty-four pounds (abOut twenty.six
stones. Growing bulkier and bulkier in our
examples, the next on our brief list is Mrs.
Dorothy Collier who died about a century ago
and who was Gas the local prints ASSERT Sup
posed TO be the largest woman in the north Of
England" 1t is TO be hoped 50, seeing that Mrs.
Collier weighed four hundred and twenty pounds
(thTly stones, or seven stones heavier than Mrs
Harris). Her coffin was forty inches wide, and
thirty deep. This worthy lady was, however,
beaten by Frederica Ahrens, a young German
women, who was living at Paris in 1919. She
weighed thirteen pounds when born, tOrty-twO at
six months old, a hundred and fifty at four years,
and by the age Of twenty had attained a weight
of four hundred and fifty pounds (thrty-twO
stones). She measured siXty-fye inches round
the body, and eighteen inches round the arm.
Altogether, Frederica must have been q fOrmila-
bic young person to deal with, for she could lift
two hundred and fifty pounds weight with each
hand. Mr. Benjamin Bower, native Of Holt,
in Dorsetshire, attained weight Of four hun
dTed and seventy pounds (nearly thirty four
sOnes) at the time of his death, in 1868 lie
was active enough to travel from Holt 10
London by stage-Coach few days before he
died. As in the cases Of Mr. Baker and Mr..
Palmer, part of the house had to be removed
to afford egress for the coffin containing the
massive remains of Mr. Bower. GUM, the
German writer, mentions the case of young
woman who weighed four hundred and niuety-
two pounds Chirty.tiye stones) but of this
prodigy OF WOmanhOOd we have no further in-
formation. In IVA, there died at C)wthOrpa, in
Lincolnshire, one Mr.. Pell, who weighed i've
hundred and sixty pounds about forty stoues).
whether he had expressed any wish % have his
mightiness particularly taken care of does not
appear but he was enclosed IN three cotfins, the
united weight of which, with himself, exceeded
three thousand pounds (nearly ton and a half.
Mr. Bright, OF Essex, was person of great
in bn VIy nff fla Of n
the Third He was grocer at Maiden, and
belonged to a family noted for their personal
bulkiness. He was jolly follow, who did not
allow either tatness or anything else to in
terfere with his good humor; aud his bio
grapher gives him the character of being ga
cheerful companion, kind husband, a tender
father good master, friendly neighbor,
and an honest man :" insomuCh that fat people
would be glad 10 accept him as their repre-
sentative man. Nevertheless, he had sen
slble and reasonable tOreboding that the later
years of man OF his enormous bulk, if his life
were prolonged would bring more pain than
pleasure with them; and few days before his
death, at the early gge OF thirty, he EXPIRE scd q
willingness TO die. His weight six hundred
and sixteen pounds (forty-four stones). Seven
men were, on one particular occasion, buttOned
up within his waistcoat. When his career was
ended, and his body was encaSed in its monster
coffin, not only walls, but staircases, had 20 be
cut through before 1t could be got OUT twelve men
drew the low carriage on which the coffin was
placed and "an engine was fixed up on the
church,, as the local ChTOniclers narrste TO lower
the coffin into the grave. There was an Irish
man, Roger Byrne, who died in 1904, whose
bulk was so great that his admirers claimed for
him the merit Of being "seyeral stones heavier
than the celebrated Mr.. Bright OF Essex" IL
required thirty men to carry to the grave the bier
on which his body was laid. Mr.. Spooner a
TunwoTth man, who was living in l775, attained
q weight OF nearly forty stones (six hun
dred and eighty pounds). He had long been too
heavy TO walk, his legs being unable to bear
him. He measured four feet three inches across
the shoulders. II is recorded of him that "his
fatness once saved his life; for being at Ather-
stone market, and some difference arising between