Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-02-18
D1aaUsrING wEpDING IN LONDON.
MI rrinse II tho Axtec Children-Mntri.
IRONY a La Barnum-Dcscription Of tho,
Bride and Groom \

n on the London Telegraph, January 81
The pair Of Mexican cretins exhibited
in London. some years ago as brother
and sister, made their appearance yes
terday as nan and wife. The specula-
ton has certainly been we'll planned,
and if the forthcoming show of Two very
remarkable specimens of humanity be
not highly profitable to the proprietor
of the happy couple, IL will not be from
any parsimonous management OF the
matrimonial puff. 1t was in ls4s, we
believe, that an, American Snowman,
calling himself Raymond, introduced
these curious dwarfs to the public OF
New York. They were, if not sold,
conveyed In some way or other to a
.cleverer Snowman, who brought them to
England in 1852 or 1853, and who con-
trived to set our chronological and an
thropological societies cracking whole
bushels of chronological and anthropo-
logical nuts. The new owner OF the
dusky little strangers looked to right
and to left, especially to left, and found,
in good time, as assistant Snowman, o
clever literary cynic, who struck a bar
gain"smutnally advantageous" and got
up a very pretty little story about the
"Aztecs," as he determined to call
them. An eminent map-publisher was
applied to for information with regard
to any untrodden latitude and longitude
of Central America. He pointed out
the widest tract Of UNEMPLOYED country
on the Western continent, and was then
requestedito plan u mystical city in the
midst thereof. This he did, and the
city was called Iximaya.' All the
rest was tolerably plain sailing.
The announcement that these strange
little beings were to be Joined together
in holy matrimony must have burst
very discordantly on the ears of people
who remember their first appearance on
a long, baize-covered platform or table
in the large room at Hanover Square.
It is some satisfaction to know that Pro-
fessor Owen has given an opinion ad-
verse to the original hypothesis Of their
close consequently. Maxine Valdez
Nunez and his bride, Barlola Valesquez,
are very much alike-especially Maximo
but they ar, not the children OF n
father and one mother. AS II pair of
ponies may BE- exceedingly well matched
from two different paddocks, so ''this
man and this, woman" makes a remark
ably good pair of grotesque Indian
figures, molied in brown human clay.
The first story of their discovery, in
attitude of idols, squatted on the affairs
of Iximaya, aud'of the circumstances
tending to prove that they were brother
and sister, is now abandoned, with as
much reason US convenience.
Their wedding breakfast yesterday in
Willis rooms, followed n ceremony in
the registrars office, rs WI are inform
ed, and the senor and sonora took their
seats as bridegroom and bride. We
have intimated that no cost was spared
on this happy occasion. The repast was
at all points complete marriage feast
"regardless Of expense" There were
it is true less than half the number Of
guests for whom covers had been laid
but it is consolatory ~ add that the
company included as many ladies as
gentlemen.
All were seated and all rose when the
interesting couple entered the room,
arm in arm, and walked with a t~olerably
firm step Il the places reserved for them
at the top table. The bridegroom wore
evening dress, with u white waistcoat,
a red camelia in his buttonhoie, and
the strip of crimson ribbon which de-
notes a claim to some foreign order
never mind what: His very small head
looked smaller for the mass of frizzly
black hair which enyeloped it like a
cloud. He had a STOPPING, jerky gait,
and so had his bride, though not in so
noticeable a degree. She wore white
satin, cut low, and literally adorned
with %brilliants; q wreath of orange bios
SONS; and a lace veil, which caused her
a great deal Of trouble. Maxine and
Bartola have now, it may be presumed,
grown to their full stature, which is that
of childhood. They are still slim Of
figure, but not by any means so ex-
tremely attenqated as they were when
they first appeared in public. Indeed,
the lady's form presents the appearance
of mature womanhood. Her age is said
to be twenty-three and that of her hus-
band thirty. Their heads and faces diff
fer curiously from those of stunted per-
sons in common. The facial angle is
about equal to that ofa hawk. They
have a fair allowance Of cerebellum, but
as little cerebrium, as would hold the
smallest morsel of intelligent brain.
Hence the almost total want of memory,
the absence Of ideas, and the incapaci-
ty for applying, or ever learning to ar
words. The female is, in this
respect, rather superior to the male; as,
indeed, she is in physical development.
The joints of her fingers are d~actyllic,
though a little inclined two into one, as
would Of course. be the sign Of n low
organization; but this sign is absolute
in the little fingers Of the male, which
are simple spendees, or o%ne.jointed
members. ? 81. - 7i ..l'
It is an odd sort of thing to hear the
speeches at q wedding breakfast turn on
scientific questions suggested by the
deculiarities of the bride and
bridegroom; TO see a medical gentle
man rise to propose their healths, and
to hear him speak of "the not uninter-
esting couple" in learned terms, with
occasional references to "Humboldt, the
great cosmogonist." The physician
who spoke this funny compound of an
epithalamium and o lecture on the an
was Dr.. Brewer. He said
that the ladies and gentlemen who had
done the young people honor of accept
ing their invitation were more likely to
at a conclusion on the subject Of
marriage ''than the most learned col
lege of Swans who proceeded on dry
physiology only" He bore emphatic
testimony to the sffectionate treatment
which the young couple had received
from Mr.. Morris, their Snowman, who
had "as much love for them, as if they
were two feeble children of his own"
DR.. Brewer was quite frank in speaking
Of the bride and bridegroom rs ''chil-
but he explained that their af-
was the affection of devoted low
ers, and spoke Of the pain and separa-
lion. caused the gentleman, As for the