Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-12-02
NUMBER 4S.


terday, by invitation of Dave Long, the mana
ger, we visited the Washington Territory Fat
Girl who is to be exhibited at the Fair in Ore
gon, after which she will visit the various cities
in the United States. The fair and fat one was
born in Iowa in lS49, and came with her par
euts to Washington Territory in 1853, and since
then has resided near Vancouver, where she has
grown to her present vast proportions. The
young lady is five feet eight inches high, and
weighs four hundred and nineteen ,ounds. She
enjoys excellent health, is as active as the gen.
eral average of girls of her age, and endowed
with strength in proportion to her weight and
size. She declares that she has frequently lifted
500 pounds and can throw 100 pounds on her
shoulders without the least Inconvenience. She
has good, although not inordnate appetite;
sleeps WE'LL and altogether, is I" hale fellow"
She states that her mother is a slender woman,
weighing about 40 pounds, while her father
never weighed to exceed 1875 pounds. Until
seven years of age she was slender at that time
she had an attack of lung fever, and upon her
recovery commenced to gain flesh and has con-
tnued to do SO ever si.ce. Her muscles are
often danced all night without being tired. If
all flesh is grass, this girl is a load of hay. AS
she is her appearance in the Fiji Islands during
II scarcity of provisions would be made the oc-
casion of great rejoicing 10y the anlhropophangi
The man who falls in love with her will get
nice lttle comforter, but can never hope TO cut
much ofn figure in the family She would be a
. { 81 .,La g. "A a all
wager that she would create IA sensation if she
should appear among the bathers m Long Branch
in bathing costume. .- Portland Buiietn.
Mormon DISTRIBUTION or WvEs.- A character
istc anecdote, one which have often heard re-
lated toy Mormons themselves, will clearly illus
trate this principle in the authoritative dstrbu-
ton of wives. Among the applicants to Brigham
for this especial privilege of modern saintshp
there came, one day, "a brother Of an unusually
doubtful character, when something like the fol-
lowing dialogue ensued;
$50, you want another wife, do you ?"
eyes if you please, Brother Brigham"
Well the short of the matter is that you
can't have one"
Why can't have one, as well as the other
sants?"
$50, you want to know the whole story, do
you ?"
Yes | should like to know why can't have
more than one wife, as well as the rest OF 'em"
Well, you shall know, then, in short order
tcant your race to die OUT"
| will not stop to discuss the question how far
the principle is probably carried out in the act
ual administration of affairs in certain cases not
SO easily disposed of as was the above, nor how
far the temptation to appropriate to thepselyeS
the choicest ewe-hmbs of the flock is likely to
be resisted by those whose power in such cases
is mainly limited by their will. | strongly sus-
pect, however, from certain hints aud glimpsss
Of facts-H ich-huVe come under my notice, that
special instances might be brought forward of
rather u damaging character as to the perfect
mmaculateness of this kind Of administration.
At the same time, it may, perhaps, be freely ad-
mtled, that, as a general thing, the principle
protessed is honestly carried out, or, at least,
that 1t is lived up to about as closely as princi-
pies generally are, by persons not especially re-
markable for conscientious scruples.- Overland
MonHH.