, 1876-09-29
A Tall Story.


There is on exhibition IN a s,ara ID
State street, in this city. IErhats ffH
most remarkable couple IN the uorIl
a man and woman Who are riaufs n
stature. They are Mr.. and Mr.. M
Bates. whose home Is nov IN SeyllI.
Medina county, Ohio. They are toth
seven feet, eleven and half inche. m
height, the husband weighing g.
pounds, while the wife weighs az
pounds. The common-sized visitor.
when placed between them. feels verv
much as Gulliver must have felt uheu
he fell among giants. Mr.. or Captain
Bates, as he is called. is n quite finely
Proportioned man, Of ruddy, healthy
looking complexion, straight AMI mill
tary-looking in his regimantals. HIS
immense stature is not so noticeable A.
that of his wife, who seems almost
awkward, somehow, on account of her
length, she being actually taller for a
woman than he is for q man. They are
evidently people who, il not 30 wonder
fully tall, would be considered common
place. They are intelligent, however.
and the lady especially feels the aUk-
wardnsss of her position as the object
of the curiosity and open-mouth won
der of the multitude. In an interest
ing conversation with our reporter she
showed openly her dislike Of the life
she is leading, and her longing to re-
turn to their home in Ohio. Their home,
by the way, was one built and furnished
especially for them. The ceilings are
twelve and q half feet high, and no
doorway is less than eight and half
feet high. of course they find the
hotel accommodations unsuitable to
them wherever they go, as the doors are
so low and the beds so short. One of
the strangest facts about their history
is that they were the children of com
mon people. Mrs. Bates father was
only five feet four inches in hight,
while her mother was only a common
sized woman. Her brothers and sisters
are of no remarkable hight. Captain
Bates father was six feet two inches in
hight-a tall man, but a dwarf COM
pared with his son. Bates is now %
years of age. He is native of Letcher
county, Kentucky. His wife is Nova
Scotian, q years of age. They were
married in London, England, while
travelling on exhibition.-RochesterD Dem.
CONTENTS OF LADY's PocKEr.-
They came walking down the center
passage of the main building at the
Centennial to-day-two beautiful young
ladies, over whose heads probably nine
teen or twenty summers had passed.
They chatted pleasantly as they passed
along, and turned into one of the less
frequented passages and sat down on q
bench to rest, when one remarked to
the other: Minnie, where is -
stopping?" She said she had forgotten
but would look, as she had the address
on a slip of paper in her pocket. When
the search commenced for that slip of
paper, as it was somewhere in the big
pocket attached to her dress, out came
a small lace handkerchief, then q large
linen one, a broken bracelet, spool Of
thread, pocket-book, two false teeth (her
mothers, probably, which she was tax
ing to the dentists to get fxed) piece
of white flannel, small box of face DOW
der, two crooked hairpins which looked
as though they had done service as but
ton-hooks, a thimble, one garter about
10 inches in length, q paper of pins,
fan, broken comb, ivory end of parasol,
knife, bottle of smelling salts, two pie
ces Of ribbon, three No. 2 soiled gloves,
different colors, paper of bonbons, cigar
holder, two buttons, and at last the slip
of paper she had been looking for. We
didn't see anything more taken out of
that pocket, 30 can't say whether it was
empty or not; but we began to think it
was like maRician's magic bag. After
looking over the above inventory, who
will ever dare again abuse a small boy
about the contents of his pocket
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