The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-11-29
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nearly 400 eherubs Of all conditions 10
life were on exhibition.
Among the euriositiea now temporarily
residing In Gotham, whose appearances
At the exhibition Il q certainty, Ne mote
the following; There IL one queer looking
child, with 4 long Jaw and yery large
ears, who Hbarks like dog.p Il might
seem sufficient 10 say that Il barks. but
a. many Of our readers are familiar
With the sea lions bark, and also that Of
the hyena, We mark the distinction, II
i understood that the child barks when
l. Is hungry-that calls tie mother. Il
also barks when Il IL salisied.-that re.
lieves it, mother.
As q physical curiosity, trayersing In
IL little pilgrimage the ordinary course
OF nature, apretty child OF Danish par
ents will 10 regarded with interest Most
children make their initial vail 10 life
With full complement Of hair, toe nails
and finger nais. There are now and
then bAid.headed babies, but such com.
Pliments to their fathers are exceptional.
This little fellow hadn't q single hair
perhaps We should say Il solitary hair
not nail to defend himself with. He is
now thirteen months oil sge, and very
solemn person be appears TO be.
A sad exhibit Ia the little one who
most resembles monkey" Fortunate.
y, his father does not attend the show,
but his devoted mother Ia ~ proud oi
her sons DArwiniAn peculiarity s.ifhe
resembled Napoleon the Great. II Il IN.
dersLood that this baby boy indicates his
familiarity with the apian way by con.
tinuAlly scratching his cocoGnui. lie
will probably have the medal, "A all
monkeys are meddlesoms.
One Of the curious freaks Of nature il
The jIW.tooth baby, the most extraordi.
nary specimens within radius Of %
miles Of the City Hall. Jaw teeth at four
months, and very intelligent. This ex-
traordinary child would open its small
mouth IS times u minute with truly ac-
coumodating spirit and biting visitors
lOrefngers with an easy grace that won
Tor II the respect Of all who beheld.
Closely following the back.toothed in.
liant came baby who can cluck like 4
setting hen, aud = bAId.headed baby who
knows the alphabet.
Mr.. BaFnum found that ieCundlty WA
the big thing in his collection. Great
crowds continually gathered about the
twin, policemen were called to protect
the triPlets, and q sPeciaEplaform was
assigned the quRrtets. It will please our
lady readers 10 know that there are more
triplets than ever before shown, and \
bqRa ide set Of quartets sre hoped for,
bur not yet seen. In the olden time vis-
itors looked At the triplets with interest,
At the mother with curiosity and 1t the
father with awe. Thus far only one trip
let pa has come forth like a man and
promised TO form one OF the family group.
Others may be tempted by the prizes.
Naturally there are more twins than trip
lets, and it is pleasant to record their
evolutionary worth. OIe set hSA at
tanned an adiposean point OF marvellous
degree. They are too fat, one would
think, to breathe. Perhaps their efforts
in that line would be called snorting by
the unieeling. Why Ia that these babies.
like detormed people, invariably attract
sympathetic attention! There Is twin
Get so thin that they wear padding over,
or rather under their bones. They look
puny. II the two we're rolled into one be
would not equal an average child OF fee.
Bile constitution. II those twins have
prize it ought to be in the shape Of oat-
meal shifting.
Nothiugl is more contagious than
laugh.
Charley Backus, the colored mans
friend, used to sing a laughing song which
had laughing chorus. He laughed, the
quartette laughed, the audience laughed,
and before he finished one huge, vast
laugh filed all the hall. Apropos Of this
there is laughing baby whose mother
rarely smiles. The father smiles when.
ever he Is asked. The baby laughs reg.
ular ha, ha, and seems to like it. He used
to wake his nurse by mild and iniantile
guffaw, but she being q susceptible young
person, laughed SO much that she njnred
her health, and was compelled to GEEK
another situation.
In one of the most beautiful wales in
Greenwood Cemetery, on the top Of an
old gentleman's tombstone, squats-ro
other word will answer, for it neither
stands, sits or kneels-a mammoth mar.
bic child, with such huge head, such =
fat figure, and such stupendous limbs as
to attract and rivet universal attention.
On the block is engraved these strange
lines:
In the dark tomb to which We hvte,
Tiers are no Aeti Of pardon Eassei;
Bat sadness. gloom and deep despair
Reisnin eternal tleuee there.
Just such 4 mammoth, monumental
and extraordinary child as this in size
and general tOu! ensemble" will be carried
to the exhibition Aoor to-day. No such
gloomy lines as those above will adorn
his massive chair, but his face is as fat
sud as expressionlesS az that Of the stony
cherub described. That the great fat boy
will challenge the admiration OF all via.
itors is uRquestionable, and his parents
should hire 3 policeman TO guard his
hack hair, which is golden.hued, and
hangs in gorgeous curls.
The entries number nearly four han-
dred.