The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-03-24

W! ZIG VI enormous Size jumped up and
bit her. When her boy Sam was born,
ne had stamped upon his entire body the
form of a turtle. He almost beats nav
tat man, David Navarro, who is genu-
Inc monstrosity. Dave was born in Hi
nols, and now weighs $50 pounds. What
do you say to an eighteen-year-old boy
with thigh SO inches round and waist
band and chest 8 feet 9 inches9 If that
amt monstrosity in your estimation,
compare him with little Lucia Zarate.
the Mexican dwarf, who is Is wears old,
IS 20 inches high, and weigh 4 il pounds.
After all suppose neither dwarts nor
grants like our Goshen, nor fat boys, are
Wnat you newspaper men mean by mon
stroslties.''
~ suppose we mean something more
OF the Siamese-Twin order"
Exactly. The St. Benoit twins. for
instance. By the by, they died last Au
gust. The papers never noticed their
death. They caught cold through travel
ing in one Of Barnums tents. They were
hardly year old and the cold killed
them. Then there's the Two-Headed
Nightingale, Miss Mile Christine, two
women of color joined together by one
spinal column. These girls have got but
one nervous system, although each has a
separate individual consciousness. hope
soon to get hold of the Yaphank q. i.)
monster. He is now at the Poor-house
there, and has boots like an OK. In adj
dition to that he has three fingers only
on each hand, for all the world like tai
Ons." ..s.
Determined to obtain still further In
formation, the reporter next paid visit
to DIR. William A. Hammond, Professor
in the University of New York. Upon
stating the object of his visit, the Profess
sor slgnlfied his acquiescence to the desire
of the Star man.
III believe that all cases of monstrosity
are due to defective development. Most
are owing to the fact OF nature not hav-
ing proceeded to It's final fruition. All
cases of twins joined together are by the
fusion of two germs. The larger number
of so called museum monstrosities are
manufactured, iand where not, they are
simply arrested developments. I have
been deeply interested lately, in the now
so we'll known cases of Johnny, Joe and
James, three abnormal Developments,
who are not in the technical sense mon
sters, but who are examples of arrested
development, which is the basis of all
freaks of nature. The three are children
OF the same parents. James is ten wears
of ase and 81 1-2 inches high; Johnny is
eighteen and 80 ID inches in height; Joe
is fifteen, and 81 IA inches in stature.
! They are imbeciles and dwarts. The
face is in each larger proportionately to
the part of the Uranium containing the
brain. The heads are above the average
all have the peculiar Mongolian-like type.
The eyes are small and set angularly in
their sockets. The cheek bones are high,
and even the complexion is similar to
that of the Tartar type
"Do you recognize any authentic in
stances of monstrosity IN either modern
or ancient timesa"
"Few are authenticated. The satyr,
with his animal lower parts and hoofed
feet, is a myth. Of course there are gen
uine cases, such as Mr.. Kavanagh, the
Irish Member of Parliament, without legs
and arms. There is an extremely rare
book, of which two copies only are known
to be in America. 1t is entitled 'Prodigi
Orom &C Ocentorum Chronicon,' and was
printed at Basic, in 1868. The author is
Conradus Lycosthenes, and his work is a
large quarto volume filled with accounts
of prodigies and monsters. For instance
Plato's 'Cipodes' and 'Monomeri,' races
OF men with only one enormous foot, so
large as to be able to shade themselves
with it from the sun or use it as an UNI
brella. Then he narrates and gives &C.
counts of merm aids, harpies which were
filthy birds with human faces, bearded
women and medieval conjolned twins.
Why, he has an illustration in the book
OF q, tree in the Hebrides from which
ducks are produced ,and another Of a rab-
bit with two bodies and eight legs, four
(Which are located on the back.'
'These can be hardly authenticateds'
II should think not,'' said DR.. Ham
mond.