The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-02
A MONsTRosITY.
A Donkey's Head Grows on a
Young Mans Body.

!, Young Mans Body.
I Cincinnati Enquirer: At No. rs
Freeman avenue, a couple of door
3 above Bank street, there reside a
I aged and respectable German an
| his wife, who make living b
D keeping a family grocery and pro
| vision store. The husbands nam
is Philip Volz. Mr.. Volz is a large
, tieshy, good-natured, honest, TEN
. perate German, who is content t,
mind his own business and deal gu
to his customers all the commodi
ties usually found in grocery anC
meat store, save cigars, tobacco anC
liquor. HIS wife is kind, pleas
ant old lady-probably sixty-ane
the people in the neighborhooC
call her grandmother" She is
very neat and clean in her appear
ance, and is one of, those sensible
bodies that people like to talk TO
either on business or merely foI
! pleasure. This good couple are the
parents of one of the most wonder
! full specimens of humanity that the
world ever saw, and certainly the
| most wonderful that was ever known
10 exist in Cincinnati. 1t is man
having the head of a donkey on its
shoulders. fa
1t most always happened that
InonstrosIties born o: either women
or animals have died shortly after
birth, if born alive at all, but this
is an exception to the rule, for the
subject of this article is alive now,
and is thirty years old. An En-
quirer reporter visited the grocery
store in question, and had a lengthy
interview with Mr.. and Mrs. Volz.
fhe rep, rter also saw the unfor-
tunate being who was the cause Of
the visit. Before attempting a de
scriptiOn Of George Volz, for this
is the name of the human mule, it
is but fair that something should
be said relative to its lite and the
manner in which it is taken care
of. Both dir. and Mrs. Volz said
TO the reporter, previous to admit
ting him to Georges room, that
many unkind rumors had gained
circulation relative to their treat
ment Of their crippled son. They
asserted that people reported that
George was kept locked up and was
never allowed TO see or be seen by
any one, except his keeper. THIS
they emphatically denied. When
George was young he was allowed
10 crawl out into the bar room when
he felt so disposed, and during the
day he was permitted to remain all
day in the dining-room if he felt
so inclined. There he could be
seen by any body and every body
that came TO the house, which was
a public one. His appearance was
such, of course, as 10 attract atten
ton and cause remarks to be made.
The poor fellow, after he got older,
was kept In comfortable room in
the rear of the place of business,
especially since they embarked IN
the grocery business, for the reason
that he was not fit object tor
women to look upon.
The parents declared that they
took the best possible care OF their
son and did not keep him locked up
even when he was ia his room. He
is the only child they have at home
now, the others being married or
dead, and they provided nurse for
him who was in constant attend
ance George has no desire to 60
out, and cares nothing about being
left alone. When the reporter was
ushered into the presence OF the
man George he could not repress
feeling of extreme horror at the
sight. The scrIbe's flesh began to
creep, and his hair almost lifted it.
self on end. Had he been alone his
courage would not have allowed
him to remain in the room second.
But, being accompanied by MIR. and
Mrs. Volz. the reporter used his
every endeavor To overcome the
feeling of indescribable terror that
came over him upon beholding such
a frightful spectacle. For a few
seconds the reporter could not hear
what was being said, or recognize
what was be ng done so terribly
astounded was he, and he could do
nothing but gaze with a wild fasci-
q ration at the object before him.
Gradually he mastered his grew
someness and tried to talk. In the
hope of shaking off the entirety of
his fright t
George VoIz sat in large arm
chair near bed under mantel.
By his side was comfortable
stove. The eyes of the cripple
stared at the reporter in an un
pleasant way, and George began to
kick violently as though he we're
trying to get at the stranger. the
while his hands, or what correspond
TO a human beings hands, pounded
each other with frightful rapidity
and apparent vIciousness. The re
porter finally became sufficiently at
ease to make a close observation,
and be saw that the face OF the
cripple was as near the shape OF
donkey as could be, the only feature
that at all approached tho shape OF
the genus homo being the nose. This
was nouced to be more prominent
than that Of a genuine specimen of
the donkey, but the outline was ex-
actly the same The mouth could
not be told from a donkey's, and
when it came to observing the up