New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-07
TWENTY YEARS A SNOWMAN
Nc1nTYTs OF LIFE IN MUSEUMS.

that's no short while SAID Professor Hutchlngs
at Bunnells Museum in Broadway, pacing mp ana
down the door like a Gagged tiger lie is short why
man. with long blacl, hair, bristing musJache'
eyes keen aud black like a snake charmers ana a
stentOTian voice.
On being asked If he would furnish few paIilcn-
| lars OF museum life he said Yes" As for himself
he described the natral phenomena. Else how
| would the gaping crowd know what IL was LOOKING
att HIS magnetism. by which he held that cio"u
waiting for every word, he got from distinguished
source being a direct descendant from Co''on
! Mather by his mothers side. Why not Tears Vi
| practice alone would rot give 1t.
| Whom | Leran i'm the show line" continued the
Professor. the What Is 1t was drawing great
crowds at Barnum's old place in Broadway. mere
was millions in it. The man who ectuIed on IL zen
/ into consumption poor fellow-and his voice ne
| came so weak that had to quiet the people before
he could be heard. Finally he died, and it fell to
! nv lot to take his place. Many and many time
did | tell the old story over and over as to there
being pair of the creatures at tirst-caught III an
Afrran Jungle, leaping from bOugh to bough Ike
wild animals as they were living on fruits anu
nuts, and some said even snakes and tOads-ohe
! diving on the way across the ocean leaving only
| the one YOU see before YOU ladies and gentlemen
positively the only one III the world known to civil
| lied man-think of IL!
1--WE had the Lucasse family then, all OF en-
! Albinos. They were positively beautiful" Inc boy
was lad only seven years old them and has grown
| TO be a stout man. One day countryman with
| wisp OF hay on his horn-as Horace would say
wanted TO know. Where are them Ml-hudUsF
All binders said /. 'Yaas, said he. Presently
the Albino family came marching in the father IN
the lead with newspaper against his nose trying to
read Alblnos are very near sighted, yOu know ana
| his wife following also trying TO make out some
! thing in print. There are them All-blinders
! shouted the man; I'll SNOW, they can't see
nothink"
Some evil-mindrd persons say that Colonel
Goshen is coward continued the professor. mol
| ding his head toward a giant who sitting in
huge chair. wearing a great blue coat and VolnmI-
nous red trousers with plume waving from his
towering helmet But | tell you he has the
| strength of Goliath-such a. never saw even in
! Il circus arena One day n man treated him
| disrespectfllly Gt was about twenty years ago.,
and. beiu afraid something might happen, he
started to run away Misguided creature lie hal
not thought he was talking to a mountain OF
energy, inactive like a sleeping volcano yet never
heless a mountain. What did that giar do but get
mad Sprnging from his big chair he took two
strides across the loor-the man in the sevcn-eague
boots never got over ground iaSter-and taking the
man. who weighed ut least 200 pounds by the coat
| collar he whrled him over his head like he would
feather. and tossed him over the banstcrs to The
| floor below. from which unpleasant situation he
picked himself up and limped OUT
"WelI | felt like doing it," said the giant, who
happened TO ovcrhear this part of the conversation,
smiling blaudly and running his hig clumsy fingers
through the shining locks of little girl sitting on
one of his pnnderOus knees got madden and
madder-the nsolcnt fellow could have crushed
every bone in his body"
"There was Spracuc, too, who was an interest
ing creature resumed the Snowman. The skin
was fairly drawn over his bones. He was a mere
shadow. You almost looked TO see him float out
through the window and 90 sailing over the honso-
top after the manner of the old woman Dcstrdc a
hroomstck. II one had good eyes he could see
through him. What a voice he hal though! Ii
was one of those 'way-down-in- thc-cellar voices,
which make YOU look around to see where
they come FROM Well, clcrical-looking man,
wearing a benevolent smile and white
cravat stllkcd in one day, with travel
ing bag in enc hand aud his wife on his dscncagcd
arm. The poor skeleton excited his sympathy, and,
going up 20 him. he whispered: My dear friend,
how do you feel to-dayP That man Sprague was
wag if he was anything. Pm pretty well; how are
YOU he replied in voice that seemed to Use ont
cf the earth Dropping his travelling bag and
wife, the parson ran out Of the door and down the
street without once looking behind"
| An OLD STORY RETOLD.
| July 4. 1860 was day at Barnum's never to
be forgotten. Crowdsi Humph. The buildine
was packed like sardincs in "A box, and there were
| huudrcds-thousands-in the street clamoring 10
| get in There they were ell lowing each other the
| money a shining in their hands took the great
Snowman to one side and said Look ut that"
I'm fix it ne said, and he made an effort TO get
some of those who had been in the building Tor
hours to go out. The first person to whom he sug-
gesed the proprety OF making room for Others was
| n big lrishwOmap OF tre-mcnd-l.ous bItadIh
! and flaming complexion. But she wouldn't STIR
| an inch 'lndade | won't CO. said she; I've cum
to shtay the day ont, an Pave me dnnur in me bag
| ere Then the Snowman got another lnca, an
! what he did is matter of common fame. When he
cot the word Egress mp over the back door in big
black letters "a rOugh-shod Jcrseyman stared al II
in blank amazemcnt. LOOK zee here, SAL SAID he
to his sweet heart. haint seen that ere crltter
| vet come along an let's take i'm in Away they
people went through that door was astonshlng--as-
ton-ish ing. sirsome OF 'em coming III at one door
| an going straight out at the other.
FAT WOMEN, DwARFs AND GIANTS.
"Tat women are stock attractions. The first one
to appear on the platform in this country was
Hannah Battcrsby, who married a living skeleton
| too weak to walk whom she carried around on her
broad back quite proud. They are very incident
all of em; sleepy eternally drinking water, small
| brained-the animal, yOu see, cncrOaching upon
and overcoming the intellectual as they grow fatter
and fatter Plenty of little people, Lots Of
dwarfs, but midgets scarce. There's Tom
| Thumb who has been doing how Napoleon looked
at Lodi, so striking attitude and how he slept
| the night before the battle OF Waterloo, 50. Com
| modOre Mutt was a little devIl. Bright, the way
little people CO. but headstrOng and iu Of mischief
| sticking pins into peoples legs, and like amusc-
| ments. You couldn't argue with i'm, These small
folks as a Iule are i'll tempered, cranky aud proud
| as Lucfer strutting about like lords OF creation.
Giants are nowhere.
Nov in big men you get men of character. Bless
| Won I've seen 'cm all. There's Noah Arr, the Ohio
| giant Martin Van Buren, Bates who married Annie
| Swan the giantess, the big pair living now on a
| form ncar Cleyeland. Ohio. I'm house bgger than