The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-02-25

W IdlS6 dlOGQ6E crop, III WHICH
event her value as a s'freak" would
be totally destroyed. Mr.. and Mrs.
Moffitt went to New York last
evening.
DINNER OF THE FREAKS.
After the ceremony Mr.. Geary,
"a freak" of fifty years standing, in
Vited twenty of his most intimate
acquaintance home to dine with
him. Mr.. Geary's present wife is
professionally known as mile
Cathlene, the skeleton woman.
When in showing condition she
weighs seventy pounds, and, as her
husband graphically expressed it,
"there isn't enough meat on her to
feed a Scotch terrier" Now, how
ever, Mile Cathlene is what Mr..
Geary is pleased to call as "fat as
butter" and weighs ninety pounds.
In response to question about the
matrimonial alliances of we'll
known "freaks" Mr.. Geary said:
"Well, the most of 'em marry oppo-
sites. l only know one case in
which fat man married
fat woman. There's Hannah
and John Buttersby. She's the
latest woman that ever showed
through this country; weighs some
thing like 900 pounds and keeps
gaining flesh right straight along.
John. her husband, used to do the
living skeleton business, but he got
so lean that he couldn't walk and
he had to give up travelling. They
live here in Frankfort. He runs a
blacksmith shop and peddles boss
medicine. He has to be trundled
around in a hand-cart. Well, II
guess he won't weigh more than
sixty pounds. You heard about
that skeleton, Sprague, who mar
RED a beauty out of Bunnell's
woman show, didn't you? Well
that man has got a 200 pound
wife and half dozen children down
in Massachusetts. By the way.
the Battersbys have mighty hand |
some daughter. Yes, young
woman. No, neither fat nor lean. |
There's a fat girl atBunnell's that is
to an animal-keeper.
John and Mary Powers travel as !
brother and sister, but they |
are man and wife. That's the only |
tat couple l know Of. Forepaugh |
had a fat man, who married an AL |
Oino, and John B. Doris engaged a
tat woman that Was married to a
canvas mn Fat Lottie Grant is
to lean ventriloquist.
ECCENTRICITIEs OF DWARFs.
Here Mr.. G cary paused to light
MS pipe. Then he resumed his in
JereStlng narrative; There's Col.
Goshen, the giant, you know; be cot
struck on little Daisy Henry, who
sn't much higher than his knee.
She's the freak that married Gen
9ral Whitman, a dwarf, who is ugly
to sour milk. The Chinese
giant once told me he had half a
1ozen wives at home, but l think he
was pulling my leg. That ugly lit
lie Chinese dwarf who was with the
0arnum show last season was on
jhe tlIrt all the time. He has q
wife and five children in
Hong Kong, but he is engaged
20 be married to as sleek a
ooking white woman as you ever
Jaw. He met her in Baltimore. and
The followed the show for a month.
v by you'd be astonished to know
he number of women that fall in
owe with freaks. The historian
aid this IN way calculated to con-
Fey the impression that innumerable
fair ones had smiled upon him dur
ng his long and eventful career.
fne sword swalloWer paused to
nake the point more effective. On
esuming he said: Half a dozen of
hem Cape Town niggerS that Firini
oOk to London and called ZuIus
re now married to English women. |
fanny Burdette, one oil the smallest 3
women in the country, is the wife
t big Bill Bristol, side-shJw :
lower. She is now in Boston. ZOf
curse you know Tom Thumb mar
led Minnie Warren. Major Little
niger and wife, both little folks /
rayeled with O'Brien's circus last
ear. Little Commodore Mutt is !
larried to a dwarf, but he thinks i
very big woman IN tbo rooJ - g