Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-06
vile, fell down stairs with j baby in her
arms recently. She saved the child, but
received injuries which resulted in Ler own
n arriaGe of Beauty No. II and ,Ee living
Skeleton.

n. Sun.
When Isaac ". Sprague, the living
skeleton of Bunpcli's museum, was told
that beauty No. Is lad taken the prize in
competition lately closed in New York.
he burst into tears. dashed lis hat upon
the floor. ratified his bones and declared
that the jud ges were not fit to decide 4
question of female beauty. He would
have made different decision, and have
awarded the first prize to No. II, Mss
Minnie Thompson. Miss Thompson was,
indeed, very progressing Young woman
aud With sensible appreciation OF her
own charms, SD. was piducd at not receiv
ing the 500, Or even the $50 that
was G iven to the beauty WHO carried Oil
the second prize. Bat tho skeleton
smiled upon her as soon as be had dried
his tears, and WAS cousoled Not that the
skeleton is the highest type OF manly
beauty. His arms are bones, hardly con-
ceaied by the skin that covers them, and
his legs seem almost too thin to carry even
his attenuated form. But his face has a
frank and independent expression. and
though upon q man of ordinary proper
tionS it might show a somewhat unbecom
ing prominence Of cheek and chin bones.
as compared with the outline of his fraiI
body, 1t appears to be positively fat. His
head is surmountel with a fine shock OF
brick -coiored hair, and gcatec ard mus
tache oi the same hue adorn his counte-
nance.
Miss Thompson WAS attracted 10 Iii III at
once. She said she did not like fat men,
and looked upon the Hon. William NJ
Evarts as the beau ideal of grace. At
least she SO considered him until she W uas
sought by the skeleton, who, to her think
ing, eclipsed the lawyer. Miss Thomp-
son is not herself a thin lady. She weighs
probably four times as much as the skele-
ton, but as he only turns the scale at
forty pounds, it will be seen that she is
not abnormally large. She may be called
plump, and she is very pretty. She is
perhaps 80 years of age-fivc years the
skeletons junior.
After the New Yor! exhibition was over
the skeleton and Miss Thompson met
often by appointment at the museum, and
the managers of the show complained that
he was feeding upon his affections ard
growing fat. This must have been q mis-
take, however, for his weight, rs he show
ed by getting on the scales, had not in
creased. Another and an older error, too.
was corrected. It had been currently re
ported among the curiosities Of the show
that the skeleton had neither heart, lungs
nor liver, anu that 4 steady eye could look
through him AMI see an object behind.
The existence Of respitory and digestive
organs may still be in doubt, but Miss
Thompson Indignantly repudia:cs the
ruInor that he has no heart.
The courtship was quite short. Miss
Thompson told her lover, in plain prose,
the history Of her simple life lie gave
her poem Of twenty four verses, fully
describing his own. This poem he is in
tho habit Of selling for five cents Il copy,
but he charged nothir. at all for her copy;
and she, overcome by this last proof of
her skeleton lovers devotion, promised to
skeleton was sent to the Brooklyn show.
He was in despair, but his true love com
fortcd him. ard an appointment was made
for last Saturday night. At 9 o'clock the
skeleton WAS at the New York museum,
where be met Miss Minnie Thomp
son ; at 10 o'clock they were in
jersey CITY, and at ii o'clock they
had been united in marriage by
the Rev. NJ. Gardner. They returned
10 Brooklyn, and Kept tho matter Sc
cr''t until yesterday morning, when the
skeleton announced it to Manager Bates.
Tie newly made Mrs. Spra que has consent
cd t" support Ecr husband OF the exhib
ition patf"!tn. She will appear il. Brook
lyn IA day sitti,i.. beside him, AID billed
"ILc Skeletons Wife,"
II lost the hundred ,iuliars,' said the
nc"!y married lady, ''Dnt | won Il hus-
bluG''