Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-02-17
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Marriage Of the Bearded Woman to
the Tattooed Man.
The Attendants Represent all the Hu.
man C,riosities Of the World.


fort yesterday and large number OF
noted freaks" witnessed the ceTeiDo-
ny. The bride has a glossy black
beard three inches long. aud the groom
~ M handsome piece Of Mosaic worl;
- there ~ In America. Miss Leo Is
twenty-six years old aud her husband
has passed forty. His first wife was
the Russian gianteSs," 800 pound
Venus who died Of dyspepsia In Pitts
burg IN 1880. Before the season
ended Mofiitt married Circas-
sian beauty Of HiIesian extrac-
ton. She died last summer, and before
the BarDum show concluded it's season
the tattooed widower was head over
heels in love with the fascinating
Spanish bearded LADY, Although
bearded. she possessed all the coyness
Of her sex, and Mr.. Moiiitt was com
PEELED to use all the eioquence which
once made him famous AZ sidc-show
blower 10 persuade her t0 accept
him. "Oldr John Geary. the most
skillfui sword swalIower in the cOun-
try, Is the step-father Of Miss Leo, and
gave her away. Miss Leo wanted TO
have her beard shaved Off in honor Of
the OCCASION but Mr. Mofiitt, who Is
of practical turn Of mind. opposed IL
ON the ground that she might not be
able 10 raise another crop, in which
event her value as freak would
be totally destroyed. Mr.. and Mrs.
Mofiltt went 70 New York last even
ing.
After the ceremony Mr.. Geary, "a
freak" Of fifty years standing, invited
twenty OF his most intimate aequain-
iaiicas home to dine with him. Mr..
Geary's present wife IL professionally
known as Mile. Cathlene, the skeleton
woman" When in showing condi-
ton she weighs seventy pounds, and,
rs her husband graphically expressed
II, there ISN'T enough meat Oh her TO
feed Scotch tarrler.n Now, however,
Mile. Cathlene IL what Mr.. Geary is
pleased 10 call ~ "fat ns butter,p and
weighs ninety pounds. In response
To question about the matrimonial
alliances of well known freaks" MIR.
Geary said "Well, the most OF 'em
marry oppositcs. only know one case
In whicba fat man married Il fat woman.
There's Hannah and John Battersby.
she's the fattest woman that ever
showed through this country; weighs
something like 600 pounds. and keeps
gaining flesh right along. John, her
husband, used TO do the living skelc-
ton business, but he got so lean that
he couldn't walk aud he had to give
up travelling. They lived here In
Frankiord. He runs blacksmith
shop aud peddles boss medicine. lie
has To he trundled around in n hand
cart. Well ! guess he won't weigh
more than sixty pounds. You heard
about That skeleton Sprague, who mar
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