Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19

walk and he had to give up travelling. They live here in Frankford. He runs black smith shop and peddles hoss medicine. He has to be trundled around in a hand-cart. We'll, guess he won't weigh more than sixty pounds. You heard about that skeleton, Sprague, who married beauty out of Bun nell's woman show, didn't you? Well, that man has got two-hundred-poHnd wife and half dozen children in Massachusetts. By the way, the Battersbys have mighty hand some daughter, Yes, young woman. No, neither fat nor lean. There's 8 fat girl at Bunnell's that is married to an animal-keeper. John and Mary Powers travel as brother and sister, but they are man and wife That's the only fat couple I know of Forepaugh had a fat man, who married an Albino, and John B. Doris engaged fat woman that was married to a canvas man. Fat Lottie Grant is married to lean ventriloquist.
 EooENTRIc1TIEs OF DwARFs.
 Here Mir. Geary paused to light his pipe. Then he resumed his interesting narrative. There's Colonel Goshen, the giant, you know; he got struck on little Daisy Henry, who isn't much higher than his knee. She's the freak that married General Whatman, dwarf, who is ugly enough to sour milk. The Chinese giant once told me he had half 8 dozen wives at home, but I think he was pulling my leg. That ugly little Chinese dwarf who was with the Barnum show last  8 wife and five children in Hong Kong, but he is engaged to be married to as sleek looking white woman as you ever saw. He met her in Baltimore, and she followed the show for month. Why you'd be astonished to know the number of women that fall in love with freaks The historian said this in a way calculated to convey the impression that innumerable fair ones had smiled upon him during his long and eventful career. The sword swallower paused to make the point more effective. On resuming he said: Half a dozen of them Cape Town ringers that Firini took to London and called Zulus are now married to English women. Fanny Burdette, one of the small est women in the country, is the wife of big Bill Bristol, a side-show blower. She is now in Boston.
 HAPPY MATRIMoNY.
 Madame Helene, the bearded woman, married Dr. Clark, the lecturer, shaved her beard off and quit the show business. Madame Myers, the best bearded woman in the business, married 8 side show ticket taker and lives somewhere near Pittsburg Madame Lyons, of Syracuse, was married to a snowman. She travels with her daughter, who does the Circassian girl business Annie Jones, another bearded woman, has two of the incest children you ever saw. Oh, forgot about Eugene Feralto, a skel- eton who married a Circassisn girl. Ida
 
 married the man who painted her. Why, certainly, they are all painted. Barnum's India rubber man, that guy that can pull his skin around, and let it snap back like gun, has wife and eight children in Germany, Osmund, the hairy man, married the three handed lady, She died and he liked the family so well that he married her mother, who is 8 snake-charmer. Lurline, the water queen, ain't exactly freak, but she's in the business. Her right name is Sallie Swift and she first came out as a club -swinger. She married neblenaan in London and lives in bang up style.
 OFFERS OF MARRIAGE.
 ftOh, the Albinos and Circassians and gals with great heads of hair are so numerous that no one pays any attention to their mar riages. Talking about funny things, there's that freak, the double headed girl-Millie Christine, I mean. We'll, I'll bet that more than dozen men have offered to marry her. I guess the most of lem were after her mon ey, but she knows it and won't take lem up. Why, one cranky Dutchman followed that double headed girl from Berlin to St. Peters burg and sent her an offer of marriage every day. I guess that fellow dropped about $2,00O travelling around after that double headed gal"
 As the reporter started to the door Mir. Geary said Come up again in the spring and see the old woman when she gets some of the flesh of her," an invitation to which the feminine skeleton at his side kindly ad- ded her voice.