Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-09
THE SKELETONS WIFE.
4 Curiosity Courts a Competitor
in a RGauty Show,
a Courtshlp Bspet with Diff
culties Sow Minnie T1omp-
Gol was Cclsolad.
She Missed tao Prize but CAUGHT
a Husband

Special to the st. L,4is Pc, vi patch.
NEW Yous, Jmuarv 4-Whcu
Tstac W S~pr4,l2, NJ living rl-c'atol
ct Bnunetp museum, was to.d rhot
roau . No lG aad takre ,h0 prrze ~
the competition lstely clio I'd IA Ncv
York, ne 5urnt iotg teasa dae red his
hat upGa ,ha dor. r,t,lcd his bones
and declare. wa. the iu 'gca ware not
tit 10 decide a qiesuon Of female
beauty. IL would have made - dlf
fereat decision 'ad have awgrdtd the
frat o''A' {, No II, GIig7 NIin,ia
Thompson Mig Thompson vas il
deed a very pre- possessing young wo.
mat, and, With a senBibie apprecia.
ton Cf her own char,os. she was Diausd
at not rec, ing the 500, or even the
$50 that wa7 given to the beauty who
carried off thc second ptiz3. But TIE
skeleton smiled on her 40 soon "a he
dried his tears and she Ras consuled.
Not that tbs skeieton ia tho hiahast
type Of manly b.,u1y. His arms arc
bores hardly concealed oy tho skin
tina covers them, and his leg9 seem
ALMOST TOO THIN
to carry eveuhis attonuatsd form. But
his lace has a fcAuk and lndependonC
exp ession, and, though upon aman of
Ordinary propoEAJns 1t mightsho a
some what unbeclming prominence OF
CHEEK and cnlu bones, ae compared
with tho outline of his frail body 1T
appears to b. positively fss. lis
head Ia surmourted with a fine shock
of brick coiored hair and q goatee
mustache of the same hue adorns his
countenance, Miss Thompson was
attracted to HIM at once. She said she
did net like fat man, and looked upon
the Hon. VIM. M. Eyarts as the bsau
ideal # grace. at least nhe 90 con
sidefeu him until she was sought by
the skeleton, VINO, to her thinking,
ecipsed the awyer. Miss Thompson
IL not herEe,i u thin lady. Sac weighs
p-oo-b.y four times as mUCl as the
skeIeJCl, bu5 ss he only turns the
scale d, forty pounds, il will be seea
that sns IS not a~blorrAally large She
mag 10 callod plump, and sle IL very
pretty, Sne Is, perhaps, 30 years 0;
age-I7e years Che skeietcI's junior.
After The New York exhibition was
over the skeleton and Miss Thompson
met often by appointment at the
muBeIn, and the managers Of the
show complained that ne WA feeding
upon his affections and
GROWING FAT.
This must have been a mistake, how.
ever, fer his weight, as he showed Ivy
getting on the scales, had not H.
creased.
Another, and an older error, too,
was corrected. 1t had b5en currently
reported among the ourioalties of the
show that the skeleton had neither
lungs, heart nor liver, and hat a
steady aye could look through him
SEQ an object bahind. The existence
of respiratory and digestive organs
may still be q matter of doubt, but
Miss Thompson Indignantly repudiates
the rumor that he has no heart,
The courtship was quite short. Miss
Thompson told her lover in plain
prose the history of her simple life
He gave her a poem of twenty four
verses, fully describing his own, This
poem he is in the habit or selling for
five cents a copy, but he charged
nothing at all f)r her copy, and she,
overcome by this last proof Of her
skeleton lovers devotion, promis d
to be nis wife In q fatrful moment
the skeleton was sent to the Brook.
Ign show.
HE WAS IN DESPAIR,
but his true love comforted him, and
an appointment was made for SasGr
day night. At 9 o'clock tho skeleton
wac at the New York musuem, where
he met Miss Thompson. At 10 o'clock
they we're in jersey City, and st II
o'clock they had been united in mar
riage by the Rev. Mr.. Gardner. They
returned to Brooklyn and kept the
matter a secret until yesterday morn
ing, when the skeleton announced it to
Mai. Bates, The newly.mgde Mira
Sprague has consented to support her
husband on he exhibition platform
She will appear in Brooklyn to day
sitting beside him and billed: "Tha
Skelston's Wife Il lost the $780,
said the newly married lady, Shut ]
won g husband,