National Republican., 1883-02-15
UNITED no A rArrooED MAN.
Living skeletons, Fat and bearded wo-
mon, and DoubIc-IIondcd Girls Attend a
Wedding Dinner, with Fellow CIrios-
ity, in Frankfort.

tty, In Frankfort.
Philadelphia Times.
r. r. Mofitt tattooed man. and Miss Leo
Hernandez, the Spanish bearded lady" were
married in Frankford yesterday, and large
number of noted freaks" witnessed the GER
emony. The bride has q glossy black beard,
three inches long, and the groom is as hand
some piece of mosaic work as there is in
America. Miss Leo is 20 years old and her
husband has passed 40. His first wife was
tho " Russian giantess," 500 pound Venus,
who died of dyspepsia in Pittsburg in
1880. Before the season ended Moflitt
married Circassian beauty of Miesian
extraction. She died last summer, aud
before the Barnum show concluded its 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.. MOflitt was
compelled TO use all the eloquence which once
made him famous as a side-show blower" to
persuade her to accept him. "Old" John
Goary the most skllful sword swallower in
the country, is the stepfather of Miss Leo,
and gave her away. Miss Leo wanted to have
her beard shaved off in honor of the occasion,
but Mr.. Moftt, who is of u practical turn of
mind, opposed it on the ground that she might
not be able to raise another crop, in which
event her value as freak would be totally
destroyed Mr.. and Mrs. Moflitt went to New
York last evening.
After the ceremony Mr.. Geary, "a freak
of fifty years standing, invited twenty of his
most intimate acquaintance home to dine
with him. Mr.. Geary's present wife is pro-
fessionally known as mile. Cathlene, the
skeleton woman" When In showing con-
dition she ways seventy pounds, and, as her
husband graphically expressed IL, there isn't
enough meat on her to feed q Scotch terrier"
Now, however, Mile. Cathlene is what Mr..
Gcary is pleased to callas fat as butter" and
weighs ninety pounds. In response to ques-
tion about tho matrimonial alliances of we'll
known freaks" Mr.. Geary said "Well,
tho most of 'em marry oppostes. only know
one case in which u fat man married fat
woman. There's Hannah and John 'Battorsby.
She's the fattest woman that over showed
through this country weighs something like
600 pounds, and keeps gaining flesh
right straight along John, her hus-
band, 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 Frankford. He runs black
smith shop and peddles hoss medicine. He
has to bo trundled around in handcart.
Well, guess he won't weigh more than sixty
pounds. You heard about that skeleton,
Sprague, who married beauty out of Bun
nells woman show, didn't you? Well that
man has got two hundred pound wife and
half dozen children down in Massachusetts,.
By the way, the Battersbys have q mighty
handsome daughter Yes, n young woman.
No, neither fat nor lean. There's q fat girl
at Bunnells 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 / know of.
Forepaugh had fat man, who married an
albino and John b. Doris engaged fat
woman that was married to a canvass man. Fat
Lottie Grant is married to lean ventrilo-
quist."
Here Mr.. Geary paused to light his pipe.
Then he resumed his interesting narrative
There's Col. 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 Gen. Whatman, u dwarf
who is ugly enough to sour milk. The Chinese
giant once told me he had half dozen wives
at home, but think he was pulling my leg
That ugly little Chinese dwarf who was with
the Barnum show last season was on the flirt
all the time. He has wife and five children
in Hong Kong but he is engaged to be
married to as sleek n looking white
woman as you ever saw. He met her in
Baltimore, and she followed the show for
month. Why, you'd be astonised to know the
number of women that fall in love with
Freaks" The historian said this in way
calculated to convey the impression that in
"a
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 niggers that FL
rini took to London and called Zulus are now
married to English women. Fanny Burdette,
one of the smallest women in the country, is
the wife of big Bill Bristol, side-show blower
She is now in Boston. OF course you know
Tom Thumb married Minnie Warren. Mai
Little Finger and wife, both little folks, trav-
eled with O'Brien's circus last year. Little
Com. Mutt is married to q dwarf but he
thinks every big woman on the road is struck
ON him. Mme Helene, the bearded woman,
married DIR. Clark, the lecturer shaved her
beard off and quit the show business.
man in tho business, married
sideshow ticket taker, and lives somewhere
near Pittsburg. Nine. Lyons, of Syracuse,
was married to a Snowman. She travels with
her daughter, who does the Circassian girl
business. Annie Jones, another bearded wo-
man, has two of the incest children you ever
saw. Oh, l forgot about Eugene Feralto, a
skeleton, who married Circassan girl. Ida
Woodward, the original tattooed woman, mar
ried tho man who painted her. Why, Ger
tainly, they are all painted Barnum's india
rubber man, that guy that can pull his skin
around, let it snap back like gum, has wife
and eight children in Germany. Osmund,
Inc marry man, married inc Lnree nanueu
lady. She died, and he liked the family so
well that he married her mother, who is a
snake charmer. Lurline, the water queen,
amt exactly freak, but she's in the bust
ness. Her right name is Sallie Swift, and she
first came out as club swinger. She mar
ried nobleman in London and lives in bang
up style.
"Oh, tho 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-
Christne-I mean. Well, I'll bet that more
than a dozen men have offered to marry her.
l guess the most of EN- were after her money,
but she knows il, and won't take 'em up.
Why, one cranky Dutchman followed that
girl from Berlin to st. Peters
burg, and sent her an offer of marriage
every day. / guess that fellow dropped about
$1,000 travelling around after that double
headed gal"
As the reporter started to the door Mr..
Geary said: "Come up again in the spring
and see the old woman when she gets some of
the flesh Off her." an invitation TO which the
feminine skeleton at his side kindly added
her voice,
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Beating n Bartender.
Pcck's sun.
Probably in Chicapo there is mora hnainess