The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-02-22
"FREAKS" IN WEDLOCK.
Tho Bearded Woman Marrics II Tnttooed
Man.
H.um Me Philadclphn Times, Etlr,mry /

From the Phiiadc,phia Times, Fcbr,mry II.
r.. r. MofItt, a tatoocd man, and Miss
Leo Hernandez, the Spanish bearded
lady" were married in Frankford yestcr.
day and large number of noted freaks"
witnessed the ceremony. The bride has
glossy black beard, three inches long,
and the groom is as handsome piece OF
Mosaic work rs there is in America.
Miss Leo is twenty.six years old and her
husband has passed forty. His first wife
was the Russian giantess," a 500 pound
Venus, who died of dyspepsia in Pitts.
burg in 1880. Before the season ended
Moffitt married a Circas,ian beauty Of
Milesian extraction. She died last sum
mer, and before the Barnum show cen.
cluded its season the tattoOed widOwer
was head over heels in love with the
fascinating Spanish bearded lady"
Although bearded, she possessed all the
coyncss Of her sex, and Mr. Mofiitt was
compelled TO use al! the eloqnence v hich
once made him famous ~ sidc-show
"blower" to persuade her to accept him.
"Old" John Gcary, the most skiilful
sword swalowcr in the couDtry, is tho
step-father Of Miss Leo and gave her
away. Miss Leo wanted to have her
beard shaved Off in honor Of the occa-
sion, but Mr.. MolIilt, who is of "A practi.
cal 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. Montl went to
New York last evening.
uIS.EE OF THE fKEAKs.
After the ceremony Mr.. Gcary, 20
freak" Of fifty years standing, invited
twenty Of his most intimate ncqlain.an
ccs home to dine with him. Mr.. Geary's
present wife is professionally known as
mile. Cathlene, the skeleton woman"
When in showing condition she weighs
seventy pounds, aud her husband graphi
cally expressed it, there isn't enough
meat on her to feed Scotch terrier"
Now, however, Mile Cathlcne is what
Mr.. Geary is pleased to call ~ fat rs
butter" and weighs ninety pounds. In
response to question about the matri-
monial alliances Of we'll known freaks"
Mr. Gcary said: "WelI, the most of 'em
marry oppostcs. only know one case
in which fat man married Il lat woman.
There's Hannah and John I'atteraby.
She's the fattest woman that ever showed
through this country weighs something
like 600 pounds, and keeps gaining flesh
right straight along. John, her husband
used TO do the living skeleton business,
but he got 30 lean that he couldn't walk
and he had to Z We up travelling. They
live he5e in Frankford lie runs II
blacksmith shop and pcddles hoes medi
cine. He has to be trundlcd around in
handcart. Well, | guess he won't
weigh more than sixty pounds. You
heard about that skeleton, Sprngue, who
married q beauty out Of Bunnell's show,
didn't yon? Well that man has got
two-nun,lred-pound wife and half a
dozen children down in Massachusetts.
by tho way, the Battersbys have
mighty handsome daughter. Yes,
young woman. No, neither fnt nor
lean. There's fnt girl at Bunnelps that
is married to an animal-keeper. John
and Mary Powers travel m brother and
sister, but they are man and wife. liat's
the only fat couple know of. Fore
pau gh had fat man, who married an
woman that was married to canvas
man. Fat Lottie Grant is married to
lean ventriloquist."
ECCENTRICITIEs OF DwARFs.
Here Mr.. Geary paused TO light his
pipe. Then he resumed his Interesting
narrative. "Thcsc's Col. Goshen, tho
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, dwarf, who il
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
as 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 looking white woman Ms you
over saw. Ho met her in Baltimore, and
she followed the show for month. Why
you'd he astonished to know the num-
Der of women that fall in love with
"freaks.'" The historian said this in
way calculated to convey tho impression
that innumerable fair ones have smiled
upon him during his long eventful
career. The sword Bwallower paused to
make The point more effective. On re.
Stunning he said: "Half dozen Of them
Cape Town niggers that Firini took to
London and called Iulus are now mar
ried to English women. Fanny Durdett,
one of the smallest women in the conn
try, is the wife of big Bill Bristol, :.
OF course you know Tom Thumb mar
ger and wife, both little folks, travelled
with O'Brien,s circus last year. Little
Commodore Mutt is married to q dwarf,
but he thinks every big woman ON the
road is struck on him.
HAPPY MATRiMoNY.
MADAME Helene, the bearded woman.
married DR.. Clark, tho lecturer, shaved
her beard of and quit the show business.
Madame Myers, the beat bearded woman
in the business, married side show
ticket.taker and lives somewhere near
Pittsburg. Madame Lyons Of Syracuse
was married to n Snowman. She travels
with her daughter, who does the Circas-
sian girl business. Annie Jones, another
bearded woman, has two Of the incest
children you ever saw. Oh, I forgot
about Eugene Feralto, skeleton, who
married a Circassan girl. Ida Woud-
ward, the original tattooed woman, mar
ried the man who painted her. Why,
certainly, they are all painted. Bar.
NUNS India rubber man, that guy that
can pull hia skin around. lei it snap
back like gum, has wife and eight
children in Germany. Osmund, the hairy
man, married the three handed LADY,
She died and he liked the family so we'll