Savannah morning news., 1885-05-29
LOVE AMONG THE FREAKs.
How They are COurted and Loved and
the Marriages that Follow.

HOW lnCY are COurbeO AnO LOFeO ana
the Marriages that Follow.
From the Philadelplia Record.
The marriage of the armless man, John
Huber, to Miss Sadie Bernstein, of No.
1921 Oxford street, which took place at the
Arch Street Museum on Saturday, has
caused much comment. A manager of
the museum said yesterday: "Mlss Born
stein met Huber when he was exhibiting
here four months ago. 1t was a case of
love at first sight. She is a rOsy-cheeKed
girl of21, while he is just blooming out
into his 22d summer. He is abundantly
able to provide for her, for he commands
a salary of $50 per week. AS the young
lady said to one of her friends the other
day: If he is armless he can make bet
/ ter living for me than many men would
who have two arms There areplenty of
| pretty girls who become infatuated with
/ our freaks. We once had an armless
wonder here named Jesse Feary, who was
quite a favorite with the girls. l have
! known where young ladies' would mount
| to the platform, and take a seat alongside
of him. Charles Trip, another armless
wonder, enjoyed many irritation while
here, and | know of Two girls who became
! deeply attached to him. ] have an idea
that he will marry one of them yet.
"a leEless freak once elOpediwit very
pretty girl. The freak was Walter Stew
art. he was born without legs and very
short arms. One day daughter of John
O'Brien, the Snowman, who makes his
headquarters at FTanktOrd, met Stewart,
and their acquaintance soon ripened into
love. The first thing the profession heard
of was that Stewart and the young lady
/ had eloped and been made one. They are
now living together happily, and their
union has been blessed with several chill
! dren, none of whom are defOrmed.
s'There is Annie Leak Thompson, the
brightest of all armess people, who has
Travelled over the entire world. She had
many suitors, and when she did marry
she took the man she loved / venture to
saw there are but few freaks, and they are
of the most hideOus kind, who do not have
plenty OF admirers. The marriage at our
museum of the living skeleton, Garrison,
To Bertha Clear, a young lady from West
Philadelphia, Is still fresh In the minds of
Philadelphians. on account Of the legal
complications that arose after the mar
riage. That You know was a case OF love
at first sight. When the courts stepped
| in and permitted the girls parents to take
her away from her husband, he went
away to Virginia and died OF broken
! heart.
"Freaks are constantly intermarrying.
| Their strange position in life leads them
/ to love one another more rspturously,
| perhaps. than the rest OF mankind. Upin
| Franktord. Hannah Battersby. the largest
/ large lady in the land, IS welded to John
Battersby, "A man of the skeleton order.
/ Dwarfs are not 10th 10 90 through life to-
gether hand-n-hand. Mrs. Gen. Tom
+ Thumb and Count Magri are now enjoy
ing their honeymoon. Price, the Albino,
and Madam Petty, fat woman, BECAME
attached to each other while exhibiting
here a few months ago, and have lately
married.
"When the two-headed nightingale was
here, she, they or II, just as you choose TO
call them, received ten proposals Of mar
rage, and among the suitors was a we'll
/ known dramatic manager. The girls
were used 90 such proposals and refused
/ 10 consider them. There is no accounting
| for tastes. II was not long ago that the
/ Mexican Wild Boy got stuck on the HUI
man Billiard Ball, "A lady without any
| hair on her head, and q week later Taoh,
/ the African Horned Man, proposed 70 and
WAS accepted by CirCassian girl.'