Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-08-24
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The marriage ~ tle 4rali - nl4a, Joha
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liza Ozisrl street. ~hlca togk phase 4I
IN AFen street Museum "a Saturday, hAs
eaased assen comment. A manager u the
asassam said yesssFdays Ms Bornsssla
met h4Ler sh-a he ~as exh.htiag here
1ge uloatAs ago. lt ~as ease % love as
arsl ghL sl4e = a rosy checked gLrt Il
JSsoty -olle. while be Is Just blooming e'at
in his t~sstY -sscoad summer. De 10
abaulaally a1le ~ provide Tor hex, f0r be
eoaIiaanis = salary 9f s.5 per week A.
bhe ysang LADY said ~ one u Der friends
the ether day. ''lf be Is armiess be can
unaks better living for nae than nauy
men would Who have two arms" Ih''re
are pleaty II pretty girls Who become n
fatualed Sith our FREAKS. We once had
an aruiless 0onisr here named jesse
Feary, xho was quite a fayorits With The
girls. have known where yOaag ladies'
would mount ID the platform aud take a
Sal alongsids 0f him Charles Tripp, AL
othsr arln.ess wonder, eHjOyet maay a
nlrtatiDa While hers, aud l know u two
girls Who Dseame deeply attached u him
l hAFs al idea that 40 VII marry one Ot
them yet.
A leglsss freak once elOpst with a
very pretty girL The freak was W alter
Stewart. H5 Was born without legs AMI
very short arms. One day a daHg Inter OF
John O'Br Ien, the Snowman, waO makes
his headquarters az Frankford, met stew =
art, aud thsir acquaintance soon ripeaed
I'll .tfsgs
heart II was hat Stewart and the young
iady had eloEsd and been made one.
They are now liviag togetherloa apply, and
their uaion has been blessed with several
children. none OF whom are deformed.
There Is Annie Leak Thompson. the
brightest Of all artnless people, who has
travelled over the entire world. She had
many sultors, and when she did marry she
took the man she loved. l venture TO say
there are but few freaks aud they are
OF the most hideoas 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 tho legal complications that arose
fafter the marriage. That you know was
a case Of love at first sight When the
courts stepped Ia and permitted the girPs
parents 70 take her away from her hus-
band, he went a way 70 Virginia aud died
OF broken heart
FREAKS are constantly intermarrying
Their strange position in life leads them
% love one another more rapturously per-
caps than the rest OF mankind Up in
Frankford, Hannah Battersby. tho largest
lady In the land, = married to John Bat
tersby. man OF the skeleton order.
Dwarfs are not 10th 70 go through life
together hand-in hand Mrs. General
Tom Thutab and Count Magri are now en-
jOying their honeymoon Price, the AL
bino, and Mme. Petty, a fat woman, be-
came attached 10 each other while exhibit
lng here a few months ago, and have late
ly married.
Nv hen the two headed nightingale was
here, she. they. or it, just as you choose to
call them, received ten proposals of mar =
riage, AMI among the suitors was a weSl-
known dramatic manager. The girls were
used - such proposals aud refused to con-
slider them There is no accounting for
tastes IL was not long ag) that the Mex
lean wild boy got stuck on the human bill
liard ball. lady without any hair on her
head and a week later, Taoh, the African
horned man proposed To and was accept
ed by a CIR cGssian girLp