Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-09
Love Among the Freaks,

The marriage of the armless man,
John Huber, to Miss Sadie Bernstein, of
No. ll24 Oxford street, which took place
at the Arch Street Museum on Saturday,
has cansed much comment. A manager
Of the museum said yesterday: miss
Omstein met Huber when he was eXhib-
nng here four months ago. 1t was a
ase Of love at first sight. She is a rosy
checked girl of twenty-one, while he is
Just blooming out into his twenty-second
mmer. He is abundantly able to pro-
Ile for her, for he commands a salary
Il ty7j per week. AS the young lady said
Il lone of her friends the other day: If
s. Us armless, he can make better living
,ne than many men would who have
arms There are plenty of pretty
zwho become infatuated with our
As. We once had an armless wonder
i q named Jesse Feary, who was quite
. lTorite with the girls. l have known
-sre young ladies would mount to the
4 tform and take a seat beside him.
aries Trip, another armlesS wonder,
49yed many a Irritation while here, and
now two girls who became deeply
he'd to him. have an idea that he
marry one of them yet.
4 A legless freak once eloped with q
Nv pretty girl. The freak was Walter
s awart. He was born without legs and
4 WITH very short arms. One day a daugh-
Hoi John 0'Brien, the Snowman, who
4 makes his headquarters at Frankfort, met
Stewart, and their acquaintance soon
Ipened into love. The first thing the
a Dession heard of was that Stewart and
the Young lady had eloped and been
made one They are now living together
q happily, and their union has been blessed
With several children, none of whom are
AiOrmed.
There is Annie Leak Thompson, the
highest Of all armless people, who has
3 nyeled over the entire world. She had
q many suitors, and when she did marry
She took the man she loved. l venture
bsay there are but few freaks, and they
+ re Of the most handsome kind, who do
not have plenty of admirers. The mar
rage at our museum of the living skele-
ION, Garrison, to Bertha Clear, a young
lady from West Philadelphia, is still
mesh in the minds of Philadelphians, on
account OF the legal complications that
arose after the marriage That, you know,
Vas case OF love at first sight. When
ne courts stepped in and permitted the
NIs parents to take her away from her
husband, he went away to Virginia and
uel Of broken heart.
IN freaks are constantly intermarrylng.
men Strange position in life leads them
~ l9'e one another, more rapturously,
p'Hi9p than the rest of mankind. Up
~ frankIord Hannah Battersby, the
ia!es5 lady in the land, is welded to
'uln BatterSby, a man of the skeleton
Tuf' DwarfS are not loath to 60 through
.g ~, Ir9gether hand-in-hand. Mrs. Gen
Sa. ION Thumb and Count Magri are
AVN enjoying their honeymoon. Price,
-s Aono, and Nine. Petty, afat woman,
< S:Ie attached to each other while eX-
T ,9 here a few months ago, and have
~ey married.
"len the two-headed nightingale was
m, she, they or it, just as you choose to
ulem, received ten proposals OF mar
n.y., and among the suitors was well
WI dramatic manager. The girls
s used to such proposals and refused
,3uSlder them. There is no account
Mt tastes. 1t was not long ago that
s,r %exI lear! Wild Boy got stuck on the
Juan ,al Billiard Ball, lady without any
h N , w her head, and week later Taoh,
}, "ilcah Horned Man, proposes and
accepted by a Circassian girl. p
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