Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-30
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From fhe Ser YORK sun.
/ 1t is very 6ne thing for young man
/ to be able to slap himself on the chest %
times day and say to an admiriug crowd
/ OF gazeYs at 10c. head, Behold in me
/ the only dOe-taced boy in thIs broad land"
The noble Russian youth J0-,Jo has had
this proud privilege Tor the last l6Inonths,
and ne has grown lat on the sleSels il has
brought MIN. just as likely as not he
would have gone on alOue happily repeat
lag the story Of his life Tor the next 10
years II young woman named hee-BOO
had not embarked on the wild career Of
being the ''only dog-faced girl in Ameri-
ca Some day this week they are going
to De married.
Neither Jo-Jo nor kee-Boo ever wasted
any of their time IN GRADES or IN monkey
Ing around with rattles or such civilized
foollshness. They both began lie in the
woods, with nothing but goose
bones and chicken wings tor toys.
They were thousands OF miles
apart then, and no sensible sporting
man would have bet oHe to thirty that
they would ever meet each other. Yet
they aid. According to the yeracl0us red
circus posters which first ,0id to New
ork citizens about J0-Jp. he began lite
in small way on the steppes OF Russian
Iartary. His father and mother were
good subjects OF the Car, bur fheir faces
were Quilt on the save terrier model, and
they had silky red whiskers growing from
! their tOrehcads down to their throats.
That was why they built their cabin home
away out on the steppes where they
would have no neighb0rs. JO-JO was an
exact miniature of his father.
One day circus agent. in flaming
red, yellow and green uniform, went out
on the steppes with an imperial courier,
and found old Mr.. Jo-Jo's house. He
hauled out bag with more gold in it
than Mr.. Jo-jO had ever before believed
was in existence, and offered to give 1t for
little Joey. The gold, to quote the words
OF the circus man, got in its fine work, as
usual, and in few days the circus man
and his little dog-faced boy were in ST.
Petersburg giving exhibitions, and earn
ing stacks Of rubles and kOpecks every
day.
Then the circus man thought it would
no good thing to show American citl-
zens what dOg-taced boy was like, SO he
sailed Tor New York and hired JO-JO out
with Bsrnum. Since then Jo.JO has
travelled all over this country, and has
earned more dollars than be knew what
to DO with. just now ne is at museum
in the BOwery.
Little Miss kee- BoO's earliest recOllec-
lions are Of the dark pine forests of AlIch-
lgan. NobOdy knows who her father and
mother are, because the lumDermen who
found kee-B0O running wild in the woods
couldn't discover any traces of her par
ents. She was handed around from one
show manager to another in the wild
West, and finally brought up in an
aesthetic Boston museum six months ago.
She was regarded as leading attraction
IN the freak line, because her face was
like black and tan's and covered with
long hair.
1t so happened that within a month JO-
10 was billed at the same museum.
Wicked BostOnese who do not know any
thing about the course Of true love thought
they would fight, but that j. just where
they made Il big mistake. From the very
first To-Jo began to throw soft glances at
kee-BOO, and after they had known each
other for month their Boston manager
caught them holding hands and talking
soft to each other in the al0amng. Jo-Jo
had taught her French and German. so
that the manager could not understand
what they said, but the Snowman had
been there himself IN bis Young days aud
al once saw that JO-Jo was proposing to
kee- BOO.
That very week he shipped the girl off
TO the museum in this city so as to break
of the match, but he only made things
worse, for Jo-Jo howled and made things
very unpleasant around his part OF B0s-
ton. Last week the wicked Boston mana
ger surrendered and sent Jo-Jo to New
York. True 10 his love, ne FASTENED to
her side and joined her in exhibiting at 10
cents look.
Their wedding takes place this week.
10 tot no. Is
~ white silk 90 as to he in good trim 70
act as bridesmaid. The living skeleton Is
going TO be best man, and the manager OF
the museum viii give the bride away.