Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-03
MIDeETs MATED TO GIANTS.

MlDGEIS MATED TO GIANTS.
Natural Freaks Who Surprised the World
by nI-Assortsd Marriages.
Philadelphia Times.
freaks fall in love, fall out o! it, marry,
have children grow Jealous, Wsnder oil 10
other fancies and ave happy and miserable
lust like ordinary people" said a dime
museum official, land they make some OF
the oueerest matches imaginable. Ii Is
said that in selecting life partners people
generally choose their opposites, and It Is
certainly true of freaks. Th're was Mrs.
Hannah Bartersby, one OF tbs latest OF oil
fat women. Her husband, John BstteTs'
by, wss living skeleton. No sooner were
they married than she began to lose hesh
and he to gain it. His weight Increased
so rapidly that he soon became too stout to
exhibit as q skeleton, and, like Othelio, nls
occupation was gone.
Baron LittleGnger, the Italian dwarf, IS
only q little over three feet high, but ne
married q woman who stands five feet SIX
inches in hsE stockings. They have had
the children, one Of Rhom IS already
;arTsr ,1nss his father. DwaIts very ire
nnsntIv seem to fancy PEOPLE of large size
Ibis vas the case with Che Nab the CnI'
n n sas Dwarf, who married Louise Coleman
full sized attractive young lady Of Bros =
lyn. They had some trouble IN getnng
married st first, because the lady was
Catholic, and no priest could be found who
would marry her to heather C6lnese.
But this difficulty was overcome oy hnding
some other ecclesiastic or some magistrate
who consented to tie the knot.
"Just as dwsr's prefer large people, so
giants seem to find their attinlty among
those of low stature. Colonel Goshen, .
man about eight feet in height, married
a woman rather under the medium tize
Colonel Bates, another very tall giant,
vas married to at least one or TWO
ordinary sized women before ne welded
HIS nresent wife, Anna Swan, the Now
SCOTIA sIautess. This couple have de-
IiUbtful residence at Seville, Ohio, that Is
n6ite like a giants castle out OF a iairy
story. The ceilings and doors are OF great
Insight, while the beds, tables, chairs sn1
other furniture are like that descrioed Of
Jack, the Giant Killer.
"Ouite often freaks show excellent Juog,,
ment in their matrimonial ventures ana
marry persons admirably suited to them IN
al respects. Every ons knows ho" hap
n;Iv Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thum lived TO
,e,bs- and the latter bids fair to be equal
10 contented in her second marriage WIN
Goupt Magri, the noble Italian Dwarf
Then there is Pat o Brien, the lrisn elsnI,
vbo married the German giantess. Ihey
srs a snleudidly matched couple, and win
their bouncing baby are as happy as clans
at high tide. .,Lo,
"FTeaks make their strangest natches
vbsn thew marry persons in no way con-
neeted with the business. Iney APPEAR .
have an irresistible fascination lot SOM
nsonle. and the more monstrous ana iepul
- they are the greater seems their power
- cbarm. | once saw very pretty wen
S,ssssd Young girl gazing with IN expires
IS ,bs most intense admiration 81
Tom~of Tom and Hattie. the veil SnoTI
aUstrsl;an wild children-who 10 q oflVei
~ ;mbecile. For fully half en- hour sue
.,soJ asi # spellbound, and it Sss only o;
The most earnest entrestles sha 'he use H =
1snsls force that her friends were nnany
sSis "a inducs her leave the spot. Every
-, Who reads the newspapers must re
Sr,haT how a handsome Brooklyn g'Si {
uoaS family was completely tsscins'ed o'
Sba,ge' one of Barnum's blaekesr, mos
-onTIsive Lulus, q few years ago, ana mar
RED him in spite ct all ner ir'eHu' 'ON''
do. Ia, avsr On sxhibi
,;op In this country was oreeA sec cap
tH;n sid by come people to gave oeeI
80 vbo travelled with the Bsrnum sno'
nS Mad a number of very hsndsom'
HHu,or5s He had been made prisoner Q
-. ;,hebitants of some savage lsISno au
sut,oosd "a a means of torture. mere We
nIacs IN his entire body the size OF
- head that had not been treaIsI
iS;s vav His face was tsttooed In sueh
manner as to make him anything ou' % =
tractiye in appearance, ana nus sAs a.
noautors even shaved OF bis hslr Snu =.
800 eyery inch of his SCALP Sow
1S;rg these drawbacks, he married
handsome American woman, VINO Va
y.a5 ~ him. Instead OF the hsrmi !,
Es generally used BY the tattoosrs, u
Pc employed indigo, which hns,iy ?.
Sn"sS blindness and other sefio9s sl@ raa'
ou SegTSasrsbody will remember ;. B. GAR :,
s~;n- skeleton we had on exniI
son, s - North AM a.ch streets du, .nnS
tlon 81 II issss4, who acquired .G susn
$500 $500 nnder the sobriquet Of tn" &C.
Rr;ds9room,' from his having ut ensT pS
anS msrried young woman OF Wes, m
sdslnbia. Her parents aud fIlenos
aIs iS .ha. sbe was temporarily insane: D
ost probably she was only suffering iso
.hot psculiar power Of fascination Snl
Ht ssan TO have over many poop
w - yould have been greatly SURPRISED
- ~ could have seen the large NUMBER
you T IOs,srs which Garrison daily receive
'OS "AurOpos of the skeleton StidegrOo
hstors going into the museum business
~ J merchant on South Eighth sire
AItbourh bis body was go thin ms iscg &c
rO Continued quite plump, and WI
S-srsed In ordinary costume there was as nc !.
49, ;s snDearance to indicate that
- ~ very much leaner than many
-, When dressed in skin-hthng Oh
sS;r, and tights, however, bis extrSsroln'
,h;nness was very apparent Inere
manv other people walking our streets
IS a. The skeleton business to per-