Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-04

of which is covered from head TO foot with
hair Warner the we'll known circus agent.
has been five times to Mandelsy endesvoring
to secure them. They are attached to some
petty court, and the people viii not allow
them to leave the country.
This is Just the trouble. In eastern eoun-
tries when there is any peculiar formation OF
q man or woman, or even an animal, the peo-
pie fancy that they have some supernatural
attributes, and practice some kind OF fetish
worships. They will not part with them, lest
some dire calamity might fall over the coun-
try. The freaks are kept attached to the
courts of the princes and kings, and are well
cared for.
There is reported to be some~ here 10 The
interior of India family with tails and COW
cred with hair. A great deal of money has
been spent in trying TO get them, and great
deal more is likely to be spent for these
people would discount any curiosity ever
placed on exhibition, and create a Juror in
scientific circles.
ut is well authenticated that there is
tribe of dwarfs in South Africa. Du Chaillu,
the French traveller, speaks of them 1t is
well authenticated that there is race of
earth dwellers in one of the districts of Cor
lila land. Farini sent over TO England last
year a number of what he called earth
! >.
the real tribe have never been placed on ex-
hibition. They are dwarfs, the talest being
not more than two feet four inches in height,
Forepsugh has had a man endesvoring TO Sc
cure specimens for two years, and has spent
S4 900, but could not get them out OF the
country.
There is three armed man in Java, and
all the circus men have spent thousands of
dollars in endeavoring to get him, without
success The arm is said TO be perfect and
not a protuberance. Taoh, the horned man
who was placed on exhibition last winter, is
South American. 1t took three years TO get
him. and he was traced from place to place.
The agent started out with $1,000, deter
mined to capture Taoh or perish in the at
tempt. He traced the human unicorn from
place TO place for year and half, until he
got dead broke in Buenos Ayres.
! The smallest living woman who has re-
tanned her intellectual faculties lives in this
State. She is the daughter of Scotch-Irsh
father, who is in pretty good circumstances.
She is only about nineteen inches in height,
so that she is shorter in stature by some
inches than Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb. Her
father will not consent to her being placed
on exhibition.
Circus people spend from $1,000 to S20,-
900 a year in wild goose chases over the coun-
try. They are continually receiving letters and
kilograms about freaks, which, when investi-
gated, are not curosities at all. Somebody
telegraphed from a place in Ohio about a
child two weeks old. whose head could be
put in an ordinary tea cup. Jim Robertson
Immediately started out and found that the
child was small, weakly baby and that the
head was in proportion to the size of the
body, which was about four pounds weight.
| "AnOther man has been writing to me for
two months from Virginia town, that he has
child which he swears mas three perfect
eyes. | wrote to the editor of newspaper
there, and he replied that he had investigated
the case and found that what was said to be
third eye was a wart Immediately between
and on a line with the child's eyes.
1--WE know of a headless child in a Ger
man family in this state. 1t mas no head, but
a dubious formation, in no way resembling a
head. performs the functions of breathing
and taking in food. 1t is about years old,
and is said to be attractive rather than repul-
sive, like many monstrosites. Two boys,
about II years old, who are the most perfect
abinos in the country, live down town, but
would not accede to any inducements to go
on exhibition. They come up here regularly
and compare points " it'll other albinos They
are of Irish parentage, and understand there
are great many albinos in the Emerald
isle. Philadelphia NerS.