St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-20
IT'S A PRIZE PUZZLE.
A Being Born Which is Very
Much Of a Conundrum for
the Physicians.
It Is Neither Human Nor
Brute and Sports but a
Single Eye.
A Little Girl Miraeulously Es-
capeS Death--The Ser
mons Of Sunday.
A New COlored Chureh--Will-
lam Vean Takes an Over
dose Of Poison.

A something" has been discovered
in this city which will prove physio-
logical study and veritable human
s'pigs in the clover for scientists to
puzzle their noodles over, and which,
beyond any doubt, outrivals the cele-
brated ''ossified man." as far as its rel
alive right to stand at the top in the
realms of freakdom are concerned. The
something" is freak of nature of the
queereSt sort, and ever since the dis
covery has been made the scientific and
medical men of the city have been
revealing in sort of grand artistic
frenzy. Last Sunday Bohemian
woman named Mrs. Lara PraZniski,
living with her husband on the flats,
underneath the Washington avenue
sembled anything but a human being.
The midwife and doctor who attended
the lady
NEARLY TAINTED
when they saw the being that had been
given life. 1t weighed only three
pounds, and looked like a miniature
headless trunk. There was neck, but
no head, OF rather the head and neck
were one. On the very top of this head
or neck, was an opening resembling a
mouth, and within few inches of the
cavity cleaned single eye. The
arms and hands were natural, but the
lower limbs resembled those of sheep,
Is the feet were shaped like cloven
hoofs, and were covered with long
hirsute growth. When born the some
thing snarled and spat and the single
eye cleaned like diamond. AS soon
as Mrs. Prozmski recovered sufficiently
she asked to see her child, but the doc
tor advised her husband not to show it
to her, as he feared the shock would be
TOO GREAT FOR HER.
to bear up under. So the child has been
kept in q separate room under lock and
key, and the father, who Is a labOrer,
has remained at home to watch it. At
the present time it is well and thriving.
but keeps up such horrible noise day
and night that people living
house have become frightened. All
night long it keeps up the strange
snar]ing noise, and to any one on the
outside it sounds as though some ami
NAL was Gagged up on the inside and
struggling to free itself. The single
eye grows brighter and larger, day by
day, and there is something decidedly
awful and uncanny about it. The doc
tor who was in attendance when the
child was born. says he cannot account
for
THE STRANGE BEING,
and does not think 1t will live long.
Prozinski is superstitious, and thinks
that either he or his wife is being pun
ished for some misdoing. The matter
has remained quiet, and even the Curl
Gus neighbors did not know until a few
days ago what the awful thing was that
is locked up in that small room. Some
of the men proposed to force an en-
trance into the house, and solve the
mystery, but nothing was done. PROF.
niski refuses to be seen. Mrs. Prozniski
as yet knows nothing, as she is still con-
fined to her bed, and her relatives have
told her that her husband has taken the
child to the hospital. A GLOBE re-
porter called at the house yesterday,
but was refused admittance.