The Springdale news., 1889-10-04
AN AUSTRIAN GIANTESS.
She Is Six Feet Six and Weighs 300 Pounds
 at the Age of Eleven.

ShB Is DIX eeL Nlh anu NeignS bbD POEnuh
 at the Age of Eleven.
 The most famous child in the German empire just now is Elizabeth Lyska. 1 Every German daily has told its read CTS hoy she looks and acts, how much she e54ts and drinks and what kind Of clothes she wears. All Berlin is calling upon her, as all Vienna called upon her when she was at the Austrian capital. Professors and officers and doctors and priyy councillors and other 1 German big-wigs are received hy her daily. Even the great Virchow passed ! several hours with her. chatted with her familiarly, and eventually wrote an elaborate description and biography of her. W hich he will read soon before the Anthropological society of Berlin.
 Elizabeth is getting all this atten- tion, not because she is pretty or clever. but because she is big. According to Yirchow, she is the biggest girl of her years whom Europeans of modern times have seen. Though but eleven years old she is six feet six inches tall and weighs about three hundred pounds
 Elizabeth was born on the Manor Wiessolyj in the valley of the Danube. Her parents were poor peasants, not taller nor broader than other peasants. She was the youngest of five children, none of whom, save herself, is remark ably large. Four hours after her birth she weighed ten pounds. She grew as other children grow till she was four years old Then she began 10 be q lit- tie giantess. In her fifth year she gained ten inches in height She out grew her blue cotton gowns and wooden shoes so rapidly that Papa Lyska, who was trying to support Mamma Lyska and four other little Lyszas on some thing over Sl00 a year, was put to his wits ends to get money enough to keep her deeontly clothed.
 From her fifth to her ninth birthday she grew only an inch or two. Be- tween her ninth and tenth birthdays she gained q foot; between her tenth and eleventh q foot and four inches She could pitch hay, cut grain, ptow, Siutl u iS pObdGOC0 It'll IAIeiil Oi tilO manor. Her hand was as large as three ordinary feminine hands and her arm was capable of terrible blow. With an open-handed cuff over the ear she once knocked young man who leased her scnseless to the ground.
 Her appetite became enormous. For breakfast she took several cups of coffee, seven or eight thick slices of black bread, almost a pint of honey. and half dozen pieces of the fruit in season. For dinner she often ate d pound and a half or two pounds of i pork. five or six potatoes. and other vegetables in corre5p 5pondingly large quantities.
 While her increasing appetite and size were playing ducks and drakes with the meager income of the Lyska family her father died. His widow was almost peaniless. Some one suggested that the young giantess might be turned i to financial account. A Vienna man. ager of freaks was brought to the manor to look at her. He agreed to pay Elizabeth salary which in a week would buy the Lyska family more blue cotton gowns and wooden shoes and black bread and honey than they could use up in d year Frau Lyska said All right Elizabeth was immedi- ately put on exhibition and within two weeks was famous throughout the tive German empires.
 Elizabeth is handsome. She has long, dark, brown wavy hair, large, dark eyes, clean-cut features. and white teeth. Her figure is shapely. though somewhat immature. She has very fetching smile, which has made her the object Of all sorts of attention from light-headed young men. Three students of law, an elderly man who pretended to be Freiherr, and any number of young tradesmen have 1 written her love-letters. Ten of her correspondents were willing to wait for her to .grow up," if she were not al ready willing olove them. Elizabeth, however, is too childish still to be even amused by this one-sided correspond- ence. She is contented to play with her dolls, and paper puzzles, and pict- ! ure-b books while not on exhibition for the benefit of the rest of the Lyska family. She is altogether happy and satisfied with ner new life on the stage Her appetite, strength and height are increasing slowly. She takes gymnas- tic exercises daily to develop her mus eles. Already she is able to perform easy feats of strength. In time her manager thinks she will be tho champion strong woman as we'll as the champion big woman of the world Chicago Times
 A SENSIBLE WEDDING.