Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-08-09

inches high. something less than the
stature of our own most celebrated
dwarf, General Tom Thumb. The first
English dwarf Of whom there is anthem
tic record was only IL feet high till IL
years OF age, though he afterward at
tanned the height OF 3 feet 9 inches.
This was Jeffery Hudson, who was pre-
sented to Queen Henrietta by the Ouch
ess of Buckingham. Hudson on that
occasion surprised the company by step
ping out of a pie He is said to have
fought two duels, one with turkey
cock and one with Mr.. Crofts, whom
he shot and killed. Hudson died in his
sixty-third year in the Gate House
prison, having been accused as con-
spirator in the Polish Plot.
Nine. Teresia, known as the Corsi-
can Fairy. was "a inches high and
weighed only thirty-six pounds. She
lived to a good old age, though the exact
period is unknown.
When growth is attained the skele-
ton, having reached its proportions,
anv adverse influence affecting the lynn
phatic system or nutritive supply in any
wav tends to produce leanness. A
well-developed man, having drunk lye
by accident, after prolonged illness
and recovery found himself living
skeleton. A dissection OF this man
after death disclosed the fact that the
thorocic duct had been nearly closed
up. The earliest recorded example OF
this class was Claude Ambrose Seurat.
born at Troyes, France, April 10, 1857,
According to the account, at his birth
there was nothing in his appearance
that indicated disease, but In proper
ton as he grew in size his flesh grad
ually wasted away.
On the other hand, any influence
which stimulates the nutritive mechan-
ism unduly degrades the secretive and
assimilate functions and tends to pro-
duce abnormal fat. The living skeleton,
with his limited capacity for food and
assured income as freak, enjoys some
degree of happiness, but the fat person
deserves commiseration. The statistics
of this class are quite extensive.
Mr.. Bright, an English grocer OF
Maiden, weighed trifle OF GIG pounds,
and an Irishman, Roger Bryne, who
died in 1904, was "several stones heavier
than the celebrated Mr.. Bright" Mr..
Spooner, of Tamworth, though OF me-
dunn height, weighed $50 pounds. His
coat was something immense.
''Too broad to be conceived by any mar
row mind"
The traveller in London something
less than century ago might have
noticed the following poster;
'ft~, Mr. Daniel Lambert, Of Leicester,
zoe Heaviest Man that ever Lived!
Weighs upward Of Fifty Stone!
Mr.. Lambert will see company at his
house, number 80 Piccadilly. next Albany,
nearly opposite ST. James Church, from
eleven to five o'clock. Tickets Of admis-
sion, One Shilling Each.
Mr.. Lambert had been keeper OF the
old county Bridewell at Leicester and,
despite of his physical immensely, was
a very intelligent and active person. A
Kentish innkeeper named Palmer,
weighing only $50 pounds, visited Mr..
Lambert, and appears to have been
deeply mortified at his own inferiority,
for, on returning home, he was suddenly
taken i'll and died. Mr.. Lambert
weighed 739 pounds just before his
death.
Though rules for the reduction of fat
are more easily given than followed, we
are assured by once "heavy" man,
who tried the experiment successfully
for twenty-four days, that absolute alb
stinence from food will cure 1t, and to
those who possess sufficient determine
tion IN folInw his axampla this rule is
therefore commended.