Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-01-23

whisky lie was ready to direct the
search aftlr his curiosities. The lat
woman, v no was down on the bills
a, weighing 800 pounds, was found in
corniieli across the railroad tracks.
She IVES cut and bruised, but no bones
were broken. As she was brought III
re Snowman could har lily restI ain his
tears.
Look at her!" he said to me as he
threw up both hands. "Forty min
utes ago that woman weighed close
on 70 500 pounds and was tie jun
Danaiest fat woman III tie world.
:5h-'s lost over half her weigh, and
has aged ten YEARS. ], she ham, had
400 pounds bowed off her then Pm
no exhibitor Of living wrnder-w
A few minutes later Il party found
the living skeleton down in a gravel
pit behind the cotton factory. He
had escaped any serious injury and
was as cheerful as could be expected
of handful of hores under the cir.
Gums ances. While he WAS beng
brough, in under u mans arm he de.
clared that he was hungry for the first
time in twenty years, and when the
Snowman heard OF it his hands went
up again and lie cried out:
"l,'s just my consumed luck He'll
be hollerin' for pork and beans in
less'n an hour, and afore the week is
out he'll gain twenty pounds and
won't be living skeleton no more!
Gentle men, | haven't wept in over
forty years, but Hve got to weepnow!'
The Circassian gill had been run
down the road aud lifted oyer fence
into an orchard. l hal the dis,in
gushed honor Of escorting her back
She had lost her Gree ssisn wig aud
other articles II. c"ssary to become a
Circassian beauty, and she was mad
from head to foot. Size had never
been handled that way, and i. wasn't
in the contract.
"Great snakes, but look at her!
Jest look ut her!' walled the show
man as led her in. "Thitty min
utes ago she was the hossest Cir
cassian girl ever exhibited III this
country under canvass. She was
right from Circassia, where they sell
'en for $4,000 apiece, but what is she
now? Take her away before my
heart is broken!"
The boys found the boa constructor.
He was quarter Of a mile away in a
negro mans garden. He was dead.
He had been dead agreat many years,
though he was kept cooled up in n
lass case, aud there was sign read
ing, "do not agita,e the imp!acab!e
reptile who can crush an OK in two
minutes" They came dragging the
: stuffed skin behind them, and as the
Snowman saw the many rips and rents
and noticed that the head was miss.
ing, lis g,isf overcame him and lie
had to sit down ON a wagon wheel.
While some Of us were trying TO con
} sole him by figuring out how ht
, could cut tho boa constructor up and
make three or four anacondas of the
pieces, a colored man brought in the
mermaid-'the only genuine speci
men ever shown on the American
) continent She had been found II
cotton field. She seemed to hav.
been smiling at some joke the living
skeleton had gotten off on the fa
woman just rs the cyclone came intc
town, for there was a grin of pleasure
on the crevice supposed to represen
IN, mouth Gu, no 1i,I k.rnv tul
when the negro laid her down before
the Snowman in four chunks and three
pieces and one splinter, the poor mar
turned his face away and was undone
Nothing else could be found. w.
hunted ali that afternoon for the guy
as,icutus and the cunderango, bu
they probably escaped to the woods
To howl for gore as the dark
ness fell, and became living ter
rors until hunted down by deter
mined men. l off red to collect {
band and search the county for the
! ossifed man, whose bones had beer
turning to chalk for thu last % years
anl the sheriff said he'd raise posse
and go out and look for the wax fig
ura Of General Jackson licking the
British at New Orleans, but the
Snowman said it was no use. lie haC
been crushed to earth, and though he
had 400 pounds of fat woman and t
pretty fair living skeleton to start life
anew, he could not do tho Phoenix
act for shucks.