Arizona republican., 1894-11-15
MIRACLES OF GGLINESS.
Human Frights Assemble in Bel
 gium's Capital
Prizes Offered for the Most Hideous Spec linens of Facial Deformity - The Contestants Proud of Their
 RepuIsive Blemishes.


 The quintessence of human ugliness of the world is gathered here to show itself in the international competition for ugly men, says a recent Brussels letter in the New York Advertiser. Every country has sent its Calaban, while many barbaric nations are each represented by several Quasimodos. Prizes of five thousand, two thousand and one thousand dollars go to the three exhibits which the judges decide are the most hideous specimens in this collection of over four hundred and tifty-six frights. The judges have no easy task on their hands, because the candidates are all so preternaturally ugly that it will require the incest dis crimination to truthfully determine which three should be returned prize winners. Five of the foremost portrait painters in Belgium have been induced to serve as judges.
 Meanwhile the unsightly crew wan dered up and down the town, followed by throngs of curious citizens Each one seems uglier than the other, but they are all as proud as peacocks. They are of all sizes and shapes. Com pared with the least ill-looking one, the homeliest Chinese idol is thing of beauty. A squatty Burmese dwarf, scant three feet high and weighing nearly two hundred pounds, with a head little bigger than cocoanut, swivel eyes and a nose like tapir's snout. was for a time by the press awarded the palm for hideousness. But it wasn't long before host of others far uglier began pouring into Brussels.
 A Kaffir, whose ears had been cut off and his mouth slit from ear to ear, after the fashion of the "man who laughs" was viewed with curious favor until Jhiji Sglingl, from Madagascar, put in an appearance. He has but one eye, and it is double the natural size. His nose is of the bulbous type and his lips are so short that the long teeth are constantly exposed, giving his counte- nance the look of a wild beast, with a snarl stamped immovably upon his face.
 Then there is a brawny miner from Norway, whose frontispiece was fright fully misshapen by an explosion. The appearance of this Norwegian is more disgusting than horrible. Seen from behind, his magnificent figure and fine head, thatched with crisp yellow curls, lead most persons to guess that his face, too. must be handsome. But when they look upon his distorted phiz they are struck with horrCr.
 From Brazil comes Sam Bong, cor pulent negro, with swinish face, the porcine expression of which is sincreased by the protrusion of an ugly yellow tusl1 from either corner of his mouth. A Malay whose face has been clawed out cf shape by a tiger is another sight, as is a Laplander minus a nose and with hairless face as fiat as shingle.
 Turkestan is represented by four human horrors, brought hither by an enterprising snowman, who hopes to land at least one of the prizes The ugliest one of this lot is one Ethiopian of middle stature and slender build. but with a blubbery looking head fOrty-three inches in circumference and face like an ogre. Asiatic Russia l sends man whose countcnance is so thickly covered with warts that hardly bit of skin can be seen. Then there are hairy men, and men with no hair at all, fellows scanned with torture marks and scared with ire, creatures | livid from disease and every other