Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-25
3 LIVING HUMAN cUR1os1T1Es.

Some Conspicuous Members of the
 Enormous Gallery of Wonders.
 Among the well-nigh innumerable features of the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth are to be seen wonderful collection of physical phenomena, representing the most fan ciful creations of Nature when in her most whimsical mood. That is par ticularly true concerning the many specimens of strange forms of human life that will be found as one of the exhibits in the vast menagerie tents of the exhibition. They will embrace giants and pigmies, prodigies, abnor- malities, men and women with an un- usual number of limbs and some with out limbs at. all. but not one of them will be of repulsive character or of fensive to the most delicate lady or child.
 Among the most extraordinary speci- mems of these strangest and most curious of creatures will be found Master Hermann. In ordinary appear ance he is large. well-built closely knitted man. handsome in both fea- lures and form, but when he begins his wonderful expansions, contractions n6 DGCOn0S ii CudFdCUSI almost incredible and intangible. He can at will displace his heart from the left side to the right side. and, like the famous bloater fish, can expand his chest nearly two feet beyond it's nor mai measurement. Again he will change the entire formation of his torso. He seems to possess the ability to force his lungs down into his abdo- 1Araxv v9I0rr hS 1eIor, 4rad the shoulders as a woman is about the waist. Reversing this order of things, he will crowd his abdomen up beneath his ribs until his waist may be spanned by two ordinary hands. He is, beyond all question, the greatest normal ana tomical curiosity with which the phy- sicians of the world ever have been as founded. His ability and control of the various parts of his body are past belief and have never been duplicated by any other individual in history He will appeal peculiarly to the physicians of this community when he is seen, a man of extraordinary intelligence, and although2a Hungarian. speaks English perfectly and without an accent. He has been a student of medicine and physiology and will be glad to meet any and all physicians who care ito investi- gate his phenomenal physical powers and qualities.
 Yet another astounding anatomical curiosity is William Doss, the human telescope. Standing in his normal condition some six feet i'll height. he can without moving his feet or chang ing position, elevate his head and shoulders some IS inches higher. Like wise he has the ability to extend each of his outstretched arms eight inches, or total of Is inches beyond their natural measurements from tip to tip of the fingers. How and where he gets this remarkable power of expan- sion is one of the most puzzling phe- nomena with which the physicians of the world have ever yet come in con- tact
 Yet another and to most people the most interesting human curiosity ever exhibited are the famous Korean twins" They are two boys who look so much alike that they cannot be told apart. They are about 14 years of age. The nearest counterpart of these boys known to history were the world fla nous Siamese twins, but these boys are still greater curiosity. They are united in the same manner by which the Siamese twins were bound togeth- CT, that is, by cartilaginous band about the thickness of the wrist of an ordinary man. This band united the Siamese twins side by side. With the Korean twins the band is located upon the left breast of one and the right breast of the other. It is so elastic that either one is able to stand upon the right or left side of the other They are bright, intelligent, vivacious and extremely good looking boys of the Malay type. They are very playful as all other boys of their own age and seem unusually happy when given the opportunity to meet children of like age and talk with them. They, too, will afford subject of profound study for physicians.
 This list of prodigious abnormities might be continued to the extent of column and the subject not be exhaust cd of this wonderful collection and sovereigns of the kingdom of freakland but enough is herein indicated to show that they will supply an extraordi- narily interesting feature of the Great est Show on Earth, the day of which exhibition here is Tuesday, June 30.