The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-27
SOME ODD ELoPEMENTs.

A freak known as Princess Anetta, pos sessing neither arms nor legs, until lately on exhibition in Geneva. has just eloped with a young German named Starker whom she first met while on show in the Swiss town, says London Tit-Bts. Love did not at first run smoothly with the couple by reason of the uncompromlsing attitude of the lady's impresario, against whom the resourceful lover lodged a com plaint of ill treatment An arrest follow ed and the young man, seizing his oppor where the ceremony, during which the limbess bride was held in the bride grooms arms, was duly performed.
 A few years ago a living skeleton who was on view in the Prater at Vienna, was found missing. The proprietor of the show, furious al his loss, at once set about tracking the vanished freak who cer- tainly, by reason of his bodily weakness, could not of his own unaided efforts have proceeded far After two hours quest he came up with the skeleton being wheeled along in a barrow by a stout country woman who for the consideration of a few fiorins treacherously surrendered her emaciated lover
 The Belgian capital was the scene of a frustrated elopment when colossus named Servan managed to start on his flight with the daughter of a Brussels doctor, but ere the station was reached the springs of the fiacre gave way be- meath his excessive aeoirdupois. and he and his fiancee subsded into the road, greatly to the delight of the onlookers. whose merrment was in no wise lessened by the arrival of the would-be brides father, who without more ado proceeded to belabor the prostrate carcass of the fat lover. Then. his strength and anger being exhausted, he led his daughter home.
 Another man mountain, in the person of Herr Gartner, whose forty-fve stone kept his employer in easy circumstances, evoked the love of well to do widow, who resolved to make him her second mate. Everything went well; the ab- sence of his employer was for a brief spell assured. and with much puffing and blowing Herr Gartner tottered to the car riage that was waiting to bear him away to freedom and wedlock Alas! His fiancee had not taken his size into caleu- lation; he could by no means pass through the carriage door. His and her utmost efforts were In vain. and at last, utterly exhausted he staggered back to the house. whence he never again emerged.
 Marriage, however, resulted from the elopement of German dwarf named Weber, who was mannikin in the show line. with the daughter of rich Berlin tradesman, who naturally viewed with high disfavor his daughters predilection for the undersized freak. A strict watch was kept on her movements, but all vigil lance was rendered futile by the cunning of the pygmy, who, discuised as badly, was wheeled in a perambulator to an ap- pointed tryst, there he was hande dover to his bride, who taking him in her arms, carried him off to the church and wedlock almost under the eyes of her relatives.
 The widow W a substantial Warsaw | tradesman fell In love with a living skele- ton on exhibition at a booth. and in- duced him to visit her at her house. Here l she declared her passion. and upon it's meeting with but cold response she seized the wretched freak and, having gagged him, placed him in large box, procured to meet the emergency, enclosed wherein she had been rapidly driven to villo | owned by her in tho suburbs, and there kept him prisoner until he agreed to her proposal.