A REMARKABLE CHILD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6829, 6 October 1883, Page 2 (Supplement)

A REMARKABLE CHILD.

Br the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar EI ea living four -miles south-eaßt of Mexior. W g (Mexico Intelligencer) visited and ex? lt ained their little son, John Rodney, justter j months old, which has the misfortune to be ' Ola j n fc 0 the world without arms or limbs. £4 j B on e 0 f the most remarkable cases on rec Q n yje left side the shoulder-joint - ' t jj e arm for two inches and a half in le j, gt - a i 3 perfect, the arm terminating in abou' . shape of an ordinary hen's ezg at the _ - end> The right arm, as perfect as o th er) j 8 about three inches and a half ' terminating as the other in shape, /at unlike the other has a well defined /vough small, with apparently a half or thre - /-/quarters of an inch of the I arm, t'ie left one & e i n g the longest, the final bone being abou' ■ inches in length ; the right arm is abe an jjjgjj shorter, both terminating boid more abruptly than the arms, X.'e the aTms, having a small teatshaped pr Section about the size of a large raspberry j n every other respect the child is perfect.,, about the ordinary flesh of a child 'jfxta age. A3 if to compensate for the unfo /fanate absence of arms and limbs, nature has. 'blessed the little fellow with an excepts .Anally tine head, and seemingly, an unusm*l T .y active brain. He is as bright and cheerfulas a little bird, but has the misfortune of cutting his teeth during the heated term, which iB annoying him greatly. The little fellow seems to possess a strong will and a dis- | position to be quite independent and even at this early age learned to wait on himself, thus furnishing a good example to older persons, and more capable of helping themselves than he. He goes for whatever he wants,<in any part of the room, by rolling himself like a bottle, changing his course as he pleases by the uje of his head, giving whatever direction he chooses to the conrse of his body.