A Remarkable Babe.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 166, 24 January 1888, Page 2

A Remarkable Babe.

\ .. v John Mansfield Mayvitle is the name of tho most remarkable Liy < f the year, lie is ten days old and weighs only one poind and a half. \\ lien lie was bom lie w, tghed uulv eiglit ounces. The skeleton perfectly khap-d and a more symmetrical child never was L>rn. The head is well funned and tin- skin over thet-ny Homan nose laps over the lens to a point almo-it as a knife blade. Where the frontal and parietal Lines join there is a marked proiuL-ranee. and although this is usually noticeable iu infanta, in this particular case it is part'cularly marked. The lower extremities hav. all their Lilies as perfect as in any child, hat there is only skin upui them. The eve of tin. infant is no larger than a p i ; every rib can Seen L- as pla.nly as though no cuticle covered it ut all; the lack of flesh i- n >'j on the legs ami arms, where the joints, being large, show out in contrast witii where the smaller and rounder bones are covered with a thick Inver of flash. The little boy is so frail and p inv thut it must L* bathed hi oil. ami this gives the scanty covering of hair up >n the scalp a glossy app-arauce. John Man-field, lievertheh ", is doing well ami lots a marvelous app-tite. Ho is the tenth child of lus parents aud lias several very big brothers.