A CURIOUS MARRIAGE.

Western Star, 16 November 1909, Page 3

A CURIOUS MARRIAGE.

Some years ago a notable wedding party assembled in one of the most fashionable freak museums in New York. The bridegroom, was a tattooed Ail duo prince with beautiful Snowwhite hair and soft pink eyes. The bride was an armless maiden, and could boast of many remarkable pedal accomplishments. A gentleman who wore a ( card seven feet long, and was said to have inhabited a cave in the heart of U lster County before ho went into the museum lousiness, gave the oride a way , and a dwarf known as Princess Li-uh'finger hold up the ibrWa-1 train. Nearly every human curiosity of distinction was present, and as the groom placed the ring on (he third toe of the bride’s loft foot, a blind cornetist burst into the strains of die Add nr March, and the needy clergyman pronounced the' words that made the (wo one. The marriage has proved a happy i , n ,. in o’, cry ivspe.- t, and the couple, when not engaged in ‘their professioinal duties, occupy « neat while cottage a short distance from the city. They have four children, the eldest ohwh.mi has no arms and her father’s pinkeyes. The. second is tattooed front!Bdtt-i to foot—the only one ever born in captivitv—anldhas inherited her father's 'ong albino hair. The third , b a s beautiful arms, but they arc precisely the colour of her father’s eyes. The. fourth has proved a source of groat RorrOjw to his parents, and tears idl their .-yes as theylo 0 k upon their bright, .sturdy baby boy, who came, into the world without any inheritance in the way of niaUornvation, (,y (;010 11 rin**, that would enable him 1 to follow the family calling.