The wonder book of freaks and animals in the Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth : 1898.

Date:
1898
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Credit: The wonder book of freaks and animals in the Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth : 1898. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Canada to help build the Grand Trunk Railwa)', and afterwards drifted to the States, and his mother was born opposite the Vauxhall Gardens in the days of the ten thousand extra lamps. MLLE. IVY, the Moss-Haired Girl, is a striking impersonation of the old proverb that a woman's glory is her hair. If, as Pope has said, Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair, Miss Ivy has innumerable traces hitched to the human race to draw them, for each separate fair brown hair in her abundantly supplied head stands out straight, or as straight as kinked and curled hairs can stand. Her hair is about twenty inches long, and is so matted and mossy that it cannot be induced to lie flat, as Copyright.'] THE MOSS-HAIRED GIRL Copyright.-] THE INDIA-RUBBER MAN. iRegistered. a well conducted head of hair should, but sur- rounds her like an abundant aureole. Ivy's baby- hood was not spent in the usual red-headed baldness of infancy, but she was born with an abundant supply of Nature's head covering, and the supply has since been constantly added to by growth. She is now about fifteen years old, and is a very bright and attractive young girl. JAMES MORRIS, the Man with the Elastic Skin, is a native of the State of New York, but a resident of Pittsburgh, Penn. He was born in 1859, and discovered the posses- sion of a peculiar cuticle when a boy of 17.