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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 56, 4 August 1885, Page 4

A new phenomenon hem lately appciivo'l m Paris m the shano of a man with a ho«id resembling that of a oalf. The similarity is 1 paid to ho wonderful. For his own sake, ife is to , lie hop«d that tlii.s eccontric-lookinsf person will prove as great a financial ■success as his thiee rerenb celebrated predecessors — The Man-frog, the man with h goose's head, and the Man-dojj, who have all retired in f o private life, having made a nice liltlft foritineThe Man-frojj was first exhibited m 18G5, at a French conn try fele. He h:\dastontillsh.ippn body, covered with skin like a.leather imttle, and a face exactly like a tro«'* lar^o eyes, enornions mouth, and the skin cold urivl cla,mmy. He attrac'el a good deal of attention from the Academy of Mediciuc, and a delegate was depnlod to make him an object of study. He went all over Franco ; and at thn end of a few years, retired to his native place, Pnytv m Gers. The niiin with the goose's he \<\ \vnsfir<t shown at ihe Ginger -bread F.iiv m 1872 He was twenty ye^.s of ac;f>, had round eves, a long and fl it nose the shape and size of a goose's bill, an immensely long neck, and was without a single hair on hU leid. He only wanted foal h era to mike him complete. The effect of his iater— tninably long neck twisting: about was pxtiftinely ludi-:rous, and was po much apnieciated that his receipts were very lar^e. He now passes under hia proper name Jp an Rondier, and is established at Dijon as a photographer. He is married ; and, thanks to enormously high colears and a wig, is now tolerably presentable" The Man-dog came from Russia, and wn's for a long time exhibited m Paris. He is now Settled at Pesth, having established a bitvl-fancier's hnsiness there, which is decidedly flourishing.