RUNNING TO SEED.
Tim giant Vv inklcmejcr, of Up pmAustria, the tallest nnm iu the worl I. who was more than 0 feet high, died «t liis home on August iMlh, lie was only 20 years ot age. He dimi among his own people, .niter his biiei career oi glory at the London music halls, Tin. cause of his death was UiberenusL. though it might perhaps bo mote graphically described as a general running to seed. Those who had the the misfortune to see him at the Children's Fete in Hyde Hark must have read his doom in his fare. His p’ume J Ty rolcHii hud lowered above eymy Going in the prospect, but the features beneath it were hideously wasted. Tho huge shambling body had no better prr.cijde of cohesion than a clothes horse. The logy seemed to bo protesting against tho weight of the trunk, and to bo puinfiilly divided against themselves as to their angles of junction iu tho nnp'*r and the lower portions. I’oor Winkelmeyer, in lact, was physic uly a hind at Jimnan weed, and ins solo distinction was in beitifc; a weed 9 f“ot. high.
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Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 3, 31 October 1887, Page 2
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191RUNNING TO SEED. Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 3, 31 October 1887, Page 2
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