HUMAN CURIOUSITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2061, 6 August 1885, Page 2

HUMAN CURIOUSITIES.

A new phenomenon has lately appeared in Paris in the shape of a man with a head resembling that of a calf. The similarity is said to be wonderful. For his own Sake, it is to be hoped that this eccentric-looking person will prove as great a financial success as his three celebrated predecessors—the Man-frog, the man with a goose's head, and the Mandog, who have all retired into private life, having made a nica little fortune. The Man-frog was first exhibited in 1865, at a French country fete. He had a stout illshapen body, covered with a skin like a leather bottle, and a face exactly like a frog's, large eyes, an enormous mouth, and a skin cold and clammy. He attracted a good deal of attention from the Academy of Medicine, and a delegate was • deputed to make him an object of study. He -went all over France; and at the end of a few years, retired to his native place, Puyre in Gers. The mart with the goose's hoad was first shown at the Ginger-bread Fair in 1872, He was twenty years of age, had round eyes, a long and flat nose, the size and shape of a goose's bill, an immonsely long neck, and was without a single hair on his head, Ho only wanted feathors to make him complete, Tho effect of his interminably loiitj neck twisting about was extremely ludicrous, and was so much appreciated that his receipts were very largo. He now passeß under his proper name of Jean Rondier, and is established at Dijon as a photographer. He is married; and, thanks to enormously high collars and a wig, ia now tolerably presentable. The Man-dog came from Russia, and was for a long time exhibited in Paris, He is now settled at Pesth, having established a bird-fancier's business there, which is decidely flourishing.