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Show Death of the Boy with the M ouster Head.--Matthew Dorn, tho monster-headed boy, is dead. He was 15 years of age, and was certainly a curiosity, so far as his cranium was concerned. It is said that his head was nearly four feat in circumference and weighed quite oiyhtv pounc.s. 110 was of Irish parentage. When G weeks old his head bigau growing I much moro rapidly than his body and continued to grow within a few weeks of his death, which occurred early tins week. He was never able to sit up, but could move his head from right to lelt while lying on his pi low. During thn Centennial ex-hibition ex-hibition at Philadelphia he was taken there by speculative persons, btu tho undertaking did not prove succcesrul there or m Albany, vhere he was subsequently exhibited for a lew days H.s body ut tho time of hia death , weighed about nnc-hall as much us Ins head.-Troy (N. Y.) Times. |