Show EARLESS EZEKIEL EADS A freak of nature horn earless me ills hair was td ezekiel eads who died in greene e county N Y in the spring of was as surely a fit subject 41 for a dime museum even though he never descended descend od to that level bays the wheeling W va ret register strictly speaking eads was in several respects a most remarkable creature lie ile was nas born vit without hout ears cars not even having apertures aper tures where the ears should have been his deformity sad as it was wa may be said to have been partly alleviated by the curious construction st of the inner portion of his head which enabled him to hear common conversation through td Ii his mouth when addressed he would int instantly antly open his mouth ani and readily give answers to interrogations put to him in in an ordinary tone of voice but 1 ezekiels ze kiels lack of ears cars was not his only distinction he had a heavy crop of black hair spotted with white the spots themselves bein being 0 in exact shape of human ears cars feet hands etc when he was quite a small boy it was ras r noticed that his black hair was interspersed with nith oddly shaped spots of white which however did not take on their distinctive tive shapes until lie he hall had passed his lf fifteenth year when nr mr eads aads died he left one son aged forty five N whose hose hair was as black as coal not a single gray hair calr being ds dis nible and another another son thirteen years of age whose hair avab as gray U as 5 tuat of a man inan of seventy |