| Show TWO one za la over tour fouz time aa large 84 a the other the smallest skeletons of h humanity uni anity ever preserved ved are ead kept in the museum atthe royal college of surgeons in Lincol ns inu ino fields london says the st louis post dispatch one is eight feet four inches in height the other is less than two feet charles byrne the famous irish giant who was more generally known as died in 1783 1763 when he was 22 years old his capac capacity iky for liquor was in keeping with his high phascal phy proportions so keen was his anguish over losing all his wit tow a note that he drank a cask of ale in one day the day following he was dead bryne had a great dread of becoming a dissecting room subject he made hadaa a bargain with a fish fisherman ermark before hedded he died to take his body out into the channel and throw it overboard hunter the eug english lish surgeon learned of this arrangement and by P paying the fishermen he prevailed upon the them m I 1 to carry out their bargain to the letter lette r but to attach a rope to the lody body and drag it up again after it had bad been immersed the fishermen served two masters and 11 hunter gottheb got the body ody the tiny skeleton is that of caroline Cra chami the sicilian dwarf who was exhibited in europe in the early part of the century the child did not grow after birth and before she reached her died ifer her said to a brit ish surgeon by her parents i qt bands one of tl t t hemore nhen N hen he died the i kelston of the dwarf can be slipped into it as easily as a pipe stem |
