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Show 18 FREAK OF NATURE. Man In England a Peculiar Case Arretted Development. There Is a youni: n.nn In lL-Iand who at tho Bite of 24 In developing at the rate of only one-tltli of that of the average human belnc. At present ho Is learning his alphabet and can count tip to ten only. During the lal nineteen years ho has eaten but three meali a week, has slept twenty four hours ard played twenty-four hours, without tho sllijitost variation. In spito of Ms twenty four years he looks no older than a hoy of four or five and Is only thirty six inches In helrht. For tho mine period hli development de-velopment physically and mentally has been at only ono-sWth tho ordinary ordi-nary rate, wl.llo absolutely reguiar and perfect In every other way. At his birth this child weighed ten pounds and In no way differed frm any other child. Ho grew and Ihrhed In the usual way until ho atlali.od tha age of five. Then bla progress waa suddenly and mysteriously arrested, ar-rested, and since then six yeara have been the himo to him aa one year to the normal person. Ho hsa attracted the attention of many medical and acl-entitle acl-entitle men, morn than one of whom baa expreiied the conviction that this remarkable man will live to bo no less than throe centuries old. New York Herald. |