Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1877 — The Hairy Child of a Hoosier. [ARTICLE]

The Hairy Child of a Hoosier.

Steuben (Ind.) Republican. We must say that the child,. Gracie Gilbert, the Little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Giles Gilbert, wbo residie sixteen l miles-east ©f Angola, in north-west township, Wflliams county, ©hi ©, is lire greatest living curiosity we have

everseen. The child is about eighteen months of age, finely formed, bright, sprightly and healthy, and almost entirely covered with hair. The hair on its head is some twelve or fifteen inches in length, and is very heavy. Its whiskers are three or font inches in length. On its oack, body, arms and legs is a thick, heavy, but fin*.-, silky growth of hair, covering almost its entire body, and moreover, no humbug. Barnum, with all his grand splurges and big blowing as to the curiosities and humbugs he exhibits, never has had a real, genuine actual ity. , a living curiosity, humunor otherwise, that surpassed this pretty little child, Grace Gilbert.