Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1879 — A Boy Who Resembles a Frog. [ARTICLE]

A Boy Who Resembles a Frog.

Five miles southwest of Kenton, Tenn., on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, is the greatest monstrosity of the age—a human being who resembles a frog. He is the son of R. Newell, is twenty-six inches high, weighs fortyeight pounds, and was born iu Obion county, Tenn., ‘March 12, 1875. His body and arms are regularly formed and well developed, his fingers are short, and the manner in which they are set on his hands gives them the appearance of a frog’s feet; his legs are small, and are set at right angles with the regular line of walk; his fee' are small and badly formed; his face is eight or nine inches long, and makes an angle of 62 deg. with the base of skull—facial —angle; his head is almost conical; his eyes are small and without expression; his upper jaw projects far over the lower one; his lower jaw is small and has a superabundance of flesh attached, which renders him quite froggy. He can’t talk. If you throw' a nickel on the floor, he will light on it like a chicken on a June-bug. He can’t walk, but what is wanting in walking is made up in jumping. I saw him jump eight feet after a dime. If a tub of water is placed near him, he will jump into it like a duck. In rainy weather he goes to the door and leaps out, and remains out-doors until the rain is over. Obion counly has given birth to the following: The female dwarfs, the mud-negro, the sleeping beauty, and the frog-chil I. She is justly entitled to the appellation, “Mother of Monstrosities.”— Troy ( Tenn.) News.