Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1892 — One of Nature’s Freaks. [ARTICLE]

One of Nature’s Freaks.

Ezekiel Ends, who died in Greene County, Now York, in the spring of 1885, was surely a fit subject for a dime museum, even though ho never descended to that level. Strictly speaking, Eads was in several respects a most remarkable creature. Ho was born without ears, not even having apertures whore his ears should have been. His deformity, sad us it wus, may he said lo have been; partially alloviated by the curious construction of tho inner portion of his head, which enabled him to hear common conversation through his mouth. When addressed he would instantly open his mouth and readily give uuswers to interrogations put to him in an ordinarytone of voice. But Ezekiel's lack *£ curs wus not his ouly lack of distinction. Ho had a heavy crop of black hair spotted with white, the spots themselves being in the exact shape of human ears, feet, hands, etc. When he was quite a Birtall baby it was noticed that his black hair was interspersed with oddly shaped spots of white, which, however, did no! take on thoir distinctive shapes tratil after he had passod his fifteenth year. When Mr. Eads died fie left one son, aged forty-five, whose hqir was as black as n coal, not a single gray hair being discernible, and another son, thirteen yours of age. whose hair was as gray as that of a man of seventy.—[St. Louis Republic. Bangkok (Bnrnvah) mi ls grim] oat 8,375 on* ofca g i rice daily.