Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1895 — Sea Air vs. Living Skelctons. [ARTICLE]

Sea Air vs. Living Skelctons.

St. LoiUs Republic. . 1 Macdonal Gordon, of Healey, Aus- ( tralia, weighed but thirty-four pounds, although six feet in hight and. broad in proportion. Some Lindon speculators learned of the freak and- resolved to put the •‘blodtnih’ living skeleton"on exhibition at the British capital. They sent a man to the Antipodes to bring the skinny Mac at any reasonable figure," but wheri thdy arrived they were on the point of arresting the agent for fraud —the “living skele ton” weighed 141 pounds. The .sea air and change of food bad ruined the speculation.