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A Human Nose Two Feet In Length

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
January
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Elephantiasis is a peculiar forru of leprosy in which the liinb aud features swell to horrible proportions and out of all semblanco to the legs, arms and faces of human beings. Cases are known where the legs have become so swollen that they measnred A% feet iu circunaference. The ears of the same victim, Walter Brisbane, an Engish sailor, vrere 18 inches in length aud his nose elongated to upward of 2 feet when in the last stages of the horrible nialady. - St. Louis Republic. From 46 to 50 pounds equal a bushei of cornmeal in various states, the lower figure being the legal weight in Korth Carolina, the Jatter in Arkansas and others. From "Warsaw, the capital of ancient Poland, to our capital the diiitance is 4,010 miles.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News