Miscellany: Caged
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Numerous befreckled urchins sorrowed for a moment last week, at news that Zip, the "What-is-it-Man," widely popular in sideshows, lay ill of pneumonia at Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan.
To mature persons Zip has always been lacking in appeal. His sharply domed cranium, monkey-fur suit, and ingrowing personality, seem all too slight an excuse for the sizable cheques which he has drawn for many years from the Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers circus.
For a certain class not easy to define Zip possesses, however, a strong appeal. Recently one of his admirers, a swaggering white tusked rough, burly and begrimed, cried out: "Zip's a gentleman! Lots of freaks spits in most people's faces that they don't like, but Zip hardly ever does!"
*Some despatches reported seven.
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