Kirby, R. S. [Hrsg.]; Kirby, R. S. [Bearb.]: Kirby's Wonderful And Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine Of Remarkable Characters: Including All The Curiosities Of Nature And Art, From The Remotest Period To The Present Time, Drawn from every authentic Source. Illustrated With One Hundred And Twenty-Four Engravings. Chiefly Taken from Rare And Curious Prints Or Original Drawings. Six Volumes (Vol. VI.) (London: R.S. Kirby, 1820)

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Monday, February the third, 1806, a live bat was found
therein, of a greyish colour, where it had probably laid in a
torpid state, a solitary companion for the dead, more than
thirty-two years, the distance of time since the vault was
before opened. Bell's Messenger, Feb. 16, 1806.
ACCOUNT OF PERSONS
WHOSE HAIR SUDDENLY FELL OFF.
March 20, 1759, Mr. Haynes, a carpenter, in St John’s-
street, was seized with a giddiness. While his wife was
employed in rubbing the part affected, his hair came off
from his head and his eye-brows. The same accident hap-
pened some years before to Mr. Stanley, of St. Andrew’s,
Holborn. Annual Register, 1759, p- 58..
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A WONDERFUL POTATOE.
1759, February 17, Thomas Siddal, gardener, at Chester,
took up a potatoe, weighing seventeen pounds four ounces,
measuring, in circumference, thirty-eight inches, and, in
length, forty-seven inches and a half.
Annual Register, 1759, p» 72.
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MARRIOT,
THE GREAT EATER. ,
This extraordinary man was a lawyer of Gray’s Inn, who
piqued himself upon bis brutal qualifications of a voracious
appetite, and a powerful digestive faculty, and deserves to be
placed no higher in the scale of beings than a cormorant or
an ostrich. He increased his capacity for food by art and
application ; and had as much vanity in eating to excess, as
any monk ever had in starving himself. In the works of
Charles Cotton, Esq. there are two copies of verses upon