The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1870-10-06

IN t0pefsuon 'ikeiy to'produce q race OF
d4 4tfss;sdth u sstsl pigmies believed ID
By tGeI Greeks, tan1 such % those little
people whom travellers once asserted to
ID h.ingias IAhsssinja. Psychologists
b ivssskrived at;s few general eenolu-
sibns.t to e'peraobsie, little; above ORR ht-.
tle below thesmed,nn; height, but they
disbeheve in auysaeei excediugly'tau or.
kxeeeaiaely y'short: ALI the! :; examples
we'll authenticated are individual on
y y.;u2rsniL ii x.9Ict-e.:z::rr s%l'~--
Va 6nd plentiful notices. Of, people
leta shan four feet; high, Even At. and,
bel.x tortytioehessthe list is formidable..
Fahritiss speaks of.adwarf forty inches
hish.eo Thomas. Go,tes, who died about:
eighty yeats ago. 'wag Of this statur,
Jeani Coans the ! NoJo}ko dwarf. was
thirtJ,Sight'; iaehes. o7 Gaspard Bou-
toue apeatst,st auej,i thifty.siz: inches
high !; .na thisssxas also the height of
Jobhha alsBPh,1A 1l known o:.s :.s :"Crutehy
J.slb lb Nho, did f.t 4 Leeds about halt q
cspgit.ry{ 4. Pgo. and xhor Was the father Of
eight 6Ps qskil4d1rssn::;; as :;d There x.s little
man exhibited In London in the time of
George ths 1'oaF'tp, 1F'oogarF'Ftp, nIs whose thirty six
inches ot height we're clad "a military
attire, With top-boota !; .she - rstrntted his
tiny legs, and held his head aloft with
not les. Impotence than .the. ,proudest
general officer could assume upon his
promotion to tie rank 81 field MARSHALL
Lqngbefote this there was exhibited;
"eppos;tes" :" tho q at1 Charin,el,
oross; ktsls;s blaek k nsn, Il = ibe;ng being bnt
ttsee feet high, III, and thiriy;thresss va. ye.rs J.
ofsgs, t1 syery' 1G'
VIZ, xshioi 4 Il dist;nsajshed by ythe' name aill'
ofths :Bhak Prince; AID. with hin. hhis
vile, ,the, little woman not three feet:
high, and thirty years ot age,.. straight
.ad proPortionate a any woman q. IL the e
land. xhieh xliah, is @ commonly w. gal! called tho
Ftlsy Qaeen @ u .,:. i;.''@: "a /. ] a. M r " "
j. Be!ex '4sss t'et j height E. d*.ftf II
't.es - sHsesnH M = 81 ee ean 1 Anis M s makes IS
1n lE51 more 1! tamons w. e., Walpole y
dx.'f:t s,sE B tsa torty
.go, xas!t thirty. .hye inches: g high; ."A
brpsh;n.ket M 8! a',, = Of p EEdin'btargh 50 short
to q, ,bo,tnown: >, Is the Town Steeple, mar
ried Is 4 ;.sgiN ,gi ~ who .as little: shorter
than himself; they, averaged thirty -four
inehss eaeh; and ssresi generally known
Il being y broad ;as they we're: long,
Eighty yeais ago. There ] died Mrs: Kelly,
knoxn s!.e,!., y the Irish FAIRY: she va.
thirty. .fouF inches h}gh, and died ID
giving birth to~s child = But The best
sPeeusn Of humanity of -this ekitull
wa, pesh.ps, Madame :Ieresa, taevn al
tAA erAieHAn 'Hetsys 1he H,a H1 exheiihailteal &
in London some .ysan before the 1rist
6aasy s6hs ;vss aanlsgast !itls *croa
ture+ pretty, xom44ty' and yet fairy
Ike; les than 5s1d g = .heightbs3 =" 81,
~ n, am e I'd, if'heF portraits rare 1T
ka hasst tEsda IT. siRe e. g.: .:sr9 Hai;, q
Slosse taeks wessskhbtsd, atsthea Nj
tfe and Rummeefr af 'Chsaariinag! iiagao !cross,c cn'..
ittl.swiad:n.n, aged hxenty-seven, IN.
thirty ti,s H ,toppI iinvhss, hghH. Aud '"at.'l
esfta. house; in Gharing-4eroes,, "a; f.
mons PMde tor exhibitidns was Uhar,ns
cross Il thased.y.,) &. little man, man :6a;
yesrs old, tw6 fset nine. inches high
snd the: father Of eight children
when he y sleeps he puts his hea'
between lis feet, too' Fest % On BY y, way Of
pillow; apd his great toes in: each ear
mh,oh posture etl,iI he shows to the genera e era
,atisfsotion'of ak the, spectators" osTb
Leg. people bo..4t a f q s,e ,old' vopad il i;
disd'.bout,s,esotu. sago, q t The age4 q Il q
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