The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-09-23
A Girl Twice as Small as Tom
Thumb.

A large number of physicians went to
Tony Pastors Theatre, recently, to see
the Mexican dwarf, Lucia Zarate. They
measured her and ascertained her hight
to be twenty one inches her feet three
inches long, her legs below the knees
four inches in circumference, and her
hands an inch and quarter broad. Her
mother, who is robust, and Of medium
size, says that Lucia is twelve years old.
Her face is older than that. Her fea-
lures are Spanish and her complexion
dark. Her activity is incessant. She
played pranks with the physicians and
talked fast in Spanish. She stepped
into high silk hat, crouched down,
and was out of sight excepting her
head. She squeezed one of her pliable
little hands through rather large fin.
ger ring. The hand of an adult made
ample seat for her. Standing on chair
and holding to the back of it, her fin
gers struck the spaces in the canework
holes that just admitted the passage
of small penholder. She was not
weighed, but her weight is said to be
five pounds; and. poised in the hand,
she does not seem heavier. Her cloth
tended for a doll. the shoes and stock
ings especially being toylike.
Tom Thumb has grown appreciably
since he was exhibited by Barnum, but
when he first astonished the public he
was twice as large as Lucia, and he was
then about her present age. She has
not grown any, her mother says, since
she was year old.--New York SIN.
SUNsTRoKE.-The Americum Journal
of Medical Science has the following in
regard to sunstroke:
1t is not really u sudden stroke.
There are preliminary symptoms that,
if they are needed, would enable one
to avoid the attack. The temperature
rises and the individual prespires, be-
comes thirsty and feels very much ex-
hausted. These symptoms increase I'M
til the temperature OF the body reaches
Ill degrees Fahrenheit. the skin be-
comes dry, the sufferer feels a terrible
oppression, undergoes violent palpita-
ton, and experiences an overburtlening
sense of coming death. This condition
of sunstroke, fatiguing, utterly pros
trating as it is, may be entirely recov-
cred from, but in the higher stages the
brain is thought to DO the seat of le-
sions that may have permanent effect on
its functions. These are supposed to be
inflammatory, and to leave the sufferer
liable to mental diseases afterward. It
is consequently the duty of whoever
feels the premonitions to succumb at
once, rather than fight the fatigue and
depression until it ends in permanent
injury. All persons working in the
open air will do we'll to remember this"
The very great importance OF all the
news sent by cable from Europe to the
press of this country is something very
remarkable. A dispatch from the far
East assures us that :" the Russian am.
bulence sonitary corps is passing
through Roumania. A painful appre-
hension prevails throughout this coun-
try that the corps might be induced to
take some other route. --Lumisrille Cour-
ies-.J0urmal.
A NEW clothier in Danbury, Connecti-
cut, brother-in.law Of the News man,
has excited public curiosity by having
large apple painted on his sign. When
asked for an explanation, he quietly in
quired: If it hadn't been for an ap.
pie, where would the ready-made cloth
ing stores be to-day?"
An Indiana saloonkeeper made bad
mistake when he advertised, "Unap-