The Red Cloud chief., 1878-01-10
Tall and Short Men.

Al n Of the public halls in this elf,
are now on exhibition a couple of IN.
tallest human beings in the civilized
world. Al another public hall not IA,
from The aforementioned one. are two
remarkably little human beings. who
are believed To he the smallest couple
ever exhibited in any country. Martin
a Buren, Bates. who was born in Ken.
lucky, Is thirty-two wears of age. weighs
JVo pounds. and is eight feet one inch
I'D height. His wife was born in Nova
Scotia. Is twenty-eight wear of ace.
weighs 4l3 pounds, and is eight feet
two inches i'm height. When but six
years Of age she was just a. tall a. her
mother. who was five feet high. Her
father was only five feet four inches in
height This loving couple may he said
TO represent linked sweetness. long
draWn out. Gen. Mite is turned thir-
teen years Of age, weighs but nine
pounds. and is only twenty-five inches
IN height. His hands are smaller than
those of any known living baby. Mis-.
Minnie Obom. who stands beside him
on the platform. Is in her thirteenth
year, and Is but twcnty-three inches in
height. Either Of these infiniiesimal
members Of the human race j. suppos-
ed by most persons who have g them
10 be the smallest human beings living.
lhis, however. is not true. if We NAV
believe the Toxic (Japan) Times Of
October -. which says that a dwarf.
sand to be fifty-One years old, and only
one DOT three inches high, named Sato
lukIchi, il about to be exhibited i'm
that city. This is a depth of diminu-
tiyeness truly wonderful. 1t would
hardly be surprising To read the
announcement of a giant one and one
fourth years old and fifty-one feet high.
The irregularity of proportion for
which Mr.. Yukichi is conspicuous is
not less remarkable than his condensed
compactness. His head is seven inches
and a-half long. while all the rest Of his
body measures only seven inches.
The height of men, according to Vii
lerme, varies from 4 feet 81 inches To )
feet 10 inches. and thus gives an aver
age of > feet 81 inches. Taking the ex-
tremes of individuals known. being IL
inches for a dwarf spoken Of by Burch
and Button. and 9 feet 3 inches for a
Finlander mentioned by Sapplv, the
medium would Toe ) feet 1 inches. But
those eases may he regarded as quite
abnormal. The ESguimaux We're long
considered the smallest race of men on
the face of the globe. Harm de Paw has
asserted that the men do not exceed 4
feet J inches, and the women 4 feet =
inches. Subsequent investigation by
Drs. Bellebon and Guerault has. how
ever. proved that those figures are too
low. that the average of the lowest
tribe il > feet y inches, and that some
others attain TO five feet ct inches. The
smallest family Of known men is the
Boschmans of South Africa, whose med
ium height is given as 4 feet Z inches.
Some other tribes of that continent RI
val them but are not quite so short.
Henry NJ. Stanly, the explorer. men,
tions in one of his letters having come
across a race of dwarfs of most minute
stature. but the details have moi reached
us. As for the tallest races. they are
N~orwegians in Europe. the Kaffir in
South Africa, some of our North Amer
lean Indians, the Polynesians, and fin
ally the. the Pataonians, whose aver
age height is given by numerous tray
elers worthy of credit. at 5 feet 10 inch
es. Taking these last as the highest,
and the Boschmans as the lowest. We
obtain an average of ) q inches. But
the savants who have studied this sub
ject, considering the small proportion
of very short races, have decided on
fixing the medium heiiiht of the human
race at ) feet - inches. The average
of the four persons now on exhibition
in this city is precisely ) feet.-New