Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-22
MINIATURE MEN.
Some OF the Famous Midgets Who Have
Figured in the Worlds History
Remarkable Dwarfs
or Modern Times Sir GeSnfrey Hudson
and Count Joseph BoroWlaski-
Diminutive Prodigies.

full dwarf of modern times, says the 81.
Louis Post Dispatch, will cause Jenkins's
kettle to boil afresh. The apothecaries Of
midget lore are momentarily smitten with
higrsphic sketches of Tom Thumb, Bebe
Colobri and Coppsrnip, and ~curiously watch
ing the shadows they have cast on the walls
Of human history. Individuals Of the human
race, whose hight is much less than the
average Of their race, have always in fact
been regarded with more or less of public
curiosity. The singular profigacy OF nature
in the production OF these mastery eccen-
uicities, causes many 4 half-witted philoso-
pher to scratch HE dome Of thought, and
wonder what joke nature will perpetrste
| next. One OF the most singular facts attend
ing such phenomena is the fully developed
nervous system which almost always accom-
panies the general and uniform arrest OF
physical growth. The sncisnls believed not
only in dwarfs and midgeis OF romantic
minuteness, but in nations Of them. Aristotle,
The greatest nAtur slist of snciert times, de-
clared the undoubted existeDce OF a minute
race Of men with minute horses, which
lived IN caves washed by the waters OF the
Nile. Aristotie's statement would have much
weight in determining the controversy II The
philosopher at that time had not been IN
love. II il said that al the time he wrote
his treatise on dwarfs ke was lifting his
prayers 10 the altar of maiden affection, the
lAdy promising to listen 10 him II he you'd
grant her request. The terms beiog accept
ed, che Commanded him to 20 on su Tours,
and putting a bride in his mouth, mounted
on his back and rode him around the room.
A philosopher 10 such q prediczmeut Is
scarcely fit, philosophically speaking, to
write on dwsrfs, still Pliny corroborates the
dwarf statements OF Aristotle by giving an
accurate detailed account Of these Nilsi an
iiliputians and describing their exact geo.
graphical location. Philetas, q poet, con-
temporary with Hippocrates, was 80 diminu-
tive that he was obliged to ballast himself
with lead 10 avoid being blown away by the
wind. Probably one of the most remarkable
dsaris of modern times was
SIR eEoFFRET HUDSON,
with whom the readers Of Peserl of dc Peak
are already we'll acquainted. Up to the sge
of thirty bis hight was only eighteen inches.
From that age be shot up like a Republican
candidate until he reached the hight Of
three feet nine inches. He was said TO have
a head Of very large chronological dimen-
sions, and hands of unusual size. He died at
the age Of sixty-thIee.
COUNT JOSEPH BoRowLAsKI,
a dwarf Of such intellectual attainments that
be wrote a brilliant history OF his own life,
at t~wenty.nine years Of age vas only two
feet four inches in hight. He died at
Banks cottage, near Durham, at the great
age OF ninety-eight, an age without a paral-
lei in the history of dwsrfs.
Nicholas Ferry, nicknamed Bebe, at birth
measured eight inches and weighed less than
a pound. AT five years he weighed nine
pounds seven ounces and stood twenty-five
inches high.
The following are
CELEBRATED DwARFs OF REAL LIFE:
Andromeds, two feet four inches. One oil
Julia's free maids.
Aristratos, the poet. $50 small" says
Athenaeos, Shat no one could see him.
Bebe Il syD, two feet nine inches. The
drswf OF Stsnislaus, King of Poland (died
1904.
Matthew Buchinger, who had no arms OF
legs, but fns from the shoulders. He could
draw, write. thread needles and play the
hsutboy. Fac. SMILES of his writing are
preserved among the Harlzian manuscript
born 1874.
Chung a few years ago exhibited with
Chang. the giant.
Prince Colobri of s~chleswig, tweuty-fv.
{ inches, weight twenty-five pounds (lS51).
i Conopas, two feet four inches, one of III,
dwarfs OF Julia, niece OF August.
Coppernin, the dwarf of the Princess O
Wales, mother of George Ill. The las
court-dwarf in England.
Crachami (Caroline), a Sicilian born a
( Palermo, twenty inches. Her skeleton il
} preserved 10 Hunters museum. 1S14-l824.
Decker or Ducker John, two feet 81,
inches. An Englishman. (1610)
Farrell Owen, three feet nine inches
born at Cavan. He was of enormou
strength. (Died 1742.)
Ferry (Nicholss(, contemporary with Bar
L Ovlaaki Ha Uoa q NATIVE IF E.a,no u;-k,
at death, two feet nine inches. (Died 1877.
Gibson (Riehard) and his wife, Anuii
Shepherd. Neither of them four feer. Gibson
was a noted portrait-painter, and a page o
the back stairs in the court of Charles L. Tn,
King honored the wedding with his presence
and they had nine children. Qel5-169O.)
Design or chance makes others wife,
But nature did this match c%ontriye.
Waller Q642).
Hudson (Sir Geofrey), eighteen inches. H,
was born At Oakham, in Rutlandshire
(1~619-167S.)
Lucius, two feet, weight seventeen pounds
The dwarf of the Emperor Augustus.
Philetas, a poet, 30 small that she wor
leaden shoes TO prevent being blown ava,
by the wind" died B @. 280.)
Phillips Calvin, weighed less than tw,
pounds. His thighs were not thicker thai
a mans thumb. He was born at Bridgews
ter, Macs, 10 1871.
Richie David, three feet six inches
J Native OF Tweeddale.
Souvray (Theresa).
Stoberin &c. H., of Nuremburg, was les
than three eet at the age OF twenty. Hi
father, mother, brothers and sisters were al
under Il e medium hight.
Thumb CGeD. Toni. His real nsme wa
Charles s. Stratton; twenty five inches
weight, twenty-five pounds at the sge O
twenty-five. Born in Bridgeport, Conn.
in 1882; died, IS announced by telegraph
to the Post Dispatch, on last Sunday.
Thumb TOM, two feet four inches. A
Dutch dwarf.
Kit, the royal dwarf Of Edward vi.
Nicephoros Cslistus tells us of an Egyp
tan mot bigger than a partridge"
Dwarf of Lady Cierimond was named
Pacolet. He had a winged horse. Fifteenth
century
Dwarf THE Black, a fairy Of m~alignan
propensities, and considered the author o.
all the mischief of the neighborhood. Ir
Sir Walter Scott's novels this imp is intro
duced under various aliases, as SIR Eiwsrt
Mauiey, Elsbau, the ~recluse, cannie Elshie
and the wise Knight Of Micklt stsne Moor.
Dwarf Alberich, the guardian OF the Me
b~eluogsn.hoard. He is twice yan9uished BY
Siegfried, who gels posssssion Of his coat o.
Invisibility, and makes himself master OF the
hoNd.-The "Niebslungen Lied" (l2l0).
Dvsrf peter, an allegorical romance by
Lud wig Tieck. The dwarf is a castle spec
ter who advises and aids the family, but al
his advice turns out evil, and all his aid ii
productive of trouble.
OWNING (Henbaue), an apothecary-sii
W. Scott, Fair Maid Of Perth (time Henri
IV).
Among the recent living wonders in the
dwarf line are the "Wild Men of Bornee.'
These two dwarfs, now engaged BY p. I
Bsrnum, are fifty years old, and weigh col
l~ectively forty-ive pounds.