Omaha daily bee., 1884-03-10
'DWAIsFS.
Some Information About Their Pc
culiaritics.
Cleveland Herald.

Il t"NO pSShh oha 80 NfS go
for a woman no bigger than | am, said
the Che Nah, the Chinese dwarf at the
museum last evening, land if ! could
only find her and then marry her l would
be happy" Che Nah is about the small
est man of his age living. He is as years
old and only 2 feet 4 inches high; but Che
Nah is rich, with a regular income of
5000 a week, and is anxious for a wife
with whom he can keep company during
his long hours on exhibition. Che Nah
is a particular friend of Chang, the Chi
nese giant, who is 8 feet tall, but who
admires Che Nah, not 80 much for size
as for his nationality.
Che Nah has written a little book
about dwarfs, himself in particular, in
which he tells of the high social position
OF his family and explains the cause of
his popularity of form. His mother,
while walking through the streets of
Ningpo was greatly shocked and fright
ened by seeing a very small child crushed
to death by the falling of a tree. She
was greatly affected and when Che Nah
was born, shortly a%fterward, he bore al
most q striking resemblance in face and
figure to the little one that was killed,
The child killed was but 9 years old and
Che Nah has never grown larger than IL
child of that age, and exclaiming, as she
seized him, that her little one had re-
turned to life. The circumstance attract
ed widespread attention and led a toa jul
dicial investigation, wherein all the pc
cnliar facts were brought out.
"The most attractive little woman as a
curiosity" said MIR. Elliott of the
Museum, "who was ever exhibited, is
Lucy Xarate. She is the smallest of
them all, being 81 inches and weighing 10
pounds. She can command a salary OF
$3.50 a week and is quite wealthy"
Mrs. General Thumb is probably the
most intelligent dwarf living. But the
only real live doll baby is Hop % My
Thumb, the little Nova Scotia midget,
who weighs scarcely more than 10
pounds. Mart::a's Vineyard has recent
ly sent out two little people, the Adams
sisters, who are each scarcely three feet
tall, and who are valuable AS curiosities
because of their intelligence.
"The trouble with little people, or
mideets," said Mr.. Elliott, sis that but
few of them are intelligent, and many of
them almost brainless. Alarge number
of the children midgets on exhibition
about the country are repulsive monstros'
tiles. But when a diminutlve specimen
of humanity is discovered who has "a well
developed intellect, he is indeed a rarity.
Tom Thumb found himself a large man
when compared with other mites during
recent years. But he was one of the first
ever exhibited, and his prestige gave him
a lasting fame. There will never be an
other Tom Thumb. People have become
80 accustomed to curiosities, and have
seen so many little people, that mites,
midgets or dwarfs have ceased to create
the great sensations they formerly did,
"There was the little fellow, said Che
Nah, ''who, many generations ago, fought
a battle with an Irish game-cock and was
rescued, from his p%erilous plight by one
of the noble ladies of the court, who
CHANGED to discover him just in time tc
save his life. Then there wa, the spright.
ly young fellow, Sir Godfrey Hudson,
who first bowed before royalty breaking
through the crust of a pie, from which he
rose and addressed Charles |, who was &c
well pleased with his speech and action
that he knighted the little man on the
spot. 1t was this dwarf who afterwards
fought a duel with Colonel Crofts, whom
the latter MORALLY wounded. Elizabeth
OF Russia collected all the dwarfs she
could find, built a palace of ice on the
Neva and compelled two of the little
. ones to DO married therein. All who took
part in the ceremony were less than 81
inches high and the spectacle was OH
joyed by a vast assemblage of mobiles
Unfortunately tho bride and groom slepI
10 the ice palace, caught cold and died