San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-30
4 FEW NOTED DIV ARTS.
MIDGET MEN AND WOMEN WHO
HAVE PUZZLED SCIENTISTS.
Sudden Growth of One of the Little Fell
Iows-Remarkable Longevity of Those of
Short Stature-Lucia's Big Lover-The
Smallest Married Couple.

The English dwarf, Sir Godfrey Hudson,
was doubtless the most widely known Of any
human curiosity Of either ancient or modern
times Born of parents of normal size, in
Rutandshire, in 1919. at birth his height did
not exceed inches. He did not begin to
walk until after the end of his third year, his
height then being about foot At the end
If his seventh year he was taken into the
family of the Duke of Buckingham, having,
between the age of and Z, added but inches
to his stature At the age of 30 he was only
Is inches tall when equipped with his high
heeed shoes, then so fashionable.
From the age of 80 to 81 his growth was as
remarkable for its rapidity as it had pre-
viously been for its hardness. At 80 he was
but IS inches high, at 35 his height was
feet and 9 inches!
How or why this remarkable change was
brought about was too much for the distin
guished Society of Royal Surgeons, who time
and again discussed the phenomenon without
arriving at any satisfactory conclusions
Hudson lived to the ripe age of 63, about
three times the age attained by the average
giant
HOW NATURE EvENS UP.
Why giants as a rule, should all, or nearly
all, be of the male persuasion and Of very
short life, and why dwarfs should be of about
equal numbers of both sexes and Of long life,
is an anthropological enigma worthy of la
borious investigation
Joseph Bornwalski, by courtesy called
Count BornwalSlxi, was another of the old
time dwarfs of distinction. He was born in
November, 1879, near Chaliez, Polish Russia
He was one inch less in height than Hudson
at birth, and weighed but Is ounces. His
brothers and sisters-the entire family num-
bering six, including himself-were alter
uately dwarfs and people of normal size. The
eldest was brother, 3 feet inches in height;
then came another brother, 5 feet 10 inches;
next Joseph, the subject Of this sketch, who
was but feet inches on the day he attained
his majority; next came sister feet 4
inches; next another sister, who died at %,
being then but 2 feet inches in height, who
was in turn followed by sister of the regu-
lation size
Joseph married woman of fair proper
tons; removed to Banks Cottage, Durham,
England, where he lived to the advanced age
of 9S years, furnishing more striking evil
dence of the longevity accorded dwarfs by
plying nature as part payment for the
abridgment of stature suffered
There lives, or did, a short time since, near
Stonersville, Pa, girl by the name of
Vadilla Sheerer, who will be 10 years of ageif
she lives until Oct 81, 1882 She weighs 221
pounds At the age of z she weighed but
one-third as much as the average baby at
birth, tipping the beam at 23l pounds The
poor little thing is unable to walk or talk,
cannot even stand alone, and is perfectly
helpless
AN ATOM OF HUMANITY.
The most remarkable atom of humanity
that has ever attained his or her majority
bears the poetic name of Lucia Zarate and
halls from Mexico. She was born in the
country named Jan. 2, 1868. When on ezhi-
bition in this country in 1888 to 1885 she
weighed, according to the most reliable &c