Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-15
A FEW NOTED DIV ARTS.
MIDGET MEN AND WOMEN WHO
 HAVE PUZZLED SCIENTISTS.

Sudden Growth of One of the Little Eel lows-RemarknbIe Longevity of Those of Short Stature Lucia's Big Love-The
 Smallest Married Couple.
 The English dwarf, Sir Godfrey Hudson, I was doubtless the most widely known of any human curiosity of either ancient or modern | times. Born of parents of normal size, in Rutlandshire, 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 of his seventh year he was taken into the family of the Duke of Buckingham, having, between the age of 8 and 2, added but inches to bis stature At the age of 30 he was only IS inches tall when equipped with his high heeled shoes, then so fashionable. From the age of 30 to 35 his growth was as remarkable for its rapidity as it had pre- viously been for its tardiness. At 30 he was but Is inches high; at 35 his height was 8 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
 
 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 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 Bornwalsi1i, by courtesy called Count Bornwalski, was another of the old time dwarfs Of distinction. He was born in November, I739, near Chaliez, Polish Russia. He was one inch less in height than Hudson at birth, and weighed but 15 ounces His brothers and sisters--the entire family num- bering six, including himself-were alter nately dwaris and people of normal size The eldest was brother, feet inches in height; then came another brother, 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 5 feet inches; next another sister, who died at %, being then but 9 feet inches in height, who was ill turn followed by Q sister of the regu- lation size.
 Joseph married a woman of fair propor- tions; removed to Banks Cottage, Durham. England, where he lived to the advanced age of 9s years furnishing 8 moro striking evi- donce of the longevity accorded dwarfs by pitying nature as part payment for the abridgnent of stature suffered.
 There lives, or did, short time since, near Stonersville, Pa, girl by the narne of Vadilla Sheerer, who will be l9 years of ageif she lives until Oct. S1, 1889. She weighs 2ek pounds. At tho ago of 2 she weighed but one-third as much as the average baby at birth, tipping the beam at 2s4 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. 3, 1863. When on exhi- bltlon in this country i'll 1883 to 1885 she weighed according to the most reliable ac- counts. about nine pounds; generally adver- tised as weighing but four pounds and nine ounces Lucia, like most Mexican girls of good family, was betrothed when still in her cradle. As her affianced grew to be strap ping fellow of l50 pounds Lucia's parents watched over their midget offspring, reluct- antly admitting to each other that the un. equal match must sooner or later be de clared off, and, although the two have long since given up all hopes of ever being joined by the hymeneal ties, each holds the other in loving remembrance When on exhibition in a1,>hS xl. lace or her Mexican lover ill the throng which daily crowded around her. The very sight of his face, or the face of one she mis- took for him, caused her days of sorrow. Her time of the stage for two weeks after tho little episode was spent in bemoaning her fate and praying to be allowed the stature 1 and avoirdupois of other girls of her age After her tour of the principal American cities, Lucia returned to her Mexican home. where she is, no doubt, still enjoying her life on as grand a scale as her abbreviated proportions will admit.
 It has remained for Germany to outdo all other countries in producing the smallest married couple in the person of a miniature and marchioness, who made bridal tour of Continental Europe during the year 1SSO
 The marquis was born at Kiel, the capital city of the province of Schleswig- -Holstein, in the year 1850; soon adopted the title of Mar quis of kiel, by which he has ever since been known, and which, as with the name of our own Tom Thumb, was first applied as nick name. The marchioness was born at Neu- also a German city, in 1858, and is consequently eight years the junior of her midget husband. At the time of their mar riage their combined height was eight inches shorter than five feet, and their combined weight but thirty-two pounds, the groom nineteen and the bride but thirteen pounds At the time of his marriage the weighed almost four pounds less than the Bates baby did at birth; the bride weighed but little moro than half as much as the same child.-St. Louis Republic.
 An Army In Miniature
 gentleman by. the name of Lawrence, living at West Salem, Ills, has produced a piece of mechanism It repre- sents an army and consists of 400 pieces. |, Horses, men, cannon, cavalry, artillery, in- fantry, and band of fifty-two men each |