Connecticut western news., 1889-08-21

mind that would have deserted many an adult, he took in the situation at 8 glance, and, seizing the already half drowned boy, he held his head above the surface of the water until the united voices of the children drew . man who was working near by to the rescue. Eddie was restored to his par ents rather the worse for his danger ous bath, but was soon completely re- uscitated.-Chicago Times.
 Miss Erma Clara Roth of 261 West Congress street will be three weeks old if she lives until Monday, and she weighs but two pounds. She is the precious property of Mir. and Mrs. Adolph Roth and is as healthy as the average baby of her age. Erma Clara is the second child, and she startled her mamma somewhat by being born so small. The other child weighed six and one-half pounds at birth. while the late arrival, swsthed in heavy flan- nels, tipped the beams at less than two, and she has grown but little since.
 "My little girl inherited her abnor- nal appetite for tobacco from her father, who died on account of his ex- cessive use of the weed shortly after the child was born. Nearly ayear ago the child's tendency in this direction was first brought to my notice. l had her with me on the street and chanced to stop near man who was smoking pipe. The baby, as soon as she per- ceived the odor, reached out her little hands toward the stranger and soon began to cry. All my efforts to calm her were useless, and she went into convulsions. I took her to a doctor and told him the circumstances. After inquiring about the habits of the child's father he told me that the taste for tobacco had beer inherited and must be gratitied unless I desired to lose the child at once. I wish I had let the baby die. Since took that doctors advice the child has never been day without pipe and tobacco, and she has become an expert smoker"
 One of the most remarkable babies that ever gazed on the blue sky of heaven is the fourteen-months old daughter of Mrs. Anna Fettilan, who arrived in New York on the steam ship Servia. The baby is the offspring of Finnish parents, and weighs sixty eight pounds. To carry it the mother had basket made three feet long, two feet wide and eighteen inches deep. The head of the baby is fifteen inches in diameter, and has bust thirty -four inches in circumference. The baby enjoys the best of health and never cries. The many medical men who
 have been consulted are unable to ex- plain why the child is fat. The other members of the Fettilan family are
 average beings, and posses no physical |
 peculiarities.
 The young King of Spain is grow ing into fairly strong and healthy boy, and he is enjoying his holiday stay at Aranjuez with his mother immensely. He is especially de- lighted with the drives which he is taking with the Queen Regent, who drives out every day in a pony phaeton, with pair of bays, which she manages with consummate skill. Her royal son sits up proudly at her side and
 kisses his hand to the delighted country people with most engaging frankness.
 His Majesty's playthings nearly filled
 large luggage van when the royal bag
 gage was brought from Madrid, and additions are made to the assortment at frequent intervals.
 Mrs. Roth, who is pleasant-faced,
 dark-haired little woman about 22 years of age, opened the door and ad- !. mitted the visitor into the room where , the kindergarten baby was.
 , The baby's head is considerably smaller than base ball, and is covered with heavy crop of black hair an inch long.
 The hands of this diminutive infant are perfectly formed, with tapering . fingers tipped with the tiniest pink nails imaginable. Her clenched fist
 is about the size of caramel with the corners rounded off, and the hand when spread out is no bigger than the
 track of 2-weeks-old chicken. Her body corresponds in size with
 mans wrist and from her head to her
 wee heels the distance is only thir-
 teen inches. The legs at the thigh are no larger than the second joint of 8
 mans thumb, and the feet are but all , inch and a quarter long. Altogether Erma Clara Roth is remarkable child, not so much on account of her size,
 but that she bids fair to remain on the
 small spot she occupies on this terres- trial ball. Other babies smaller than Miss Roth have been born, but they were too fragile to endure the strain
 incident to living. The doctor says, barring the ills which infant flesh is