The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-09-09
MRS. FROM,s MIDGET BABIES.
One weighed Eight Ounces and AnotheS
Eleven Ounces at Birth.

From the Daily Ne,ps.
A despatch from New Orleans. dated Sept. 7,
says that George From. an employee Of the
Crescent City Railroad Company. is the father
OF the smallest baby over horn. II IL a boy OF
perfect form and weighs but nine ounces. It IL
in the best OF health. cries Justify, and feeds
ravenously.
Mr.. From is As years old. weighs ITS pounds,
while the mother is ~ and tips tho scales al
125 pounds. She is in the best Of health and
vigorous after having given birth to seventeen
children during her married life of twenty-five
years. Once there were triplets. and az another
time twins were born.
The despatch errs in one statement, and that
is that this is the smallest baby ever born. for
Mrs. From has given birth to two other lflipu-
tians,, one Of which was smaller than the one
Just born: In 1879, before the Sixth Avenue
Elevated Railway was completed above 104th
of the Ddlv Neus office and asked to see a re-
porter. He said his wife had just given birth
Is e % ~hG Sa s% asen sa aRpo shs 20 ls ss the hss snai Hs.s
creature alive OF the human species.
re nes s sspefte ab f%Sn ia !aS F stTss., f MRisSS 1 In t ,sss
, aimost S a wilderness, There a,i n a little old ,fash.
smallest specimen of human flesh ever recorded.
II was then ,thirty-six hours old and weighed
precisely eight ounces, II was the wonder Of
to the doctor IN attendance that q delicate set OF
druggists scales were borrowed with which to
aBaAh ny bit aNoiIuhloAo Va II gOuhkoIcTs VINO
was Just as clipper as a bouncing ten-Pounder.
doctors and scientists who visited the little fell
low that he would mature rapidly. and In . few
months be as large as any ordinary child of lie
age. but he disappointed them, and when he
was 2 years old weighed but 12 pounds. Then
the IRONS disappeared and little frankie was
nothing but a record In the files OF the medical
journals.
Several years went by, and one day the same
Neps reporter accidentally ran across From on
the forward end Of a street car in Minneapolis.
Mimi. which he was driving. On being accost-
ed he said:
Come up to my house next week. Thera IL
to be an interesting event there, and indications
suggest that the child will be another midget.
From said that his wife had given birth to sew
eral children In the interim afteN leaving New
York, but that they were all OF a normal size.
Sure enough. when the eventful time arrived, 10
proved TO be- a boy who tipped the scale at q
tribe over eleven ounces. Kohl and Middleton,
the museum magnates of the Northwest, tried
In vain tO get the mother and child for exhibi-
ton purposes, but the father would not agree 10
II, although urged to do so, and tempted by .
three-igure salary.
The rigorous winters OF Minnesota proved too
strong for the little fellow. and again the IRONS
disappeared and were not heard from until now,
when the advent OF the third liliputian brings
them again before the public down in the Cres-
cent CITY. The first boy. Frank, now is years
OF age, has become independent, and Is travel
ling with a circus as the smallest man alive. and
he weighs but 40 pounds and Is only 80 inches
In height The one born in Minneapolis weighs
but 10 pounds, and is 10 years OF age.