Two Queer Fellows.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 6, 23 June 1887, Page 3

Two Queer Fellows.

THE MITE AND THE YOUTH. The Mite and the Ci- oassian Youth are off south by to-morrow’s steamer, To-day is the last chance the public will have of seeing these freaks of nature. They are reai’y well worth a visit. The Mile is a cheeky young man of the size of three pen-north of coppers who can dance jigs, sing songs, and generally “ kick up a bobbery ” worthy of a Chinese giant on the rampage. Altogether Artemus Ward’s description of his kangaroo would fit the Mite as well as a made to order six guinea suit; He is indeed "an amoozin little cuss.” He is double knuckled, and "it be were only tall enough,” as the song says, he could knock spots out of Richardson, Matthews, or the great Yankee Sullivan, himself. As tor the Circassian Youth, his head of hair reminds us equally of a newly presented young lady at a Court reception, or of a Samoan beau at a South Sea " hake.” He really is an extraorffnary individual, The hair is genuine enough, and the base suspicion of a wig will be t 1 'smissed as groundless by anyone having the curiosity to inspect the roots. Both of these ma. /els of nature have travelled with the great American Barnum. If all the wonders of the world possessed by Phineas T. Barnum are as odd as the Mite and tue Circassian Youth, we should like to look round. Go and see them to-day before they go to Napier.