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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 21, 25 January 1881, Page 4

All London is talking of the last wonder which has come to it — two morsels of humanity of the veritable lilliputian type, which are now on show in Piccadilly. One weighs less than five pounds, and the other barely nine, and both are about a couple of feet high. The smallest, a lady, is a native of Mexico, and talks Spanish or English indifferently well ; the other, a gentleman, hails from New York. It is difficult to imagine anything funnier than the appearance of these mites, walking up and down their tiny stage like animated dollß.* Lucia, the lady, is about 18 years of age, full of life and spirits. The least thing sends her off into a fit of merry laughter, and she ifl always ready to flirt and coquette with,; the spectators. Her face is distinctly, Mexican in features ; she has a verylong and rather peaky cose, with a retreating chin and full lips. Her complexion is decidedly tawny ; the little Yankee, although two years younger, is of graver aspect, as becomes his sex, but he is ready to exchange jests with the public, and can hold his own well. I Not the least amusing part of the show is the dejection of Mr Commodore Nutt, the' well-known lilliputian, who is utterly outdwarfed, if we may coin the

word, by these almost infinitesimal pigmies. His air is one of dejection, ns though, in dwarfing, the line ought to be drawn at three feet and a half, llis own height. These curious specimens of ethnological absurdity are making the tour of the world, and may be expected at tlic Artipodes in due course.