A FEMALE DWARF HALF THE SIZE OF TOM THUMB.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 175, 13 December 1876, Page 4

A FEMALE DWARF HALF THE SIZE OF TOM THUMB.

A large number of physicians .went to Tony Pastor’s Theatre lately to see the Mexican dwarf,, Lucia Zarate. They measured her, and ascertained her height to be twenty-one inches, her feet throe indies long, her legs below the knee four inches. in circumference, and her hands an inch and a quarter broad. Her mother, who is robust and of a medium size says that Lucia is twelve years old. Her face is older than that. Her features are Spanish, and her complexion dark. Her activity is incessant. She played pranks with the physicians, and talked, fast in Spanish. She stopped

into a high silk hat, crouched down, and was out of sight excepting her head She squeezed one other pliable little hands through a rather large linger ring. Tiie hand of an adult made an ample seat for her. Standing on a chair, and holding to the hack of it, her fingers stuck through the spaces in the canework, —holes that just admitted the passage, of a small penholder. She was not weighed, but her weight is said to be five pounds, and poised in the hand, she does not seem heavier. Her clothing is comically small, as though intended for a doll, the shoes ami stockings especially being toylike, Tom Thumb has grown appreciably since ho was 'exhibited by Barnum ; hut when lie first astonished the public, he was twice as large as Lucia, and bo w.is then about her present ago. She has not grown any her mother says since she was a year old. —New York Sun.