VERY SMALL PEOPLE.

Patea Mail, 1 February 1881, Page 3

VERY SMALL PEOPLE.

All London (says the Home Hews) 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 at 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, the 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 dolls. Lucia, the lady, is about eighteen years of age, full of life and spirits. The least thing sends her off into a fit of merry laughter, and she is always ready to flirt and coquette with the spectators. Her face is distinctly Mexican in features; she has a very long and rather peaky nose, 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. Not the least amusing part of the show is the dejection of Mr Commodore Nutt, the well-known Lillipution,whois utterly out-dwarjed, if we may coin the word, by these almost infiniteisinal pigmies. His air is one of dejection, as though, in dwarhng, the line ought to be drawn at three feet and a half—his own height. These curious specimens of ethnological absurdity are making the tour of the world, and may be expected at the Antipodes in due course.