GIANTS AND DWARFS.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3079, 30 December 1878, Page 1

GIANTS AND DWARFS.

The last of the giants of East Angli* has recently died at the age of fifty-four. Ben Daniels was a farmer at Scratby on the coast near Yarmouth, fire miUw

from the home of the famous Norfolk Giant, Hales, and measured 8 feet 6 in. in height and 40 inches across the shoulders, and weight 24 stone. He was so powerful .as to carry 4 bushels of wheat under each arm, and in busy times he\ would harness himself to a harrow and work his fields.—A rival to General Tom Thumb is now in Calcutta. He is a Hindustani Brahmin from Cuttack, is only three feet in height, and declares himself to be thirty-six years of age while not looking more than eight years of .age. The little fellow is well proportioned and handsome, and appears quite satisfied with himself. He is employed at Cuttack, says the Times of India, as " mounted orderly " to a Sahib. The smallest pony in the world also is now in the possession of the youngest Maharajah of Puttiala. According to the description in a Lahore journal, the tiny animal canoe from Nepaul, and though it stands only eight inches high is the perfect miniature of a well bred horse. This Lilliputian wonder is fit to be the steed of the Mexican dwarf who has appeared at San Francisco. Lucia Zarate at twelve years old, is only twenty-one inches in height, and weighs about five pounds ; -her feet are three inches long, and her hands an inch and a quarter broad. Lucia can get into an ordinary chimney pot hat, and put her hand through a finger ring, while her clothing seems intended for a doll. Tom, Thumb was twice Lucia's size at the same age, and the wee damsel is said not to have grown at all since she was a year 01d..',..: ■:■■:■■■> ■ ,' :