THE ROYAL MIDGETS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3710, 14 January 1891, Page 3

THE ROYAL MIDGETS

Geseral and Mrs MiteThe appearance in the Theatre ltoyal on Friday of General and Mrs Mite is looked forward to with considerable interest by the residents of Masterton. These liny people are the smallest of the diminutive entertainers who have travelled the world; and personally are among the most attractive and intellectual of all the little folks. It is fourteen years now since General Mite first appeared in public. His debut was at the Philadelphia Exhibition, and since then he has travelled over all the cjLtinents of the world. He is now twenty six years of age, and his height is exactly twenty-two inohes, while he weighs twenty eight pounds. Mrs Mite is an inch taller, and three years younger. Two or three years after General Mite started his entertainment he was invited to the White Bouse by Mr Hayes, then President of the United States, .and BO phased was the latter with his vigijer that he conferred on him the distinction of a General in the United States Army. In 1380 he first visited Britain, and very shortly afterwards received a command to appear before the Queen at Windsor Castle. It was in Liverpool that he first met Mrs Mite, and after a courtship of two years they were married some four years ago. General Mite is a gentleman of varied reading, and has also some pretensions to the title of linguist, having a fair command of both French and Spanish. Of music he is very fond, and one of his chief regrets is that his stature prevents him learning any instrument- A piano was made sufficiently small that he could reach all the keja, but it was found that the instrument was worthless in tone; another attempt, this time with the violin, also failed.