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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 854, 26 August 1871, Page 3

Americana are beginning to prepare for the Presidential election, which takes place next year. According to the New York "Tribune," the campaign will be " the most infuriated contest we have ever had." The cause of this is stated to be the feuds in the Republican ranks. A French dwarf. —Amongst the exiles from France, which the late disastrous war has driven to our shores, not the least remarkable is the graceful little lady who has been daily holding levees in the Burlington Gallery. The Princess Felicie, as her exhibitors have christened her, is a genuine dwarf, a real living Lilliputian. She is, perhaps, the smallest yet exhibited in London, one beside whom Miss Minnie "Warren would be almost a giantess. Like Miss Minnie, the Princess Felicie is the child of parents of the ordinary stature who have accompanied her over to England from her native Province. She is now in her ninth year, measures scarcely nineteen inches in height, and weighs just six pounds. She is of perfect symmetry in limb and feature, and altogether a pleasing and gentle child " English Paper." The range of human knowledge has increased so enormously that no brain can grapple with it; and the man who would know one thing well must have the courage to be ignorant of a thou • sand other things, however attractive or inviting.