They showed themselves to be worthy rivals for
honors in the class of entertainments known as burlesques. As
near as could be ascertained, partly from the fact that they all
spoke German fluently and originally gave their performance
entirely in German, they were collected from the German and
Austrian Empires.
The "Princess Topaze" was born near Paris in 1879. According to a
recent report she is perfectly formed and is intelligent and
vivacious. She is 23 1/2 inches tall and weighs 14 pounds. Her
parents were of normal stature.
Not long since the papers recorded the death of Lucia Zarete, a
Mexican girl, whose exact proportions were never definitely
known; but there is no doubt that she was the smallest midget
ever exhibited In this country. Her exhibitor made a fortune with
her and her salary was among the highest paid to modern "freaks."
Miss H. Moritz, an American dwarf, at the age of twenty weighed
36 pounds and was only 22 inches tall.
Precocious development is characterized by a hasty growth of the
subject, who at an early period of life attains the dimensions of
an adult. In some of these instances the anomaly is associated
with precocious puberty, and after acquiring the adult growth at
an early age there is an apparent cessation of the development.
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