Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — Diminutive Missouri People. [ARTICLE]

Diminutive Missouri People.

Kansas City Times. At Cassville, Barry county, I became acquainted with Samuel Gilmore, a farmer, forty years of age, who is only two feet nine inches tall and weighs fortvsix pounds. He is a Justice of . the Peace and has been for nine years. He owns a farm of 320 acres and looks after its management himself. He has received offers from Barnum and other showmen, but has refused them all, preferring to remain upon his farm. He is married* his wife being a medium-sized woman, and has five children. At Paris, the county seat of Monroe county, I met two young ladies who are actually belles of the place and yet are mere children in size. The elder is now in her twentysecond year and is two feet eleven inches in height and weighs fifty-four pounds. She has long light hair and is just the size of a six-year-old child. They are really the handsomest ~ little women I ever saw. They dress stylishly, have classical educations, are accomplished musicians and have traveled extensively. They come of a prominent ans wellknown family, and their father, who is now dead* was a man over six feet tall. Their mother is a woman of medium size. They have refused an offer of SSOO a week from Barnum. __