Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1892 — THE SMALLEST OF MIDGETS. [ARTICLE]

THE SMALLEST OF MIDGETS.

A Baby That Can Sleep In the Palm of One’s Hand. A wee rollicking, kicking babe,amidg«t is attracting great attention near Feebles 0.. and people fur miles around are calling upon the father and mother of this wonderful prodigy. The mother shows this tipey babe to the admiring curiosity seekers with a pleased and loyiug smile When asked if she would place It on exhibition, she emphatically said: “No; itli my smallest, and shall have the greatest attention 01 all my children, and it will never enter a museum with my consent” Mrs. August Baldwin, who lives near Plum Run station, is the lady who has given birth to the smallest child ever born In that county. It weighs only one pound and nine ounces, and Is now ten days aid. and. fairly liealthly. The prospects are It will live and grow to matnrlty. The mother of the child Is A stiong, healthy woman, weighing 145 pounds, and the father Is of tho ordinary size. Ho is a muscular young farmor. The child wears small doll clothes and a finger ring will go on its arm to the shoulder with the greatest ease. It lies on the palm of a person’s hand without any trouble. It lias a full head of dark curly hair, and cries as lustily as Itssfit all size will permit. /