Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1878 — A Small Specimen of Humanity. [ARTICLE]

A Small Specimen of Humanity.

Master Franky Flynn, of Norwich, N. Y., is probably the smallest specimen of a boy ever known. He is four and a half years old, and is thus described by the correspondent of' the Utica Observer: “We went to see him, expecting a Tom Thumb or Commodore Nutt to walk in before us. Imagine our surprise when his grandmother brought him in as one would a goodsized cat. He is not as Jarge as one of Tom Thun£ In Tom Thumb’s carriage w “-t)uld look as lonesome as an ora ,i.i-y man in a circus band-wagon. To sit upon one of Tom Thumb’s easy-chairs would .be to him what it is to the ordinary boy to perch upon a gate-post when the spring comes. He is smaller than any one can conceive who has not actually seen him. Yesterday he had on two pairs of stockings, and even then tbe small-est-sized baby shoes were too large for hfm. His wrist is the size of ah ordinary man’s thumb, his ankle but a slight increase. He was dressed in a full suit, like a man. He stands twen-ty-three inches in his shoes, and weighs, clothes and all, twelve pounds. That is the most he ever weighed in his life. Still, he is a lively, sprightly boy, very active, climbing into chairs and getting down; walks around with his hands behind him, ‘like his grandpa,’ and talks and laughs, and is as cute as any boy of his years. He is no larger than he was when one year old.”