Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1898 — France’s Smallest Soldier. [ARTICLE]

France’s Smallest Soldier.

The smallest soldier In France la Louis Bernadot, of Luret, who Is only 2 feet 4 Inches In height. He is a dwarf with a slight mustache. When he presented himself to draw his number out of. the conscription uru it was discovered that his head did not reach to the top of the table on which the urn was placed, so a gendarme held him up by the collar to enable him to put his hand In the urn;