Chapter Dustman has arrived to Dwarfs of D by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

contemporary with Hippocratês. So thin "that he wore leaden shoes lest the wind should blow him away." (Died B.C. 280.)
SAWYER (A. L.), 2 ft. 6 1/2 in., weight 39 lbs. Editor in 1883, etc., of the Democrat, a paper of considerable repute in Florida.
STOBERIN (C. H.), of Nuremberg, 2 ft. 11 in at the age of twenty.
STOCKER (Nannette), 2 ft. 9 in. Exhibited in London in 1815.
STRASSE DAVIT Family. Man, 1 ft. 8 in.; woman, 1 ft. 6 in.; child, at age of seventeen, only 6 in. Embalmed in the chemical library of Rastadt.
T ERESIA (Madame). A Corsican, 2 ft. 10 in., weight 27 lbs. Exhibited in London 1773.
TOM THUMB (General), whose name was Charles S. Stratton, born at Bridgeport in Connecticut, U.S., 2 ft. 1 in., weight 25 lbs, at the age of twenty-five. (1838-83.) Exhibited first in London in 1844. In 1863 he married Betsy Bump (Lavina Warren).
TOM THUMB, a Dutch dwarf, 2 ft. 4 in, at the age of eighteen.
WANMER (Lucy,) 2 ft. 6 in., weight 45 lbs. Exhibited in London, 1801, at the age of forty-five.
WARREN (Lavina), married to General Tom Thumb in 1863, was also a dwarf, and in 1885 she married another dwarf, Count Primo Magri, who was 2 ft. 8 in.
WORMBERG (John), 2 ft. 7 in at the age of thirty-eight (Hanoverian period).
XIT was the dwarf of Edward VI.
ZARATE (Lucia), 1 ft. 3 in. An excellent linguist of Shigaken Osara (b. 1851).
   Nicephorus Galistus tells us of an Egyptian dwarf not bigger than a partridge.
   The names of several infants are known whose heads have not exceeded in size an ordinary billiard ball. The son of D. C. Miller, of Candelaria, born October 27th, 1882, weighed only 8 3/3 oz. A silver dollar would entirely hide its face, and its mouth was too small to admit an ordinary lead pencil.
   The head of the son of Mrs. Charles Tracy, of Kingsbridge, N.Y., was not bigger than a horse-chestnut, and the mouth would hardly grasp a goose-quill. The mother's wedding ring would slip easily up its legs and thighs.
   The head of Mr. Marion Poe's child was not so big as a billiard ball, and the mother's ring would slip up the arm as high as the shoulder. Mr. Poe stands over six feet in height.
   I have a list of several other babies of similar dimensions.