Show I 1 t THE VERY EST MAN A dwarf mho who woold flave aa nanza ua Is lived today to dey day dobo bobo ie Is suP supposed to havo have been ti smallest man who w no eror ched 11 ad was borne by a woman iu in lorraine Lor raino just lust year years ago and unit trail was called leobe because tho the first fair 3 ettra of ills lite bo be could attl eulate only bb b b 11 tile du day of his hi birth dobo bobo was mailer smaller than jigs hs mother mothers band hand ton days afterward ho he aws taken to the village cure to bo be baptized la in his mother mothers wooden hue shoe because ho he was ivas too tired to bo carried safely in bor bar arm dariz during tho the next six months tho tile same woo an shoo served oa as bobes crib when IT ilu dobo was about seven years old king king stanislaus of poland who w 0 was then living at lorraine Lor raino beard heard what a wonderful wood erfal little fellow follow ho was and ordered tho tile childs father to bring him to court bebo debo sr carried bis his ion son to the royal palace in a mail small baskot stanislaus aid said at once that bebo babe must become his ills court dwarf belies father was induced to accede to Us iyo poal with a it good 9 bid UL of royal polish gold and bobo was made a regular follower of the kinds kings court i atthe at the time of his introduction to court life debo bobo was wa lust just twenty inches talland tall and weighed eighty pounds llo never grow larger ho ila had lind a sweet little voice a good aarfor oar for music and nimbly legs llo could danco and lag sing with the best of tho tile kings courtiers ho ile was useful as a ornament ul at nil all he the kings groat great banquets ilia most fatuous a ap po aranco to fn this rather peculiar roro rolo took ook place at a dinner which stanie stanis laus gave to tho the ambassador of a groat groan power la in 1785 la in middle of the table was an immense oa castle shortly before the guests rose to leave tho the door of the castle opened and a knight in full armor stepped out with a drawn sword in his ills right hand all tho the guests thought the knight must bo be somo some wonderful automaton which tho the king had obtained from the skilled mechanics across tho the rhino llo however llo sr was as none other than little bobc debe llo walked around tho the table shook his ills sword in the faco of every ovary guest saluted tho the kin king and ilion turned back to the castio casco en an aranco where bo he assumed tho the position of a jontry at a signal from tho tile king every ono at the table begun to bombard him with a small mall sugar balls bebo debe hurried at on c a into the castle locked the door mounted the tower and pretended proton dod to return a the uro by setting off a lot of perfumed ll 11 explosives 1 orives in 1758 alp the 1 empress catharino catharine of 1 sent an after him to the court of tho the polish king lato ouo buo evening when the royal palace a was allou deserted Cathar laos emis ary snapped id bebo bobo up and stuffed hl hn h n into the pocket of his greatcoat rent coat bobo screamed so lustily that tat ho he re revel veiled led the plot to tho the guard at tho the door doo r tho the emissary y was arrested and bebe bobo was aed rescued not long afterward erward oft bobe bobo accod panted to tho the court of louis XV in versailles where he again narrowly escaped abduction A lady of tho the french court bad had been holding hira in her lap between the courso of a state dinner suddenly Sud dealy cho the rose to dicave tho the room her first step was accompanied COM hauled by a it shrill cry from tho folds of hor lid gown your majesty Us lesty your majesty this lady baa haj stuck roo mo in her pocket and is runal running lal away with me the voice was bebop bews he was immediately med lately dragged rom tho the court ladys pocket and aud add under tho the guard of two who were in tod by the king ing stanislaus to watch him day and sad night the perils through which ho he had passed and the strict surveillance to which be he was now subjected depressed babes spirits and demoralized his nervous system he ile became melan holy morose round shouldered and he hazard hemard mard the rge T finx aa thou glIt ho 11 n companion to cheer ulm him up and tho the referee married himwich him with great pomp and ceremony to thereso therese bourn it dwarf of about his ills own age and slightly n ly greater stature th tint tt was thel tho last 8 t drop r in bebee I 1 b es I 1 cup two weeks after his marria e he curt bis his mind id he cc ceased ased to talk entirely ate little and spent most of bis his timo time in LIs crib his ills hon 3 moon was h ardly up un when he died at tho the age of 21 ilia Hi sisifo ife thereso therese mr forty two years yeam |