There died recently in Stockerau, Bavaria, at the age of
twenty-eight years, a dwarf, Maria Schuman, who was at one time
a celebrity, says _La Nature_. She passed her whole life
in the cradle where she slept her first sleep, twenty-eight
years ago. Up to the day of her death, this strange creature
preserved the height and general appearance of an infant of a
few months; but, wonderful to say, her intellect was normally
developed and nothing could have been odder than to hear this
tiny baby in the cradle talk like an adult, with much vivacity
and intelligence! Maria was born in 1875, at Brigittenan, near
Vienna. Her parents were of normal development, and so were her
brothers and sisters. (Text.)
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