Spreading out pieces of matting or blankets on the ground on the side White Cloud Mountain a host of the devoted who had come to do honour to the legendary deity Tseng Sin were caught in the storm last World's Smallest Man to Tour Globe Mukden, Aug. 26, Telegrams from Scupingkai report the appearance there of the Smallest dwarf in the world. He Is 20 inches high, weighs 30 Ib. and is 48 years old. He is reported to be well formed and robust.
He claims to have been born the Yenki district, in the Province of Kirin, and said to day that he intended to. travel around. the world without cost. He will sleep in hotel chairs, he said.
So far, he has not been charged for accommodation in Mukden. Local officials, it is reported, are planning a public reception and parade for him. During the Parade, he will ride a goat es the Mfeature stunt."—United Press, their doors, and to give refuge to the rain-soaked worshippers.
Meanwhile considerable property of the temple had been broken, even a large bel being cracked.
Slipping on the wet stones of the mountain-side, 23 persons fell heavily From the Fong Pin Hospital came crew of doctors and nurses who gave first gid, and several had to be taken away"in stretchers for further treatment.
"Tseng Sin's birthday falls on August 22, but these devoted admirers of the famous "fairy" had come vel advance to celebrate the glad cceaston.
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