Rossow Midgets, 1897
by Science Source
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Rossow Midgets, 1897
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Entitled "The Rossows, Charles, Frank the smallest and greatest fighters in the world first round, time!" Franz Rossow (1874 - ?) the eldest of sixteen children, is 21 inches in height, and weighs 24 pounds. Carl (1876 - ?) is 29 inches tall and weighs 16 pounds. The Rossows, born in Vienna, are handsome blond fellows, with well-cut, regular features, and are perfect in all their proportions except their heads, which are a trifle large. Both are splendidly developed muscularly, exceedingly lithe and graceful, and exceptionally clever athletes. Franz is the heavy weight of the team and Carl the quicker in his move ments. The ease with which these little fellows swing immense weights and dumbbells is really marvelous, and their wrestling and boxing matches are delightful to witness. There is no play about the matter; both are in deadly earnest, and they are so graceful, well-trained, and perfectly matched, that up to the last moment it is always a toss-up which one will win. Their popularity is amazing; their appearance is always the signal for an ovation, and at the end of their act they are recalled again and again by rounds of enthusiastic applause. Excerpted and edited from Demorest's Family Magazine, 1894.
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