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Southland Times, Issue 19036, 2 May 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)

In the Valley of Kibas, in tho Eastern Pyrenees, there lives a race of dwarfs. They .ire styled Nanos by the other natives. They reach a height of four feet, and are well built, with small hands and feet and broad shoulders. Their hair is red, their chins square and large, their cheek-bones are high, their eyea are like a Chinaman's, their face is full, and their skin pale and loose. The men have hardly any beard. The other inhabitants mock them constantly, and this forces them to live by themselves. As they are not intelligent, have no education, and no means of improving themselves, their lot is not a happy one. Professor Marapta, who discovered them, says none of them could tell him where they lived, nor had any idea of numbers, but he thought them amiabto aaa quite willing to leans.

In these days we are quite puffed up with pride when our .financial status enables us to warm our houses throughout with the latest patent now»and original hot- water pipe 1 device. 87$- ijut Lucius Annteus Seneca tells us of a hcta&isr pipe system of warning priviite houses, which was quite fashionable in his time. He was born 3 b.c. and died 65 a.p. His name for a complete outfit of hotwater pipes was a hypocaust. The apparatus was merely a furnace ingeniously arranged in the basement of a villa, from which several pipes of baked clay built into the walls carried the heat upwards to the fir?t «nd second .storey. The upper orifices opened into the chamber to be heated. In Seucca'is opinion, the arrangement was unwholesonio, and produced an. atmosphere vroiit for human e?»* sumption,