Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-02-24
THERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS.


Professor Silliuan, in one Of his lectures,
mentions the discovery of All enormous ami
NAL of the lizard tribe, measuring eighty feet
in length, from which he infers that all AMI
mails have degenerated in size--and this sup
position is fortified b. reference to The his
tory OF giants in the olden time. 1t appears
from the list furnished by the Professor, lha,
we of the present day are mere tom
Thumbs" when compared with the huge in
dividualities Of antiquity, Here is the list
The giant exhibited in Rouen in l745, mea-
sures over eight feet.
Gorapius saw q girl who was ten feet high!
The body of Gresius was eleven feet and
half high! ...
The Giant Galbara, brought, from Arabia TO
Rome, under Claudius Cmsar, was near ton
feet.
Fnnnman, who liked in the time Of Eugene
II, measured eleven feet and half.
The Chevalier Scorg, in his voyage to the
peaks Of Teneriffe, found in one of the ca.
vens OF that mountain, the head of Guance,
which had eighty teeth, and it was supposed
that his body was not less than fifteen feet
long!
The Giant Fcrragus, slain by Arlando, ne.
phew TO Charlemagne, was eighteen feet
highi
In l6l4, near St. German, was found the
tomb OF the Giant Isoret, who was twenty
feet hich
In 1890, near Rouen, they found a skeleton
whose skull held bushel of corn, and whose
body must have been eighteen feet long.
Plalerus saw at Lucerne, the human bones
OF 4 subject nineteen feet long!
The Giant Buart was twenty-five and
half feet high; his bones were found in 1905
near the banks of the river Moderi.
In 1913, near castle in Dauphne tomb
was found thirty feet iongi twelve wide and
eight high, on which was cut on grey stone
/ the words ''keulolochus Rex " The skels-
/ ton was found entire twenty y-fve and half
feet long, ten feet across the shoulders, and
! five feet deep from the breas.-bone to tho
! back.
Near Mazarine, in Sicily, in 1916, wa:
found the skeleton of giant thirty feet high
| His head was the size of a hogshead and
each of his teeth weighed five ounces
Near Palermo, in Sicily, in l54s, was found
the skeleton of giant thirty feet long, and
another thirty.three feet high, in 1850.
ANEcDorE OF Da. BEEcHER -Rev. Dr..
Lyman Beecher, as he was going home On,
night, carrying volume Of an encyclopedias
under his arm, saw small animal standing
in his path. The doctor knew that it was q
skunk, bnt very imprudently hurled the book
at him, Whereupon the skunk opened his
battery with return fire 50 well directed lha,
ihe doctor was glad to retreat When he ar.
rived home his friends coud scarcely come
near him. His clothes were so infected ,ha;
he was obliged to bury them. Some time
after this enc Of Dr.. Beechers enemies pub.
lished a pamphlet speaking very abusive Of
him. ''Why don't you publish a book and
pnt him down at once ," said one of his adj
visers. II have learned BETTER" said III.
doctor; "some years ago issued whole
quario Volume against q skunk, and got the
worst of it, never mean to try the expert
ment again"
CoSSrDrAL.-"My dear, did John black
, them boots ?'
''llow should know hahn, got any thins
to do with your boots. It's washing day.
''But my love. you need no, speak so cross. ;
''Speak 90 cross didn't speak cross -
"O--say you did.n
81 say did,'
; II say didn'l.n. 49,
"My gracious! won't ,tand this It's toe
bad to be treated in this way, I'll leave you
madam" I'll have a separation"
''Oh, MIR. Slub-was ever woman sc
abused. Here I've been washing and scrub.
, bng all day long as hard as ever could, and
, and then you come home and act so to me
jos, cause don't know nothing about your
boots-Oh, il is too bad, it is boo-hoo boc
hoo ~
, "Hem Well, Nancy, didn't mean To
: make you cry. Never mind-I reckon John
, has BACKED my boots Is them are sassen'
gers 10 be fried for surper4' ,......
"Y-e,e-s- dear, | got 'em for yov
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