The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-11-28

told the Society that he measured this
man himself in Dublin, and that he was,
at that early age, seven feet seven
to Ireland for four authentic modern
giants.
One summer evening, as the writer
was passing through beautiful little
burying ground, near Hanover. he OBJ
served figure sculptured on a tomb
stone, more like Guy Fawkes than
anything else, except that it had no
pipe in it's mouth and stood upright,
which of course genuine Guy could
not do. Otherwise it had the true tum-
ble-about, helpless, half wide-awake
look peculiar to these creations of
youthful fancy. 1t was the likeness Of
'Christoff Munster, born at Erlosen,
near Munden, June,s and de-
funct at Hanover. Ausust F6, so
that he lived almost as lds6S great
O'Brien. His effigy is tRe customs
of the body guards of I'll Ieot
which lie served; the tasselled ds9
long single breasted tnI6ic, and slashed
hose. In the Hiii a pious epitdph
he is represented TO Gge been four
els aud a half high. Nc lowest cal-.
Sulnt old G ernian ell is tweri-'
tl fE6ur in6lsos fench, but friend,
accustomed to German measures CONE
puted d four els and half at nine feet
|and hall. - 90
He was alsos given to lighting his
pipe at the lamps, and had to stoop
down to get at them. Being al pbieQt
ofmuch solicitude to his paternal
ernment, he was allowed eight times as
much food as any other person, which
he always promptly disposed of, to say
nothing of a loaf or two at his own
cost into tic bargain. Having been
guilty Of disobedience to his command
ing officer, he was put into the stocks,
orrather pillory. 1t is needless to say
tIlAt h6 was congratulated respecting
fFs distinction by the boys of the place,
who waited in q body upon him for that
purpose. AS, in addition to the com
fort derived from their very sympathis-
Z ing remakrs, he endured all the discom-
fort of an extremely cold winters day,
(Which in Hanover meaning some-
thing like cold) he resolved to change
his quarters, and having by desper-
ate effort uprooted the huge pole to
which his neck was chained, he took
it on his shoulder and walked off with
it to the nearest public house.
tits uncertain whether Belgium or
France had produced a real giant, that
is to say, something above seven feet
and half; but Holland gave birth to
the giant of Utrecht, described by both
Diemerbroek the anaton1ist and Mr..
Ray. They agree i'll their accounts
that he was eight feet and half high,
with well shaped limbs. Leyden pos
scsses the frontal bone Of q man who
must have been nine feet high at least
1t is quite double the size of the from
tai bono of an ordinary skull, and; from
the engraving and careful description
oft in the Royal Society's Transac-
tions, there seems no reason to doubt
that this size is in no way owing TO
disease.
Scotland has in modern days given
to the world one fair sized giant-Big
Sam, the Prince of Wales porter, who
was nearly eight feet high, robust and
well made. His size was no burden
to him, and he was as active in his
movements as other men. He performed
as giant in the romance of CyInon, at
the Haymarkct. But his health failed
so fast in the prime Of life that he had
to return to his native country, and
there, we believed, soon afterwards
died. Sir. Thomas Dick Lauder has
likewise preserved the memory of u
gigantic Highland man who shattered
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