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

Parsons, King James Porter, he was
not much above seven feet, and only
fit to rank in a lower class than the
Irish and Hanover giants.
England has made one or two tolora-
bic attempts to produce a giant. One of
these was chronicled by Mr.. Dawkes,
surgeon of st. Ives, in that quaint,
vigorous, natural style, which gives
peculiar charm to the medical writer's
of century and half ago. The first
communications respecting tho pro-
dizzy in question were made to DR.. Mead
and the Royal Society, who encouraged
Mr.. Dawkes to prosecute his inquiries.
This immense creature, long known rs
the. gigantic boy of Willingham, was
called Thomas Hall, and was the son of
a little father and almost a little mo-
ther. He himself, at his entrance upon
this seer vas only u fine, 1usty baby.
But he began to grow at rate which
Eastonishod the whole neighborhood, and
when two years and eleven months old,
ahe was more than three feet nine inches
high, Two months later he had reach
edfhe height of three feet elevon:
g1Wing at the rate of nearly an inch
Nearly u twelvemonth after,
had attained the height of four feet
Eve inches so that had he grown to
manhood at this rate, he would have
been at least nine feet high.
The cause of the first check to his
growth appears to have been extreme
sstuffing. After his third year he was
taken about for show, and created an
xtraord;nary sensation. But he was so
scrammed that he soon learned to care
for nothing but dainties, and was fire.
quently s'debauched with wine"-a
nice state of matters for child three
years old! The natual upshot was that
he had crop of boils, fell into ill
health, and was checked in his growth.
Previously he had been but smalleater
and drinker.
His bulk and strength were quite pro-
portionate to his great height. Before
he was 3 years old the calf of his leg
was above ten inches round, and he
weighed, in his 'Ecloaths," four stone
two pound. When five years old he
weighed, even after his illness. upwards
of six stone. His strength was pro-
digious. When less than years old
Mr.. Dawkes saw him take u hammer,
seventeen pounds weight, and throw it
from him to considerable distance.
When little moro than 3 years old, he
could place large Cheshire cheese
upon his head, and left a runlct two
gallons, Winchester measure) full Of
ale to his mouth, and drink freely from
it. BY this tinfo no was the champion
Of the school. Boys Of seven or eight
years of age had no chance against
him; he never condoscended TO fight
with them; he simply colIarcd them
and brought them down TO the ground.
Sometimes, at o late date, he would
offer to fight oil the boys in the Schools,
two at time, and threaten TO put them
in his pocket. When he was > years
old, and stilt suffering from illness, Mr..
DawIScs got him TO exhibit his strength.
A wheelbarrow of uncommon size and
very heavy was selected; ono of the
biggest boys then got into it, and Tom
trundicd him of with ease. Two Of the
biggest boys then got III, and the
young Anak made it move "two rota-
tions of the Thcel' This VAS nj he
could do-und not amiss either, rs tho
two boys weighed twelve stono two
pounds, and he was not well.
Even at very early age his voice
was like Il mans. When three years
old ho seems to have possessed az much
sense as boys Of five or six, and, by the
time he had passed Lis fifty year, he
behaved himself in every way as a
crown man. Tic was extremely fond