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

hands upon the shoulders Of his u
panions; and whom he,stood up, he had
ia put his hands upon the small Of his
back, as if his spine wanted keeping
in shape. x
1t was O'Btieti who frightened the
watchman by lighting his pipe at a
street-lamp: The man coming sud-
denly upon this appalling spectre at
dead of night, fell down in fit, and
was carried to the nearest lookup.
Anothe, time the giants carriage was
stopped by highwayman, when
O'Brien put his head out Of the window,
the terrible highwayman Immediately
clapped spurs to his horse and fed.
O'Brien was the king Of his tribe,
and--as far as possible for a giant
enjoyed life. He was won't at times to
retire from the busy haunts of man
and reside in a mansion near Epping
Forest, which had once been converted
into an inn. He seems to have been an
amiable, quiet sort of giant, and, up to
the last, loved to meet his friends over
the cheerful glass and pipe. Ills
stature increased till he arrived, at the
age of twenty-five, when his gr6Wth
abated somewhat (pretty nearly tfnle,)
but he continued growing alittie after
that period, till he attained tka AaiEt
of eight feet seven inches; his foot
being seventeen inches. and .llis haasa
twelve inches long. He book very
good care no one should dissect him,
for his grave was dug ten feet deep
in the solid rock, after which it was
thoroughly fastened and watched.
The Irish giant, whose skeletonis such
a striking object in the Museum of the
College of Surgeons in London, had a
very brief career of it. Being
addicted TO whisky, and having one day
lost all his money, he gave himself np
to sueh debauch Ito trawn care3 llsst
his health broke down, ana he dieslSsat
the age of twenty two.
Itwas believed by his friends that he
was buried at ST. Martin's-in-t the -ISe1ds,
and his coffin was certainly taken there,
though he wished that his remains
should be sunk in the sea; but John
Hunter was determined to his body,
and actually paid five hundred pounds
for it; The skeleton is eight feet high.
1t is well and strongly made, the huge
frame being quite symmetrical, except
that the neck of one thigh bone is
longer than the other; the tissue Of the
bones, does not seem to be so compact
as in other skeletons. Large as the
head looks, there is not more room for
brain than in a man of moderate size:
The writer having seen with his own
eyes this skeleton, and having learned
that the skeleton of this giants great
rival lay ten feet deep in the rock,
was not a little startled by being told
that the skeleton of the Irish giant was
in the anatomical room of Trinity Col
lege, Dublin. Sure enough a giants
skeleton is, or was there, of which the
following history has been given.
The celebrated Berkely, Bishop of
Cloyne, of tar-water memory, in one
of his rambles found boy seated on n
doorstep, apparently in an advanced
stage ofhunger and poverty. Being
of a benevolent disposition, the bish-
op relieved his necessities but being
also of a philosophic turn of mind, he
subjected this hapless orphan to q Sc
Ties Of interesting experiment: putting
him through the same fattening process
by which prize pigs and bullocks are
brought to the verge of suffocation.
These succeeded to perfection; the
youth shot up like a scarlet runner,
and at I6 years of age was seven feet
high. McGrath(tha was his name)
now made the tour of part of Europe as
the prodigious Irish Giant" But the
bigger he grew, the more helpless he