The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-01-16

Giants.
The Bible mentions. several races OF
giants, a. the Rephaims the Anakims. th.
Emims, the LonIonims. and others. Pro-
Zane historian, also mention giants they
gave seven feet of height 10 Hercules, their
first hero. aud In our days we have seen
men eight feet high. The giant who was
shown IN Ronen in 1873 measured eight
feet some inches. The Emperor Maximin
was Of that size; Skenkius and Platcrus.
physician, OF the last century, saw several
of that stature; and Goropius saw girl
who was ten feet high.
The body Of OrcstcS. according 10 the
Greeks, was eleven feet and half: the
giant Galbarl. brought from Arabia TO
Rome under Claudius Caesar. was near ten
feet; and the bones of Secondilla and
Puiio, keepers of the gardens of Sallust,
were but six inches shorter.
Funnam. Scotchman. who lived in the
time Of Eugene the Second. King of Scot
land. measured eleven feet and half: and
Jacob lie Marie, in his voyage To the Straits
of Magellan. reports that on the 18th of
December. 1913. they found at Port Desire
several graves covered with stones; and
having the curiosity 10 remove the stones,
they discovered human skeletons of ten
and eleven feet long
The Chevelier Scory. i'm his voyage 10 the
| Peak OF Tenerifie. says that they found ia
one of the Sepulchral caverns of that noun
tain the head of a Gaunche. which hat
eighty teeth. and that the body was not
less than fifteen feet long.
The giant FerraguS. slain by Orlando.
nephew OF Charlemagnc, was eighteen
Get high.
Rioand. a celebrated anatomist. who
wrote in 1914. says that. some years before.
there was 10 be seen in the suburbs of 81.
German the tomb of the giant Isoret, who
was twenty feet high.
In Rouen. in 1919. i'm digging in the
bitches near the Domincans. they found
stone tomb containing skeleton. whose
skull held bushel OF corn. and whose
shin-bone reached up to the girdle of the
tsllest man there, being about four feet
long and consequently the body must
have been seventeen or eighteen feet high.
| pom the tomb was a plate of copper.
wherein was engraved. - In this tomb
lies the noble and puissant lord. the Chev,
alier Ricon dc Nallemont. and his bones. "
Platerus. "A famous physician. declares that
he saw AT Lucerne the true human bones
of a subject which must have been at
least nineteen feet high.
Nalence in Dauphinc boasts of possess
ing the bones of the giant Bucart, tyrant
of the Niyarais. who was slain by an ar
row by the Count de Cabillon. his vassal.
The Dominicans had part of the shin
bone. with the articulation of the knee.
and his figure painted i'm fresco. with an
inscription showing that this giant was
twenty-five feet and half high. and that
his bones were found in 1908. near the
hanks of the MOrleri. little river at the
foot Of the mountain of CrusSol. upon
which. tradition says, the giant dwet.
January II. 1913. some masons digging
near the ruins of "A castle in Dauphinc. in
a field. which by tradition had long been
called the Giants Field. at the depth of
eighteen feet discovered brick tomb thir-
" feet long, twelve feet wide. and eight
feet high. ON which was gray stone. with
the words Theutobochus Rex cut thereon.
When the tomb was opened they found a
human skeleton entirc-twenty-iiye feet
and half long. ten feet wide acros, the
shoulders. and five feet deep from the
brcast-bonc 10 the back. His teeth We're
about the size each Of an oN's foot. and
his shin-bone measured four feet.
Near MeZarino. in Sicily. in lSlG. was
found giant thirty feet high; his head
was the size of hogshead. and each Of his
teeth weighed five ounces.
Near IdltTlno. III lllf Ndllfl Dl nlL-tist.
in Sicily. skeleton of "A giant thirty feet
long was found in the year 1913. and an
other Of thirty-thrce feet high i'm 1850: and
many curious persons have preserved sew
cral of these gigantic bones.
The AthcnianS found near their city two
famous ~kclctOns. onc of thirty-four and the
other of thirty-siX feet high
At 1otu. in Bohemia. in as. was found
a skeleton the head of which could scarce
be- encompassed sy the arms OF two men
together. and whose LEGS. which they still
keep IN the castle ofthat city. were twenty
six feet long.
The skull OF the giant found in Mace
donna September. 1871. held 200 pounds of
corn.
The celebrated Sir Hans Sloane. who
treated this matter very learnedly does not
doubt these facts but thinks the bones were
those of elephants. whales. or other enor-
nous animals.
Elephants bones may be- shown for those
of giants. but they can never impose on
connoisSeurs.
Whales which by their immense bulk are
more proper To be substituted for the
larger giants. have neither arms nor legs
and the head of that animal has not the
least resemblance "a that of a man. III IL
be- true. therefore. that a great number of
the gigantic bones which we have men,
TONED have been seen by anatomists. and