The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05

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The Bible mentions several races Ol
giants. as the Rephaims, the Ana.
kims, the Emims, the ZOnz0nims,
and others. Profane historians also
mention giants; they gave seven feet
of height to Hercules, their first hero,
and In our days we have seen men
eight feet high. The giant who was
shown In R0un In 1875 measured
eight feet some inches. The Empe-
ror Maximum was of that size Sken-
kius and Platerus physicians of the
last century, saw several OF that stat
ure; and GrOphius saw a girl who
was ten feet high.
The body of Grestes, according to
the Greeks, was eleven feet and a
half; the giant Galbara, brought
from Arabia to Rome under ClaudIus
Caesar, was near ten feet /; and the
bones of Secondilla and Pufio, keep
ers of the gardens of Sallust, were
but six inches shorter.
Funnam, q Scotchman, who lived
in the time of Eugene the III, King
of Scotland measured eleven feet and
a half; and Jacob lie Marie, In his
voyage to the straits of Magellan,
reports that on the 18th OF December,
1915, they found at Port Desire, sew
eral graves covered with stones and
having the curiosity to remove the
stones, they discovered human skele-
tons Of ten and eleven feet long.
Cheualier ScOry, in his voyage to
the Peak of Teneriffe, says that they
found In one of the sepulchral cav
ems of that mountain the head of q
Gauenche, which had eighty teeth,
and the body was not less than fifteen
feet long.
The giant Ferragus, slain by Or
landO, nephew to Charlemange, was
eighteen feet high.
RiOland, a celebrated anatOmist,
who wrote in 1914, says that, some
years before, there was to be seen In
the suburbs of st. German the tomb
of the giant IsOret who was twenty
feet high.
In ROuen, In 1909, In the digging
in the bitches near the DOminicans,
they found stone tomb containing
skeleton, whose skull contained a
bushel of corn, and whose shin-bone
reached up to the girdle of the tallest
man there, being about four feet long,
and consequently the body must have
been seventeen or eighteen feet high.
Upon the tomb was plate ofcopper,
whereupon was engraved, SIN this
tomb lies the noble and puissant
lord, the Chevalier Ricon de Vale
mont, and his bones" Platerus, O
famous physician, declares that he
saw at Lucerne the true human bones
of a subject which must have been at
least nineteen feet high.
Valence in Dauphin boasts of pos
sessing the bones Of the giant Bucart,
tyrant of the Vivarias, who was slain
by an arrow by the Count dc Cabillon,
his vassal. The Dominicans had a
part of the shin bone, with the artic-
ulation of the Knee, and his figure
painted in fresco, with an. inscription
showing that this giant was twenty
two and half feet high, and that his
bones were found in 1905, near the
banks of the MOrderi, a little river at
the foot of the mountain of Crussol,
upon which, tradition says, the giant
dwelt.
January IL, 1913, some masOns dig
ging near the ruins of u castle in Dau-
phine, in a field which by tradition
had long been called the Giants
Field, at the depth of eighteen feet
discovered a brick tomb thirty feet
long, twelve feet wide and eight feet
high, on which was a gray stone,
with the words TheutobOchus Rex
cut thereon. When the tomb was
opened they found human skeleton
entire-twenty-five feet and half
long, ten feet wide across tina Shout
ders, and five feet deep from the
breast-bOne to the back. His teeth
were about the size each of an ox's
foot, and the shin-bone measured four
feet.
Near Mezarino in Sicily, in 1916,
was found giant thirty feet high |;
his head was the size of hogshead,
and each of his teeth weighed five
ounces.
Near Palermo, in the valley Of
Mazara, in Sicily, a skeleton of a
giant thirty feet long was found in
the year 1913, and another of thirty
three feet high in 1850; and many
curious persons have preserved sew
eral of these gigantic bones.
The Athenians found near their
city two famous skeletons, one of
thirty-fOur and the other of thirty
six feet high.
At Totu, in Bohemia, in 75S, was
found skeleton, the head of which
could scarce be encompassed by the
arms of two men together, and whose
legs, which they still keep in the
castle Of that city, were twenty-six
feet long.
The skull of the giant found in
Macedonia, September, 1851, held 30
pounds of corn.
The celebrated Sir Hans Sloane,
who treated this matter very learned
ly, does not doubt these facts, but
thinks the bones were those OF ele-
plants, whales or other enormous
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 substitute
ed for the largest giants, have neither
arms nor legs and the head of that
animal has not the least resemblance
to that of a man. If it be true, there
fore, that a great number of the
gigantic bones which we have men,
toned have been seen by ANTAGONISTS,
and have by them been reputed real
human bones, the existence of giants
is proved.-Hdrper's Weekly.
A DETROIT newspaper tells this
little story: A boy about ten years
of age, leading a lively dog, called at
tho cor, troll citation apH osEpd if fhof