The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-03

In q memoir read before the Academy or
Sciences at Rouen, NJ LIE Cat gives the fol.
lowing account of giants that are said to have
existed in different ages: "Profane histori-
ans have given seven feet of height to Her
cules, the first hero, and in our day we have
seen men eight feet high. The giant who
was shown IN Rouen, IN 1884, measured eight
feet some inches. The emperor Maximinus
was of that size. Shenens and Platerus, ply
sicians of the last century, saw several OF that
statue, and Horepius saw girl who was ten
feet high. The body of Orestes, according to
the Greeks, was eleven feet and a half the
giant Galbara brought from Arabia to Rome,
under Claudius Cesar, was near ten feet high
and the bones of SecOndllla and Pusio, keep.
ers of the gardens of Sallust, were but SIX in
ches shorter Funnam, Scotchman, who
lived in the time of Eugene H., king of Scot.
land, measured eleven feet and a half; and
Jacob LIE Marie, in his voyage to the Straits
of Magellan, reports that on the seventeenth
of December, 1915, they found at Fort Desire
several graves covered with stones, and hav-
ing the curiosity to remove the stones, they
discovered human skeletons ten and eleven
feet long. The Chevaller Scory, IN his voy-
age to the Peak Of Tenerffe, says they found
in one of the sepulchral caveIns in that noun
tam the head OF a gaunche, which had eighty
teeth and that the body was not less than fiji
Orlando, nephew of Charlemagne, was eigh-
teen feet high Roland n celebrated anato-
mist who wrote in 1914, says some years be
fore there was to be seen in the suburbs Of
st. GERMAN, the lomb of the great giant Is
oret, who was twenty feet high. In Rouen,
il 1900, IN digging in the bitches near the
Dominicans, they found stone tomb con-
tanning skeleton, whose skull held bushel
of corn, and whose SHIN bone reached up toI
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 of cop
per, whereon was engraved In this tomb
lies the noble and pulssant lord, the Chevalier,
Ricon de Gallemont and his bones.' Platter
us, a famous physician, declares that he saw
at Lucerne the body of a man which must
have been at least nineteen feet high. Val
lance of Dauphiny boasts of possessing the
bones OF the giant Bucart, iyrant of The vi
varies, who was slain with an arrow by the
count de Cabllion, his vassal The DOmini-
cans had part of the shin bone, with the ar
uculation of his knee, and his figure painted
in tresco, with an inscription showing that
this giant was twenty-five and half feet
high, and that his bones were found in 1905,
near the banks of the Morderl, a little river
near the foot of the mountain of Crusal, upon
winch tradition saysl the giant dwelt
The Emperor of Brazil, who Is at present
travelling in Egypt, met with disagrceabe
adventure the other day IN Cairo. His Maj
esty is very fond of donkey riding, and one
morning, having descended into the street in
a jacket and small cap, with light switch
under his arm, mounted one OF these little an
finals and trotted off on an expedition through
a labyrinth of back streets. On returning
c1,tt,rr N lrhf
donkey IN front of the hotel he pulled 1t up
n few hundred yards from the building, and
not having any small change" in his pocket,
gave the donkey driver guinea instead OF /
plastre. The donkey driver, however, bad
never before seen a coin OF this nature, anG
looking first at the guinea and then at the
Emperor, came 10 the conclusion that the ,
guinea was merely worthless counter, and .
that an attempt was being made 10 chisel' |
him. The row he made was terrific; rushing
after the Emperor, who had walked of at a
rapid pace toward the hotci where his suite
were anyiouslv awaiting him, the donkey .
driver assailed his Majesty with all the most .
horrible oaths in the Arab vocabulary. The .
Emneror, who does not understand a single /
word of Arabic, but saw that the man was Ia. .
boring under a mlsapprehenslon, endeavOred .
in yam 10 explain TO him that the coin was
cold and not copper. In the meantime other
donkey drivers hurried TO the spot and TAX
ing the part OF their mate, followed the En-.
peror with a storm of imprecations Thus
surrounded by a mob of donkeys and their .
drivers. the haplcss Dom Pedro at last reach.
ed his hotel. where the whole affair was ex-
planned, and the donkey drivers, discovering /
the true state of the case, miraculously disap-
reared in the twlnkling of an eye.
The largest bell IN the world is at Moscow,
and weighs $4,000 pounds. II was never
hung, because 10 supports strong enough TO i
hold II could be devised. 1t is now used as
chapel. Moscow also boasts the second lar
gest bell in the world, weighing $4,000
pounds, but this fell in 1855. Pekin comes
third with a bell Weighing 1900 pounds,
and then-though at huge lnterval-Paris
with $4,000 pounds, the weight of the bell al
Noire Dame. Big Ben," IN London, comes
fifth, with 500 0 pounds.
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