Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-05-04
rom phil.delphia Times of April 2e.

| rom Phiadelphia Times Of April 26.
In the Main Building ofthe Centen-
| lial Exhibition one of the first things
that catches the eve upon entering is q
| colossal statue whose huge dimensions
ncwilder the sight and make dizzy the
brain as it attempts to compass its tow.
ring height which, in its imposing
massiveness, compels all preconceived
,ances of fabIed genii and Legendary gil
| .nts to dwinde and shrink into insig-
| nifcance by the contrast Every one
who sees the statue is accust )med to
exclaim upon the ludicrousness of the
Comparisons it affords to other statues
aud living figures which on every side
| surround it
Yesterday morning, at eight O'Clock,
a close carriage drove up to the side
entrance of the Bingham House, from
which there was taken out what ap-
peared at first TO be second edition of
| the Centennial statue, except that this
second figure was that of mammoth
| Cbinaman, who lived and moved on
a pair of inconceivably long legs, in
| pepper-and-salt trousers, and with a
breadth of back and shoulders that
found difficulty in getting into the hotel
doorway, which feat he finally accom-
plished by low stoop, the upper part
of the door just grazing his back as he
did so.
As the colossal figure walked into the
Office the guests, who had been quietly
sitting on benches and chairs reading,
with one impulse sprang TO their feet,
and with faces the picture of speeches.
astonishment, looked up at him. Slow
ly and calmly, like towering pedestal,
he moved up to the Office counter, look
ing upon the gaping crowd below with
pair of quiet, dark eyes and reaching
out hand, which might have been at
distance mistaken for Webster's
Unabridged Dictionary, took the pen
which the clerk handed him and wrote
in the register, in plain, round hand,
Chang-yu-Sing; then below this, Pafn
Young.
This done he turned calmly around,
the top of his head almost grazing the
Office ceiling, and giving some instruc-
tions to 'Parn Young about the lug
gage Was escorted to the elevator,
| which he entered in the same manner
he had entered the hotel doorway-by
stooping-and seating himself on the
| groaning cushion was elevated to
room No. 24l, on the third floor, to
which place 'Parn Young and his lug
gage soon followed.
The colossal figure was Chang, the
Chinese Giant, whose form and figure
has been extensively represented on
hand-blls and posters on dead walls
and fences and in street cars and in
newspaper advertising columns by Mr..
BarDum's agents during the past few
weeks. These pictures represent him
about twice as tall as the average man.
For once the advertisement falls short
Of doing him justice. The effect upon
spectators as they enter his room and
he rises and stands before them in all
his towering height cannot be likencd
to anything else than the sensation pro-
duced hen one stands before the statue
in the Centennial Building. There is
one difference, however The statue is
inanimate; lifeless. Chang is an affa-
BILE, courteous, educated, gentlemanly
living creature with the best of man.
ners His right hand sparkles with five
huge diamond rings, one of them pres
ent from the Emperor of Austria, bear
ing the Imperial crest; another pres
ent from the late Emperor of Russia,
and the rest presents from mobiles and
people of different countries in the old
world which Chang has visited. He is
thorough scholar, speaking seven diff
ferent languages. among them the Eng
lish with the fuency of native. His
height is within four inches of nine feet;
his weight is exactly 364 pounds. He
is not feshy man as most giants are,
but spare in proportion to his build.
He has been in the show business for
twenty years and has seen all the coun-
tries of the world and all the noted
people. He is high-priced giant, be-
cause he is imposed upon everywhere.
To tailors he is prize, to landlords
terror. In New York he went to get
measured for a suit of clothes which at
the most extravagant calculation would
not have cost the most average man
over $50 but the tailor charged him
S1S5. In the same city, when he first
arrived there two months ago, his
agent procured board for him at down
town restaurant The proprietor made
him pay $4.75 for one meal and told
him, after he had paid his bill. that he
could not board him at that rate, as he
would break him up in month if he
attempted to do it. Subsequent nego-
tiations with the agent induced him to
take him at the rate of $500 a month,
but in three weeks time the proprietor
pleaded with the agent to be released
from the contract, as Chang was eating
him out of house and home.
Over indulgence in eating and drink
ing. whereby the Liver is disorganized,
and the system deranged The suffer-
ing resulting from dyspepsia is very
terrible, and the sooner the patient can
get relief the better. There is no REM
edy so effectual for the cure of this dis
ease as Simmons Liver Regulator
D. B. Dobson, M. D. of Deer Park, AL
ALBANIA, SAYS: Il have used the Regula-
tor for eight months, and find it has
cured me entirely of dyspepsia. 1t is
the best medicine ever used for that
disease, or, rather, it is the only one
that has proved satisfactory.
A letter has been received at the
Treasury Department from an enter
prising German citizen of New York
City offering the Government $4,000
for the privilege of running small
lunch counter and beer saloon in the
lobby of the Postoffice of that city. In
postscript he added that if his propo-
sition was entertained be would make