Daily Republican., 1882-05-18
THE GIANTS IlO Ne.

Captain and Mrs. Bates, the giant
coupe, are in certain sense the most
prominent people in Ohio. They are
pretty sure to ba prominent wherever
they are. The Captain once vent III
bathing off the Jersey coast, and he
says the fishermen put otf in boats to
harpoon him because they thought he
was a whale. But this may be a fish
story. They certainly form the highest
geographical points in the neighbor-
hood OF their home at Seville, Ohio.
Mrs. Bates is q tritle the highest, but,
as height Is touchy point with giants,
she, out of delicate feeling for the Cap
tain, rare ly refers to this fact, or else
attributes it to her coitinre Their home
at Seville is the place for which they
long when they are on their travels.
1t is not surprising that persons
nearly eight feet tall and broad in pro-
portion do not ind (. berth in ii sleeping
car conveniently roomy or feel quite
safe at table d'hote on cane-bottom
chairs. Therefore it is that the spirits
rise when homeward bound. AS they
pass through the door of the railroad
car at their home station they stoop for
the last time before they again 80 trav.
cling.
A coach drawn by eight stout Nor
man horses is in waiting. 1t Is about
as broad as the roadway, ,and the wheels
are about as large as those on the pom.
derous wagons used to haul granite or
marble shafts. When they are com
fortably seated the ccachinan cracks
his whip, and the vehicle goes lumber
ing along toward the giants house a
little way out of the town. Other dri-
vers on the road, seeing the giants eqm-
page coming, take down the fence
rails and drive into the djoining fields
until the enormous vehicle would pass
them.
An immense stone building looms
up, aud soon the carriage is pulled up
in front of the entrance. If an ordinary
sized person is with the giants they
kindly give him boost or two up the
steps. Then they pass stately and erect
through hall ten feet high. The head
of person of medium height would
about reach to tbs door knob.
They enter d spacious hall, and 20
from there to a parlor with doors slso
ten feet high, and windows in proper
ton. The chairs are so large that ordi-
nary mortals have to climb into them
as babies have to climb into their high
chairs. In the sitting room the piano
Is the only piece OF furniture OF ordinary
size; but it is mounted upon blocks
about three feet high, 80 that the key
board is up in the air. Thus the giant
couple manage to escape annoyance from
visitors with musical proclivities.
In this room are two huge rocking
chairs. In one Of them the Captain de-
posits his AIS pounds, and placidly con-
templates his wife sewing the seams Of
many yards of silk for new dress
with regulation train. On the table is
of hundreds of fellow curiosities-
bearded women, two-headed and
four.1egged women, giants, dwarfs,
living skeletons, and the like all
of whom the couple knew intimately.
Next to this room, in which they
take their meals, is the bed room. The
bed room, which is the smallest of the
rooms, contains a bed ten feet long and
broad in proportion. There is also a
bureau with glass as large rs the
wall of an ordinary room. All the fur
niture is of mahogany and highly fin
ished, the giants having spared no ex-
pense.
Visitors quarters are up stairs, where
the rooms and furniture are of ordina-
ry size, as is also the dinner service, for
the giants are not large eaters. The
farm comprises 100 acres Of cultivated
land, and the Captain takes great
pleasure iu busying himself around the
place. He is respected in the neigh.
borhood, and noted for his courtesy and