Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-05-18
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- rHE GlASYs, HONE.
Where Captain and Mrs. N. v. Bates
Find Room and Comfort.


Find Room and Comfort.
| leTRIEnsaane |ssy sa,k saa0 "
| Captain and Mrs. Bates, the giant
couple, are in a certain sense, the
most prominent people lin Ohio.
They are pretty sure to bevery prom
inent wherever they are. The cap
tain once went bathing off the Jersey
coast, aud he says the fishermen. put
out in boats to harpecA hin becaasIl
they thought he was a whale. Blu,
this may be a fish story. They GER
tainly form pne Of. The. highest geo.
graphical points in the neighborhood
of their home at Seville, Ohio. Mrs.
Bates is atrife higher, but as height
is d touchy point with giants, she out
of delicate feeling for the captain,
rarely refers to this fact, or else at
tributes tito her coiffnfe I'll w
sfheif home at Seville Is the place
for which they long when they are
on their travels. ..1..x-ss r,axwas
1t is not Surprising chat persons
nearly eight feet tall and broad ir
proportion, do not find a berth in 6
sleeping car srfficiently roomy or fee
quite safe at table d'hotel on cane
bottom chars. Therefore it is thai
theI splits ] rise when homewart
bound.
| AS they pass through the door o.
the railroad car at their home station
they stoop for the last time befnrs
they again 60 travelling. A coacl
drawn by eight stout Norman hofse.
is in waiting. It. is about as broad
as the roadway, and the wheels; ar
about as large as those On the pom
derous wagons used to haul grant,
or marble shafts. When they ar,
comfortably seated the coachim1a1
cracks his whip and the vehicle goe
numbering along toward the giants
house, little way from town. Othe
drivers on the road, seeing the equip
age coming: take down the fence rail
and drive in the adjoining fields unit
the enormous vehicle has passed.
4 An immense stone building loom
up, and soon the carriage is prlle'
. upins front OF the entrance.' If al
ordinary-sized person is with tn
giants they give him a boost or tw
up the steps. Then they pass state
ly and erect through door ten fee
high. The head Of a person Of me
dunn height would about reach th
door-knob- They enter asspaeiou
hall, and go from there to- a parle
with doors also ten feet high, an
windows in proportion The chail
i, are SO large that ordinary mortals hay
|, to climb into them as babies have
climb into their high chairs.
In the sitting-room the piano is I'll
!. only piece of furniture of ordinar
size, but it is mounted on bloch
about three feet high, so that the Ike
board is up in the air. Thus Il
;, giants manage to escape annoyant
from visitors with musical procliv
!. ties.
In this room are two hugesockir
chairs. In one of them til eapta
deposits his 47S pounds, and placid
;. contemplates his wife sewing Il
" seams of many yards of silk for
,. new dress with regulation train: e
the table is large album containi1
photographs of hundreds of fello,
curiosities-bearded women, tw
y headed and four-legged wome
giants, dwarfs, living skeletons al
the like, all of whom the compal
know intimately. .5s-.
Next to this room, in which th'
take their meals, is their bed-roor
r. The bedroom, which is the smalle
a. of the rooms, contains "a bed ten fe
Is long and broad in proportion. The
e1 is also a bureau with glass as lar
g as the wall of an ordinary room.
st All the furniture is of mahogal
10 and highly finished, the giants ha
spared no expense.
,r Visitors quarters are up stail
il where the rooms and furniture are
d ordinary size, as is also the dim
y service, for the giants are not lar
lr eaters.
F. The farm comprises 160 acres
le cultivated land, and the captain tax
d great pleasure ins~basying hims'
'g around the place. He is respect
,e in the neighborhood, and noted I
lg his courtesy and generosity. -~<
g The dead bodies of Lieut..
Ill Long and ten Of the@Jeannette Pol
'e expedition have been recovere
- They were found by the fungus
: the delta. This accounts for elev
l. of the crew of the boat that DeLo
y took away from the Jeanette, a
ie three are still to be found. Lie
" Chipp and seven menswho went
lin the third boat are still 10
Whether they ,have~been swallox
=. up by the. sea, or whether they
y, now lying stark and dead on the fr
III en- shore Of Siberia,--is a probl
y which may never be solved. i
i search parties will new concentr
their energies on the fading of Chi
aS and 1t Is to-be hopedthat their !effe
NC will be crowned with success. -
al, "Granpa, does hens make their Q
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