The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-12-09
THE BIGGEST MEN.

1t would be interesting to know if
such thing were possible how often
the biggest boy in SCHOOL, grows up
TO be ''biggest man." There is an
appalling suddenness in the way in
which giants appear in our midst
nowadays. Ofcourse this appearance
is often made under the auspices of a
curio lecturer, but that is very diff
ferent thing from running across a
seven-footer on the street unawares.
The biggest man in the world, ac-
cording to the authorities in Brobdig-
nag, is an American, John Craig, of
Danville, Indiana, who weighs 1913
pounds, and is often seen by the dozen
sojourners in that peaceful little Will
age, wheeling his siX-months old baby
along the street in a perambulator.
This procession of Craig Junior and
Senior illustrates one of the remark
able qualities of the contemporary
giant-he is neither the father nor
the son of giants. John Craig, Jr., of
Danville is not above the average
size of children OF his age, and it is
said that this fact causes his father
much secret sorrow.
The biggest man in New York, and
in other respects one of the most in
teresting. is John A. Seaton, the col
ored Waterman in the Equitable
building on Lower Broadway. Mr..
Seaton is six feet seven and one-half
inches in height, and is so symmetri
cally proportional that his 2S7 pounds
give him, if anything, a statuesque,
not to say, slender appearance He is
quiet and unobtrusive in his de-
meanor and partakes of that good ma
ture which is said to be characteristic
of giants. That is, giants of to-day
in old times the giants seemed to
spend the most of their time roaming
with large clubs through the dense
forest, in u terrible bad humor, and
hungering greatly after human blood.
Mr.. Seaton has just been baptized in
the Mt. Olivet church, in West Fifty
eighth street, New York. The font is
only five feet square and four deep,
but so de1terously was the immersion
performed that it is said not drop
overlooked.
The biggest dentist in the world,
who is in all probability the most gil
gantic professional man of the time,
and who is said by people who ought
to know to be by all odds the biggest
man in Paris, was observed not long
ago strolling along Fifth avenue in
New York He is DR.. g. G.. Daboll,
who used to live in Buffalo, bat emf
e ated to the French capital, fired by
the brilliant professional success Of
DR.. Evans, who is said to have put
gold into half the crowned heads in
Europe. 1t has not yet been said of
Dr. Daboll that che holds everybody's
jaw but his own" although that I'M
kind remark was made of the very
clever little dentist who holds Uncle
Sans Consular appointment to the
Chinese port of Annoy. 1t Is darkly
whispered about the Paris boulevards
that DIR. Daboll does not need forceps
to pull teeth with, but is able to seize
the offending molar between his fin
gers and thumb and Gexterously lift
it from its sockets. This may be only
q canard. But it is matter of his
tory that DIR. Daboll was once sent for
from Paris to come to Washington
and give dental attention to a Presi-
dent of the United States. He is six
feet ten inches high and remarkably
broad shouldered for his height.
One of the tallest men in this coun-
try, and until further evidence, the
tallest, is James Murphy, of Bridge
Creek, Colquitt county, Ga, common
ly known as Big Foot jim He
stands seven feet high in his stocking
feet and weighs 260 pounds Mr..
Murphy wears No. Is shoe, and, as
he is said to have a will of his own,
no doubt accomplishes something
when he puts his foot down.