The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

those accurately and scientifically meas
ured the list is surprisingly strong Toni
nard measured the tallest man in the Aus
tlan army and found that he was feet
4l2 inches, DR.. George u. Gould and DR..
walter l.. Pyle in their Interesting work
on the anomalies and curiosities of medt-
cine state that the German giant Winck-
elmeyer measured feet inches In hight.
Ranke measured Marianne Wehde. who
was born in Germany in the present CEN
curry ana found her to be feet AZ inches
when only Is and "A half years old In
giants, as rule The great stature Is due
TO excessive growth of the lower extrem-
ties the size of the head and that of
the trunk being nearly the same as those
OF a man or boy of the same age Giant
wilkins IS an exception to this rule His
head and limbs are in true proportion to
his gigantic hight.
The last century was prolific in giants
Edmund Malone was said to have meas
ured feet inches. Wiersk a Polander
was feet high There died in 1898 a clerk
Of the Bank Of England who was said to
nave been nearly 7l5 feet high. The London
Daily Advertiser for Feb. 23 l745, says
there was young Colossus exhibited op-
posite the Mansion house who although
but 10 years old, was Z feet high. John Mid
dleton, whose portrait Is now in Brasenose
college, oxford. was feet inches tall.
In l7l2 there died in a village of Holland a
was feet high and weighed 500 pounds.
About 1921 there was issued an engraving
OF Angelina Melins, IS years of age and 7
feet high, attended by her page. Senior
Santos, from the island Of Manila, IS years
old, and feet inches high. The Annual
Register records the death of Peter Tuch-
an az PosenM June 49, 1926, of dropsy of
the chest. 1Fwas 20 years old and feet
inches high. DR.. Adam Clarke, who died
in 1892 measured a man feet inches tall
Frank auckland in his "Curiosities of Ma
tural History" says that Brice the French
giant was feet inches. Robert Hale
the Norfolk giant who died at Yarmouth
in 1873 az the age of 43 was feet 6 inches
high and weighed 4j2 pounds. The skele-
ton Of Cornelius McGrath, now preserved
I'm the Trinity college museum at Dublin,
measures feet 10 inches
O'Brien. the Irish giant, at the time Of
his death in 1888, at the age of %, was
feet inches in hight John Hunter, a
distinguished scientist of the time, wor-
ried OBrien considerably by vowing that
he would have the latters skeleton mount
ed for his study The giant was literally
bounded by the savant, who never lost
sight of him. When O'Brien came to his
deathbed. he bribed some fishermen to
take his body after his death to the mid
die of the Irish Channel and sink it with
leaden weights. Hunter, It Is alleged was
Informed of this and over-bribed the pros
pectiVe undertakers. and thus secured the
body. The skeleton, together with the
huge kettle in which the bones were boil
ed, Is preserved among other Hunterian
relics in the museum of the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons in London. Patrick Cot
ter who succeeded to O'Brien title of
the Irish giant, was feet inches tall
at his death in 1906. Chang the Chinese
giant who has been exhibited in this city.
was feet tall. In 1865, at the age of 49,
he measured z feet inches. At Hawick.
Scotland in 1870, there was a giant feet
8 inches in hight 81 inches around the
chest who weighed p stone. Leah "the
skeleton giantess" who has frequently
been exhibited In this city, is feet 2
inches tall and weighs 165 pounds. Capt,
Martin Van Buren, Bates, who was born
in Whitesburg. KY, on Nov. g. 1876 is.
feet 2l2 inches tall. He enlisted in the
southern army in 1861, and, although only
16 years old was admitted on account Of
his size. While in England in 1871 Capt
Bates met Anna Swan, known as the Nova
Scotia giantess. Miss Swami was proud
of her hight. feet 5la inches. The cou-
pie fell in love and were soon afterward
married. They now reside in Guilford,
Medina county, Ohio
Nearly all Of the modern giants men
toned nave made capital out of their UNI
common proportion. The pages of history
include the names of sovereigns, war
riors and other notables who were men
of extraordinary stature, among them
William of Scotland, Edward III, Code
troy Of Bouillon, Philip The Long, Fair
fax, Morcey MOrtier, Kleber, Rochester
the favorite of Charles Il; Pothier, the
jurist; Bank the English naturalist Gall,
Brillat-Savarin. Benjamin Constant, the
painter; David Bellart the geograp her:
Delamarche and Care, abe founder of the
Gentlemans Magazine. But none of them.
potentate or professional has equaled the
inches Of Lewis wilkins, the latter day
Colossus.
IF he has manager up to date he will
appear in a play of Jack, the Giant
Killer" or Jack and the Beanstalk,"
and like John l.. Sullivan and James Cor
bett add to the dignity of the American
drama.
--Jasper-Wel there is one thing that