The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-10-06
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1as being over 8 feet. 1t We c0nhne
ourselves to those accurately and
scientifically measured the list is sur
prisingly strong. Topinard measured
the tallest man in the Austrian army
and found that he was 8 feet 4 l-2
inches. DR.. George U. Gould and
DR.. Walter L. Pyle, in their interest
ing work Oh the anomalies and curiosi
ties of medicine, state that the Ger
man giant Winckelmeyer measured S
feet 6 inches in height Ranke meas
ured Marianne Wehde, who was born
in Germany in the present century,
and found her to be s feet 1-2 inches
when only 1912 years old. In giants,
as rule, the great stature is due to
excessive growth of the lower extremi.
ties, the size of the head and that Of
the trunk being nearly the same as
those Of man or boy of the same aye.
Giant Wilkins is an exception to this
rule. His head and limbs are in true
proportion to his gigantic height.
The last century was prolific in
giants. Edmund Malone was said to
have measured Z feet 7 inches.
Wierski, a Polander, was 8 feet high.
There died in 1898 clerk of the Bank
of England who was said to have been
nearly7 1-2 fe.. high. The London
Daily Advertiser for February %,
1745, says there was young Colossus
exhibited opposite the Mansion House,
who, although but is years old, was Z
feet high. John Middleton, whose
portrait is now in Brasenose College,
Oxford, was 8 feet 3 inches tall. In
l712 there died in village of Holland
fisherman named Gerritt Bastiansen
who was 8 feet high and weighed 500
pounds. About 1872 there was issued
an engraving Of Angelina Melins, 19
years Of age and feet high, attended
by her page, Senor Santos, from the
island of Manila, 35 years old, and 2
feet 2 inches high. The Annual Reg
lister records the death of Peter
Tuchan at Posen on June 1S, 1925, of
dropsy of the chest. He was 29 years
old and 8 feet 6 inches high. DR..
Adam Clarke, who died in 1882, meas
ured man s feet 6 inches tall. Frank
Buckland in his "Curiosities Of Nat
ural History" says that Brice, the
French giant, was Z feet 7 inches.
Robert Hale, the Norfolk giant, who
died at Yarmouth in 1S43 at the age
of 49, was z feet 6 inches high and
weighed 455 pounds. The skeleton Of
Cornelius McGrath, now preserved in
the Trinity College Museum at Dub
liz, measures 7 feet 10 inches.
O'Brieu, tha--Irish giant, at the
Siaep Of his death in<i1F93, at the age
Of az, Tas=s feet inches m-height.
John Hunter, distinguished scien-'
tist of the time, worried~Q,Brien con:
siderably by vowing that he>%ould
have the latter's skeleton mounted
for his study. The giant was literally
bounded by the sayant, who never lost
sight of him. When O'Brien came to
his deathbed he bribed some fisher
men to take his body after his death
to the middle Of the Irish Channel and
sink it with leaden weights. Hunter,
it is alleged, was Informed of this,
and over-bribed the prospective un-
dertakers and thus secured the body.
The skeleton, together with the huge
kettle in which the bones were boiled,
is preserved among other HunterriiaaI
relics in the MppsseeaamG~of OF the Royal
College Of Surgeons in London. Pat
rick Cotter, who succeeded to
O'Brien's title of the Irish giant, was
8 feet inches tall at his death in
1906. Chang, the Chinese giant, who
has been exhibited in this city, was s
feet tall. In 1866, at the age Of l9,
he measured Z feet 8 inches. At
Hawick, Scotland, in 1870, there was
giant Z feet 8 inches in height, So
inches around the chest, who weighed
20 stone. Leah, "the skeleton gian-
tees" who has frequently been exhib-
tied in this city, is 7 feet 2 inches tall
and weighs 165 pounds. Capt. Mar
tin Van Buren Bates, who was born
in Whitesburg, KY, on November 8,
1915, is feet 2 1-2 inches tall: He
enlisted in the Southern army in 1861,
and, although only 16-years old, was
admitted on account of his size.