The New York herald., 1922-11-05
By CLARA VIRGINIA LEONARD.

as the giant Kazanhoff. a Siberian
by birth. who was publicly exhibited in
Hungary a few months ago. after which
he returned with his parents to his native
land to engage in farm work"
The Budapest correspondent of the
Journal of the American Medical Society
gives the following description of him:
He is thirty-four years of age. his
height Is nine feet three inches. and he
is built In proportion to his height. Thus.
his hand is one foot and one inch from
finger tip to wrist; his foot is one foot
nine inches long: his chest measurement
is ffty-six inches; she circumference Of
his head twenty-five inches and his weight
is 45S pounds
To support his huge frame he eats an
amount that would satisfy four others of
good appetite. In four meals in the course
Of the day he consumes four or five pints
of milk. from fifteen to twenty eggs, three
or four pounds of meat. five or six loaves
of bread. large quantities of potatoes. beans
= and other vegetables. from five to six pints
of wine and four or five Iiters of beer
These quantities appear to be well at
tested. as do the measurements of his
proportions; but the fact that arrests at
tention particularly in the account of the
giants habits is the enormous amount of
sleep he needs. Normally he passes a large
part of the time in slumber, and has been
known to sleep twenty-four hours Even
when awake his movements are slow and
deliberate, and he is inclined to doze off
when left alone. the only stimulus to ex-
ertion being the cravings of hunger. which
are said to be acute"
Biblical and classical writer's tell US that
in the early history OF the world men of
prodtgious size and proportions lived. not
singly or in small groups but as nations;
the earliest record being found in the book
Of Genesis, where il is said. There were
giants in those days" meaning before the
/ food
In view Of the gigantic size Of extinct
mammOths that roamed the earth in pre-
historic times. OF which we have every
proof in the mounted skeletons In our
museums it does not seem unreasonable
to suppose that men attained the height
/ of ten. twelve and even fifteen feet. but to
believe that they exceeded that by hun
tdreds OF feet. as recorded and believed by
Plutarch. Piiny and other classical writer's,
Gems absurd. Thus we are told that the
giant POlyphemus, measuring 500 feet I'm
length. was found at Trapan. Sicily in the
fourteenth century. where others of equal
length were subsequently exhumed. Piu-
tarch says the grave Of Antaus. in the city
of fungus. was opened by Serboneus. and
finding there his body fun sixty cubits
long. he was infinitely astonished and or
deTed the tomb to be closed. gave con-
hrmation to the story and added new
hOnOrs to the memory OF this giant"
Passing a giant whose bones were ex-
posed BY the action of the Rhone In 1856"
says one writer. 'and whose height was
estimated at thirty feet. and another whose
skeleton was exhumed at Lucerne in 1877
who. according 70 the learned physician
Platter. did not exceed nineteen feet. we
come TO the case OF King Teucobochus
whose remains were found In 1913 by
surgeon named Masurier. whose Historic
Teritable dH GeGnt Teucobochus 1s1s)
gave rise to a warm controversy" The
somb. which bore the inscription. "Teuco-
Sbochus Rex" is said to have been thirty
feet long
Pliny. the celebrated Roman author and
naturalist. relates that an earthquake un-
covered the skeleton of a man forty cubits