Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — HE IS STILL BOSS. [ARTICLE]

HE IS STILL BOSS.

Cher* Have Been Many Giant*, bat Chang Is the Tallest Sow Living. Turner the naturalist, declared that he once saw, upon the coast of Brazil, a race of gigantic savages, one of whom was 12 feet in height. M. Thevet, of France, in his description of America, published at Paris In 157&•, asserted that he saw and measured the skeleton of a South American which was 11 feet 2 inches in length. The Chinese are said to claim that in. the last century there were men in their country who measured 15 feet in height. Josephine mentioned the case of a Jew who was 10 feet 2 inches in height. Pliny tells of an Arabian giant, Gabara, 9 feet 9 inches, the tallest man in the days of Claudius. John Middletown, horn at Hale, in Lancashire, in the time of James L, was 9 feet 3 inches in height; his hand was 17 inches long and 8$ inches broad, says Dr. Platt, in his “History of Staffordshire. ” The Irish giant, Murphy,, contemporary with O’Brien, was 8 feet 10 inches. A skeleton in the Museum of Trinity College, Dublin, is 8 feet 6 inches in height, and that of Charles Byrne, in the museum of the College of Surgeons, London, is 8 feet 4 inches. The tallest living man is Chang-tu-Sing, the Chinese giant. His height is 7 feet 3 inches.—Tid-Bits.