Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1903 — Facts About Giants. [ARTICLE]

Facts About Giants.

"That very few of the giants who lave ever lived have been healthy or .well formed recent researches prove hhcyond a doubt. All we know about «dollath Is that he was very tall, but in "the second book of Kings we read about another giant, who had more Angers than an ordinary human being, and, according to modern scientists,' ’ this Is Invariably a token of degenera<jy. Marcel Donnal saw at Milan a giant who was so tall that his body fl|»ed two beds at night, but whose were so weak that he could hardly stand upright. William Evans, the gigantic porter of Charles 1., had little strength, and Cromwell’s porter, another giant, ended bis days in a lunatic Finally, O’Brien, the Irish giant, has been described as “an enormous sick child who grew up too fast.”