Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1859 — Giants. [ARTICLE]

Giants.

The bed of Og was twenty-seven feet j long and seven feet broad. The bight of Goliah was I 1 feet; his coat weighed 150 and his spear 19 pounds. The bodyofOresj tes, son of Agamemnon, leader of the Grc- ' cian expedition against Troy, was 111, feet high, and a woman 10 feet. Maximus, a native of Spain, the .Roman Emperor, was 9 feet high. Maximus originally from France, another Roman Emperor, was 81 feet iiiglu His wife’s- bracelets served him fur linger : rings. IJis strength was such that he could draw a loaded wagon, break a horse’s jaw with bis fist, crush the hardest stones with his finders,.and cleave trees with his hands. His Voracity was equal to ins.strength, eating 12 pdunds of flesh and drinking 19 bot- | ties of wine daily. Byrne and O’Brien, Irish giants, were 8 |eet high. A Tennes- ; see giant lately died, 7.j feet high, weighing j more than 1,000 pounds. The Kentucky giant was 7 feet 10 inches high. (y/7~Fe males are so scarce in some of the ■ interior towns of California that men have }to bo employed to do the chamber work. A female is no installed in “a place,” than she becomes involved in some matrimo- ' nial scheme.