Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1895 — How Big Was Adam? [ARTICLE]

How Big Was Adam?

Scribner's Magazine. There are hardly any truthful records of the gilints of tho past, though literature is full of wooderous tales about them. A French Academician. M. Heurion, once estimated the height of A dam to be 122 feet, and that of EvA 118. proportions that must have appeared most formidable to the serpent; and made the propose tion for apples seem a somewhat trivia! thing. The same authority brings Abraham down to twentyeight feet, and makes Moses only thirteen. Goliath's recorded height is, however, only nine feet nine inches, which is within the bounds of possibility. Pliny speaks of seeing giants ten feet two inches in height, and a skeleton seventy feet long. There are weird stories of the Emperor Maximilian, who was reputed to be ningj feet high. and tc liave eaten forty pounds of meat a day- ' - One can not get too much of a good thing. When it reaches too much it is no longer good. It isn't by external, but by internal applications that a woman can make herself the most beautiful. r