Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1870 — The Cardiff Giant. [ARTICLE]

The Cardiff Giant.

llis feet are swelling rapidly, but his intellect is unimpaired. In a fconversation with him yesterday he expressed a regret that he had been dug up at all. The novelty of travel has ceased, and his only prayer is, “ give us rest.” Time, and in fact everything else about him, hangs heavy on his hands. The show business is wearing on him. He rolled over a little on one side to show us where it had worn .on him. It was humiliating to him, he said, to leave a world of full grown men, and then, after the expiration of only a thousand years or so, come back and find the human race reduced to dwarfs—to be picked at by pigmies. lie spoke of his travels; said that he felt deeply humiliated in Chicago because there wore so many more hardened men what let was. He laughed at the pifttense of a Chicago stone cutter that he cut him out of gypsum. lie was cut out once—but ho was “ cut out" of his girj, Wc might not believe it, he said, but, hard as he now is, he was once “soft” on the girl question. “ Th'e first man who came to see me in Chicago,” continued Mr. Cardiff, shifting his position a little to rest the tub he was lying in, “ was a Chicago lawyer. He wanted to know if domestic infelicity brought me there. “1 told him no, I was brought there by Colonel Wood. “ Then he wanted to know if I lived unhappily with Mrs. Cardiff—said if I did, and wanted a divorce, he would leave no stone unturned until I got one. I thanked him, and told him Mrs. C. was all right. She was at home carrying on the petrification business during my absence.” When he was in Cleveland he tried some *of the Cleveland whisky. He felt as though his inside was eaten away worse than his outside was. At Columbus one-half of the people who came to see him fell to peeking him. He understood it when informed that the Penitentiary was Jqoatqd there. They were so used to ptcfciM they couldn’t avoid It when opportunity offered. Mr. Cardiff wasn't prepared to say how he liked Cincinnati; hadn’t been here long enough to form an opinion. He regretted that Hine’s “’sleeping beauty” was here at the same time. If he had known that estimable young lady was coming he would have kept away. He believed in people in the same line of business not interfering with each other. He wouldn’t attempt any rivalry with her, not if he nude it. To a casual remark that he would find the weather very hot here, he remarked that he expected it—he came dressed expressly for hot weather, and in fact had a trunk full of just such clothes as we saw hip l in. He said he could spruce up as "♦relFis anybody when he wanted to. He holds himself subject to the ‘“code,” and if any one feels aggrieved at any thing they have said about him they can always find him in his office by paying a quarter off a dollar at the door. — Cincinnati Times.