Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1877 — A Chinese Giant. [ARTICLE]

A Chinese Giant.

Fourth. We entered the store-room where he hold* his levees last evening, fqliy«persuaded to meet wftlr a 'hmirbug. -We left firmly impressed with thf fapfcihat we had met with one showman who did not exaggerate in annoilncenteriv of -his exhibition. The giant a shrewd, good-natured and rather dignified Chinaman, who has donned a mandarin’s costume and site in a chair large enough for a summer-house. He is toe yfl°#' inas ' sive man ever seen in this city. A largehanded man cannot encircle his wrist with one hand, and two of the giant’s fingers make an ordinary hand stretch to encircle them. A man five feet eight inches esn stand, erect qndsr,,hte outstretched arm ana not touch it' with his head. Ordinary mpn have to tilt (heir bats upon the organ of philoprogenitiveness and look upward .to his face as Chicago grain-buyere|do to Hoosier teamsters. He stands seven feet nine inches high, and elaims that he weighs four hundred and twelve pounds. He is a finely-propor-tioned man. not at all corpulent—is, indeed, hard-muscled and compact in frame, and moves with the ease of ordinary pen. Sacramento (Gal.) Record Ifinion.