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, The fortnightly meeting M the Society for /h 6 lfkir 6 rLeUry' fi y office, Cuswas held in. tne evenine, the presitos §10 . Mrt and Co G. Win- ; d ? Wellin E ton Woollen Co. Staple* and rn £1 J. Chambers and SonB: ins. cu. «£h lira liinirard. Kcnipthorne. Prosßer Le Gme Co.; ss„ Mrs. Marmont. | Signor Giolitti will be" the tallest of ' present- day Premiers, for he stands . abou'i: six feet high, and still ca jne9 HTmself erect. In this he differs from Gladstone, who as a septuagenarian-was quife as vigorous ft 9 the Italian statesman, but had lost some of his height.. When he was 73 he told Sir Algernon Weo!: -"As a boy I iras remarkably short,, and my-greatest ambition—a, very moderate one* —wo 9to be five feet high when I was fourteen years old. But, to my intense distress, on my fourteenth birtihday I was only i feet 10V inches, most of my growth being after I was six•teen. Now lam shorter than I was as a young man." Eight years before hi.q deatli Gladstone stated that ho was then five feet nine', but had been (ive feet eleven. -• Ward Hunt, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer for a brief spell under nisraeli,. appears to hare been the tallest Cabinet Minister on record. Tic sfiood 0 feet 4 inches, and weighed 20 stone. When he knelt to kiw hands on. taking office one of his colleagues noted that even on his knees Hunt was taller than Queen Victoria. ■ — 1 i 1 - 1 ""