GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3500, 25 September 1882, Page 4

GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS.

J. H. Reichart of Friedburg, whose father and mother were both giants, was eight feet three inches in height. GHlly, a Swede, exhibited in the early part of the Nineteenth century, was eight feet high. Loushkin, the Russian giant, and drum-major of the Imperial Guards, measured eight feet five inches. Maximilian Miller, the Saxon giant, was eight feet; his hand measured twelve inches, and his forefinger was nine inches long. Among other giants in real life, but who are now dead, the following may be mentioned :—

Heinrich Osen, Norwegian 7 feet 6 inches Joseph Brice, English ... 7 feet 8 inches Cornelius Mngrath, Irish... 7 feet 8 inchee Edmund Mollon, Irish ... 7 feet 6 inches yam McDonald, Scotch ... 6 feet 10 inches James McDonald, Irish ... 7 feet 6 inches Louis, French ... ... 7 feet 6 inches HaroldHardrada,Norwegian 7 feet 9 inches Eleizeque, Spanish ... 7 feet 10 inches John Busby, English ... 7 feet 9 inches Bradley, English 7 feet 8 inches Henry Blacker, English ... 7 feet 4 inches Edward Bamford, Irish ... 7 feet 4 inches Alice Gordon ,English ... 7 feet Robert Hale, English ... 7 feet 6 inches La Pierre, Danish... ... 7 feet 1 inch Salmeron, Mexican ... 7 feet 4 inches Miles Darden, N. Carolina 7 feet 6 inches Chang, the Chinese giant, is 7 feet 6 inches high. James Gilbert a mulatto of Chatham, N. C, who travels with Barnum's show, is 7 feet. Undoubtedly the most wonderful of living giants is Captain Bates, the Kentuckian, who now resides on a farm near Seville, Ohio, when he is not on exhibition ; and Mrs Bates is the most colossal of the giantesses. The Captain is thirty-four years of age, weighs 526 pounds, is 7 feet 11 inches high, measures 70 inches around the chest, and wears a No. 10 hat, a 30-inch collar and al7 boot. Mrs Bates turns the scales at 480 pounds, is thirty-one years old and as tall as her husband, and sports silk dresses, of 80 yards apiece.