THE COMING GAINT.

Manawatu Herald, 15 June 1880, Page 3

THE COMING GAINT.

Much interest ihaabeei^xcited in Brooklyn, New'3sorir^ by a .young giant, by name Jack Shields, who has lately been exhibition at a museum in-rtbat place.; ■ Shields^ who is a Texas boy, eighteen years old,is at present little.tifdre' tha^i X ft' in height, but he is in 1 'training td be the " giant of the totore," and it is expected that h67^Ut «beat any giant ever exhibited. He comes of a family of gigantic proportions; -::His father, a farmer in Texas, is 7 ft high, aud his brothers and alters, are' 'of' like proportions, bul ! ''tltGT i '''Bave r> done growing. An agent wh6 was"' lately scouring the country in search* of giants came upon'uiA Smells' famii^ andjt once saw that he had found a treasure in Jack, -whose services he secured with some, difficulty. , ; TJiq agent set forth the other day to a reporter of one of the New York papers the difficulties attendant on ''licking a giant into shape,? >a» illustraled'by Shields. "We are," he said, tl train ing him to be a giant, and we' think that he will grow to be the tallest man in the business. He needs watching. Ha%iflg>-beefr scenstomed all his life to lower himself to talk co his companions, and to allow his arms to hang loosely b^ his side, arid 1 to spread out his legs, he is yet raw and awkward for the giant business ; but now he is getting to JiQkl/.his head up, keep Jus. feel. together, ant] throw bis shoulders back, to keep hiiusel&in shape, to take n"esh, and get more height." \ c • .■••:•'

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