A Russian Giant.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 794, 10 April 1905, Page 4

A Russian Giant.

,o " The. biggest man oyer seen" is if the official"de!<crir/tir>n -of Feodor e Machiiirii-, the Russian giant who is now exhibiting his huge proportions « at the London llipprodroiue, Feodor •, is 9 feet 8 inches in height, and •, weighsu 33 stone, and is by n-o means ;. badly built. He has a 60 inch chest, tl his waist measures 35 inches and it his thigh 40 inches, whilst his feet require boots two feet long and i, broad in proportion, his hand gloves v would be size 30 compared with ti those of a normal man, and his s head a hat nearly a yard round ine side- the crown. Certainly the Met roll polis has seen nothing to equal Ic Feodo». The ill-bniltj. half-dead look- :. ing Joscl Winkelmaier, who visit*! 1 us in 1887, ceuld only boast of 8 feet 9 inches, and though then s still growing, he paid Nature's debt » before he achieved nine fc?t. The v once-famous Chang, who visited vh 1, forty years ago, was only an eight footer, and Charles Byrne. whose ,- skeleton adorns the museum of the 1 Koyal College of Surgeons, is creditt cd with ' having, been Bft 4 in in t his soc'ts. The tallest man that bis-. f tpry credits to Christian", people was John Jliddleton, who was born in i 3578, and is said to have reached ' the height of a feet 3 inches. To all . these Feodor can give.inrhes, and a ' lien ting, but even he is tt i„id"vt 1 compare:! to Og, King of Hashun, c who is biblically credit ( .. : l with a 1 stature of 9 .cubit*-thnl, is Hi iVeti- of Goliath of Oath, whose hair was i- 11 feet from ' the ground, when he stood upright. These people, however, I-codor'a friends refer to as

I'' mythical." There is mothing inyI tliical about the Ildssian giant, as those who have the feeding o! himcan testify. ! For breakfast he discusses a couple of <|iuarts of milk, a dozen eggs, ; aiv.l two and a half (juarter.v-lyuvos; at lunch he is content with two or three pounds of potatoes, and a quart or so of boar ; but at dinner be disposes of'from Hire? t> five pounds of ine.it,. with vegeLaWes, a {■oaf of bread and half a gallon of 'ale, whilst supper .means to him the 'demolition of ten or a dozen eggs, supplemeniUd Ijy .« lu-oporl'u.niii' allowance of bread and butter, half a pound o'l' cheese and a quart of tea or cocoa. His tailor's bi'l-f, if he goes in for an extensive wardrobe.. I will come to a pretty figure, for in 'a single suit for Feodor there is enjough cloth to make suits for live ordinary men. I Feodor,. who is l said to be fail 1 y intelligent, is a native of Tcharkov, on- the borders of Persia. .'le is L'll years of ago, and possesses ,i wife . of normal' size and a baby that .talZea alter its mother in this ve- , >pecti. "Whilst in London, the giant r will, of course, be unmiir.-d in the , jHippodrome. Ho must not lake '. I walks -a:b;road, because that would . .ruin his value, and the onlv closed ; carriage in which he can' dispose hi.s limbs in, comfort is a panyeohni- , con van. It was in one of these , that ho made his joiirnt-y from Vic- ' toria Station to the Hippodrome on 1 his'arrival in London. t On the whole one feels no parlicu,B lar envy at tke :lot of this moilern ~ Quinbus Plestrin, the '.' great man mountain" of ''Gulliver's Travels'\ j. Times', correspondent.

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