THE COMING GIANT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 269, 1 July 1880, Page 3

THE COMING GIANT.

, Much interest has been excited in Brooklyn, New York, by a young giant, named Jack Shields, who has lately been engaged for exhibition at a Museum in that place. Shields is « Texas boy, eigteen years old, is present little more than 7ft. in height, but he is in training to be the “ giant of the future,” and that he will beat any giant ever exhibited. He comes of gigantic proportions. His father, a farmer in Texas, is 7ft high, and bis brothers and sisters are of like proportions, but they have done growing. An agent who was lately scouring the country in search of giants came upon the Shields family, and at once saw that he had a treasure in Ja* k, whos services he secured with some difficulty. The agent set forth

the other day to a reporter of the New York papers the difficulties attending - on “ licking a giant into shape,” as illus tinted by Shields. “We are,” he said, *’ training him to be a giant, and we think that he will grow the tallest man in the lm aness. Ho needs watching. Having been accustomed all his life to, lower himself to t Ik to his companions and to allow his arms to hang loosely by his side, and to spread out his legs, he is yet raw and awkward f r the giant business ; but now he is getting to hold up his head keei his feet together, and throw his shoulders back, to keep hiniself in shape, to ta*e flesh and get more height.”