THE BIGGEST MAN IN AUSTRALIA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1267, 20 November 1884, Page 3

THE BIGGEST MAN IN AUSTRALIA.

Mr Thomas D. Jennings, for whom it is claimed that be is the biggest man in Australia, keeps the Harvest Home Inn on the New Town road, about a mile and a half from the centre of Hobart. He is sft lOin high, weighs stone, measures 68in round the chest, 82in round the waist, aud round the calf. He is perfectly healthy, and boasts that he has never taken a dose of physic in his life, Mr Jennings was originally a stiongly built man, and measured 40in round the waist when he was 29 years of age, but be did not begin to pot on much flesh till he was about 40. He is now 60, having been born in Yorkshire in 1824. The oddest thing is, he says, that he never realises the idea that he is unlike other people, and when he sees them staring at him it makes him laugh. He does not walk much, though he can do so, he says, “ as well as any man,” so he uses a pouy-chaise, which is rather rough oh the pony, The subject of this extraordinary development is extremely temperate, eats only two meals a day, and. drinks very little. Drinking, he says, reduces his bulk, but he cannot stand it. At the Theatre Royal in Hobart they -have to open both folding doors to let him into the stalls, and by the fact of the doors being opened the pablic know he is coming to the theatre. Mr Thomas intends to get married again, and is by no means worried about his age, which he carries remarkably well, being indeed the only instance of a fat roan who has preserved his health and his bulk together.