Show MEN ARE GROWING SHORTER I 1 I 1 french Savant Years ago gave out information format formation fon that adam was feet 9 inches tall in recent years anatomists havo shown la in a practical way that the height of a man or w woman 0 in a it can be increased to a i cons considerable Id erable extent by appliances ances for stretching these extensions however have only been of inches or fractions of an inch and giants haye ha ze not been nor are they likely tv be Q developed by artificial means it waa vi a french savant named henri lonrlon on who years ago gave to the wor world id authoritative statements as to the height of adam and eye eve he said that the father of the race was feet 9 inches high and eve feet 9 0 inches noted that from the tha creation of these enlarged editions of lu A it Z I 1 lon IX 2 b J M tl rapid that 96 a i 7 M SS bi only n lly 27 abra abraham only 20 and moses mosea but 13 feet in I 1 height t according to this french authority if the 66 christian dispensation had not arrested this decrease man by this time years ago would have been a mere microscopic object and we may conclude that by our time he would not have been nt all M henrion did not give any explanation as to height of those an ancients cleats perhaps the mos most t gigantic story on record Is that concerning an immense skeleton said to have been in sicily which measured feet in length this story however carries its own refutation as it la Is said that found be side this giant was his walking stick which mitch was 30 feet long and thick as a telegraph pole A clever calculator made the estimate that a walking stick only SO 30 feet in length for aman a man who measured feet would be as ridiculous as one of seven inches for a man of ordinary stature kansas city journal |