Show THE TALLEST BOY the biggest boy for or hit his age in the whole world lives at oxford warren county N J ills ill name Is edward he Is 16 years old and his hi height Is already 9 feet 2 inches anchet without his hi shoes it he should keep on growing at the ordinary rate from now until he IS if 20 years old le would then be over seven feet in height he believes believe that when he reaches that age he will stand land 6 fully 7 feet 4 inches it Is 1 usually the case when phenomenal grow growth th takes take place in childhood the subject ll Is physically a weakling the tremendous train strain upon the vitality resulting from such unusual growth generally enfeebles the system it amounts to a disease and Is ii to so begir d by physicians however has hag never r seen een tick sick day in all his hl 16 years he is as a strong and healthy as a a young animal and has hai in an appetite appet tte commensurate to hit his size just at present he weight weighs pound and Is if gaining at the rate of about a pound a week he Is not at all ill III proportioned and it to Is only in the boyishness of his face that hh lack of years yean Is noticeable he has the stride and carriage usually in a man at the age at t which such height and weight are not extraordinary this phenomenon in the way of growth li Is the youngest young etl of a family of eight children every one of his brothers and sisters are of good height per bright and wealtny heal tny none of them have developed any signs of anything abnormal and they look upon their mg big brother with as much astonishment as Is felt by strangers this extraordinary youth Is 1 to his hl fathers gratification well fitted to perform the work of a stout farmhand farmland far in every particular there Is no one in the neighbourhood neighbour hood who can beat him pitching hay and when it comes come to breaking a horse hone his strength makes him a master hand in fact most of the tasks that are considered onerous because of the strength required to perform them are childs play to this overgrown boy ordinarily boys who groupp grow in this way feel abashed at their own bigness and rather III at ease but says cays that the only sensation which has tin pressed itself upon him in any way Is surprise I 1 even as a baby he was usually large by the time he had reached the age of 5 years he was as tall and well formed as the he ordinary boy of 8 and at TO 10 he had attained the growth and general appearance of a boy of 16 mentally he Is all that could be expected of a boy of his age he Is a good student and his has made the most of his rather limited opportunities for education he says fri indeed deed that he proposes to educate himself according to his size and if he should do this there is no question of his becoming a learned man the question of a calling in life Is not bothering at all he says he was born a farmer and a farmer he will remain nothing else has any attraction tor for him whatever he seems to have an inborn love tor for the soil various efforts have been made to induce the boy to become a museum attraction but quite apart from the tact fact that his hl parents object he Is himself strongly opposed to anything of the sort 1 I do not know he said why I 1 should exhibit to other people just because I 1 have grown more than most people make me a freak why should people want to pay money to see a tall boy it if anybody wants to took look at me let him come down to oxford where I 1 live and I 1 will stand up and tie he can look till hele he is tired I 1 dont see any reason why I 1 be allowed to stay at home like other people unless however nature presently calls a halt new jersey bids fair to I 1 furnish the legitimate successor to chang the chinese glant giant and the late lamented captain bates |