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Show MEN ARE GROWING SHORTER French Savant Years Ago Gave Out l formation That Adam Was 123 Feet 9 Inches Tall. j In recent years anatomists ha, shown In a practical way that th height of a man or woman can be I ' creased to a considerable extent by art pliances for stretching. These exten slons, however, have only been of Inches or fractions of an Inch and giants have not been, nor are' to likely to be developed by artificS means. It was a French savant, named Uenrion, who, 200 years ago, gave to the world authoritative statements as to the height of Adam and Eve Ha Bald that the father of the race 123 feet 9 Inches high and Eve lis feet 9 inches. He noted that from the creation of these enlarged editions of humanity, degeneration had been rapid; that Noah was only 27 Abra ham only 20 and Moses but 13 'feet in height. 1 m According to this French authority If the Christian dispensation had not arrested this decrease, man by thla time 200 years ago would have been a mere microscopic object, and we maj conclude that by our time he would not have been at all. M. Uenrion did not give any explanation as to height of those ancients. Perhaps the most gigantic story on record Is that concerning an Immensi skeleton, said to have been in Sicily which measured 800 feet in length! This story, however, carries its own refutation, as it Is said that found be. side this giant was his walking stick, which was 30 feet long and thick as & telegraph pole. A clever calculator made the estimate that a walking stick only SO feet in length for a man who measured 300 feet would be as ridiculous ridicu-lous as one of seven Inches for a man of ordinary stature. Kansas City Journal. |