Show alib I 1 Cardiff Giants I 1 iff Brother Broth br kansas kanasa but it was not of his lecture that the inquisitor desired to talk it was the recently discovered stone man with a petrified tall tail he jumped straight to the suba subject bet bythe abrupt question quest ion ibn I 1 mr barnum is that pueblo petri petrifaction fiction wreal a real resl solid bona fide stone man or is it another another cardiff Glant giant esi 1 I believe it to bojuso be just what it is represented to be if it I 1 had not I 1 would not have offered mr conant for it V lid did you re really alf y oten offer the owner t that amount af 0 f money for boril fo rit ril it 1 af I dimand did and aud he refused it but he offered to sell aitto me and retain one fourth interest in ila it c so you feel assured A mr ir barnum that this new discovery is what it i is s cl claimed almed to be a real petrified man noll gnoj wont say that itis lilaa it laa is isa a pet petrified ir nuen an but it is aman a man or beast 4 U solid stone i I 1 feel assured of this because in the ecca ca or resurrection of the corpse the head was broken from the shoulders and there as large as life was the spine and other bones as natural as life oh no sir air I 1 am satisfied that this is no cardiff giant affair 1 how does it goow look well sir it is a well defined human body petrified into solid atone the most sin pin singular gular guiar part about it is its tall which is well defined and unmistakably a part of the body which is about eight feet in length perhaps it is a petrified gorrilla M mr r barnum interrupted the interested te news gatherer no ho hd I 1 do not think BO so the cheek bone sare high and projecting like the indian and the formation of hand hande and feet in dacate that it is not of the monkey species iwhite doyan do you think itlie well sir air it is rhy thy my candid opinion discovery we wo have bave found the missing link N which darwin I 1 claims connected mankind with the beast creation it is Js certainly the petrified body of a man with a atall tali tail and was du dug up by an named vy y A 0 pueblo Is it a reliable party mr barnum perhaps it is a put up job on you and the public yes he is reliable he is a respectable spec table old mani man and andis 49 an agent for the Atchis Atchi soni sori topeka bunts fe railroad he was once a member of the legislature abd and andis Is much respected in colorado where he has lived several years he says say he will not pot sell the petrifaction 1 on until it has been examined x mined by prof Mar shor pr some e other com eom competent detent auth authority erny erAy 1 do you propose buying I 1 it f mr barnum no I 1 have fiade my rier offer i and it hasl himi been leen en beje rejected eted and ii ail all 11 ll negotiations tiati bri ons between mr con ton been broken off I 1 offered forthe the body bub gub but was ras vas refused 7 11 rt II I I aecil deell declined ned nea taking a part interest estin in it le I 1 will have no partners in such auch matters the denver tribune of friday has this cosay to say of the bla bia gla glant giant it is generally conceded io to bea hea be a piece plede of statuary and thel question to be decided Is fi whether it was wa manufactured by the aztec indians qi or by some of the member and aud promoters of our own elv civilization professor semper says that th the e heads head la very similar to the heads of all the figures of the aztec indians but both he hd a anu and ald dr denison believe that it could have recently been beem manufacture dand subjected to acid treatment that aou would ld make inake it look u as it now does dods professor Semper believes it to have been made of prepared clay blay but let the giant be what he may a petrified nied fied human bunian body an aztec statue or an american fraud he will certainly remain a great c curiosity U rio sity and is likly to receive his due ali all bhare share a re of attention al from public |