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Show I Men of Ancient Times B Recent Discoveries Prove Them To Be Of M Giantic Height and Immense Proportions. M Wahiiinoton, May .1. That .the H human race lias degenerated In sl.c as H well as longevity Is a fact well attest- H cd by arlous authorities. A promt- H nent Washington physician who has H made a life study of brain and core- H bral development says that, in visit- H Ing the catacombs of l'.irls, what H struck him most In those vast rcpcsl- H torlcs of the contents of the city's H ancient giavcvards was the slc of the H skulls In comparison with those of H more modern mankind. Thlssuperlo- H rity of development In the men who H lived a'thousaud jears or more ago the H scientist attributes to the open-air H llfo then In vogue and the physical H spo'ts and exercises Indulged In H There arc several laces of giants mentioned In the Illblc and the (ircck H and Koman historians have recorded ' many .examples which serve to show H that these specimens of elongated H humanity were by no means lare at H one period of the world's history. H Thus, it Is mentioned that the Km- Hj pcror Maximilian was H feet some Inches high. The body of Orestes, ac- cording to the Greeks, vvas 11 feet In height, the giant .(ialbora, brought fiom Ababia to Home under Claudius ', Caesar, measured near 20 feet, and the B ' bones of Secondllla and 1'usio, keepers B of the gardens of Sallusl, were but H six Inches shorter. H Barbarians Probably Larger. B The probability Is that outside of H cultivated Gieeco and Home, among B the semlb.u b.irians of the greater part of present da Luiopciu nations H physical development reached often H to more wondrous pioportlons H The Chevalier Scory, In Ids voyage H to the peak of TenerilTe, sajslhat they found, In one of the sepulchral caverns of that mountain, the head of a Gucnchc which had eighty teeth and that the body was not less than 15 feet long. The giant Fciragus, slain by Orlando nephew of Charlemagne, Charle-magne, was IX feet high. Itcvland, a eclcDratcd anatomist, who wrote In hill, saving that some years before that time there was to be seen In the suburbs of St. Germane the tomb of the giant Isoret, who was U0 feet high. Atltouen, l.V)!), in digging In the ditches near the Domlnlcamo, there was found a stone tomb containing a skeleton whose skull held a bushel of corn find whose shlubonc reuv'ied up to the girdle of the tallest man there, being about four feet long, and consequently con-sequently the body must have been seventeen or eighteen feet high. Upon Up-on the tomb was a plate of copper, upon which was engraved' "In this tomb lies the noble and puissant lord, the Chevalier Ittion De Vallemout, and his bones '" Ancient Armor is Evidence. There Is, Indeed, evidence In the ponderous armor and two handed swords which remain In museums to prove that the knight of the ages of chivalry was an heroic specimen of human archltcctuie. IMaterlns, a famous phjsiclan, declared de-clared that he saw tit Lucerne the true human bones of a subject which must have been at least nineteen feet high. Valance, In Dauphlne, boasts of possessing the bones of the giant liueart, tvrant of the Vlvaris. who was slain by an arrow bv the Count De Cablllon, his vassal. The Dominicans Domini-cans had a part of his shlubonc, with the attlciilation of the knee, and his figure painted in fresco with an inscription in-scription showing that this giant was twenty-two and a half feet high, and that Ills bones were found In 1705 near the banks of the Moderl, a little river at the foot of the mountain of Crusol. upon which (tradition says) the giant dwelt. On .Ian. 11, ltli:i, some masons digging dig-ging near the ruins of a castle In Dauphlne, In a locality which had long been known as the giant's Held, at the depth of eighteen feet discovered discov-ered a brick tomb thirty feet long, twelve feet wide and eight feet high, on which was a grpy stone with the words "Thcotobochus Hex" cut thereon, there-on, When the tomb was opened they found a human wkclcton entire, twenty-live and one-half feet long, ten feet wide across the shoulders and live feet deep from the breastbone to the back. The teeth were each about the size of an ox's foot and his shlnbonc measures four feet. Other Monsters of Humanity. Near Margarlno, In Slcllv, In lMO, was found a giant thirty feet high. Ills head was the slc of a hogshead and each of his teeth weighed live ounces Near Palermo, in the valley of Ma-gaia, Ma-gaia, In Sicily, a skeleton of a giant thirty feet long was found In the )c,ir liiis and another thirtv-thrce feet high in l.V)0. Several of the gigantic bones of the latter subject arc still preserved by private persons In Italy The Athenians found thirty-two famous skeletons, one thirty-four and another thirty-six feet In height. AtTotlc, In Bohemia, In 175S, was found a skeleton, the head of which could scarcely be encompassed by the arms of two men together, and whose legs, which arc still preserved In the castle of the city, vveie twentj-s!x feet long. The skull of the giant found In Macedonia September, lihil, hcld'Jlol pounds of corn. The celebrated English scientist, Sir IlansSloanc, who treated the matter mat-ter learnedly, does not doubt the facts above narrated, but thinks the bones were those of elephants, whales or othci animals. Hut it has been well remarked that, while elephant's bones may be shown for those of 'giants to supeillclal observers, this can never impose upon such distinguished anatomists ana-tomists as have testified in many cases to the mammoth bones being unmistakably unmis-takably human. |
