| Show aen NIEN ARE GROWING SHORTER french savant years ago gave out in formation that adam was feet 9 inches tall in recent years anatomists have shown in a practical way that the height of a man or woman can be increased to a considerable extent by appliances ances for stretching these extensions however have only been of 0 inches or fractions of an inch and ami giants have not been nor are they likely to be developed by artificial means it wits was a french savant named Ilen rion who years ago gave to the world authoritative statements as to the height eight h of adam and eve he ha said that the father of the race was 11 feet 9 inches high arid and eve feet 9 inches he noted that from the creation of these enlarged editions of 0 humanity degener degeneration atlon had been rapid that noah was only 27 abraham only 20 and moses but 13 feet in height according to this french authority if the christian dispensation had not arrested this decrease man by this time years ago would have been a mere micro microscopic object and we may conclude that by our time he would not have been at all al henrion did not give any explanation as to height of those ancients perhaps the most gigantic gag title story on record Is that concerning an immense skeleton said to have been in sicily which measured SW feet in length this story however carries its own refutation as it Is said that found beside this giant was his walking stick which was 30 feet long iong and thick as a telegraph pole A clever calculator made the estimate that it ft walking stick only SO 30 feitlin feet in length for a man who measured feet would be as ridiculous as one of seven laches inches for a man maa of ordinary stature ata ture kans kansas as city journal |
