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THE GIANTS OF OLD
ANCIENT RACES MARVELS OF PHYS
ICAL DEVELOPMENT.
Fhr Sc mIhn rimrIn of One Thousand
Tnri Alto Were All llrmarliahly
Proportioned Vlrn— Tin* Glnnta of
Anolrnt flrcrrr noit llomr.
That the liiimnn race has degener
ated in slr.e ns well iih longevity Is n
fact well nili'Kii'il I>y various authori
ties. A prominent Washington pliysl
flan who linn made n 11 ft? Htwly of
hruln and cerehrul doveloptnentN, hii.vm
llmt, on visiting lilt* (•nlnconilm of Pur
ls, what struck him most in IIiokp vast
repositories of the contents of the
city’s ancient graveyards was the
(treat size of the skulls In comparison
with those of more modern iiiunklnd.
This superiority of development In the
incii who lived 1,0011 years or more ago
the scientist atlrlhutes to the open nlr
life then In vogue and the physical
sports and exercises Indulged in.
There are several races of giants
mentioned in the itllile, and tin- (Ireek
and Koninn historians have rneortlcd
many examples which serve to show
llial these specimens of elongated ho
miuilt.i were h.v no means rare at one
period of the world's history.
'I’lius H Is mentioned that the Emper-
or Maxlmlaii was eight feel some Inch
es high The hotly of Orestes, accord
Ing to the tireclts, was eleven and a
half feel In height, the giant tlalliol'fl,
brought from Aralila lo Home under
« la iid In-< l 'ae-or, measured near ten
feet, and the hones of Hccondllln and
Puslo, keepers of the gardens of Sal
lust, were lull six Inches shorter.
The prohahlllty Is that outside of eul
tinned (tl'eeee anil Home among the
seinlharharous of the greater part of
present day Kuropean nations physical
development reached often to more
v omlrous proport ions.
I The < hevilller Henry In Ills voyage lo
the peak ol Tenerife says that they
found In one of the sepulchral caverns
iif that iiiouulaln the head of a
(Juanche which had eighty teeth and
that tin* hody was uoi less than fifteen
feet long. The giant Kerragus. slain
liy Orlando, nephew of Charlemagne,
was eighteen feet high.
Itevland. a celebrated anatomist who
wrote In Pill, says that some years
tie fore that time there was to ho seen
In the suhurhs of St. Uormntio the
tomb of the giant Isoret, who was
twenty feet high.
At Itimen In IfitH), In digging In the
ditches near the Domlnleamo, there
was found a stone tomb containing a
skeleton whose shin bone reached tip
to the girdle of the tallest man there,
ticlng about four feet long, and conse
quently the body must have been sev
enteen or eighteen feet high Upon the
tomb was a plate of copper upon which
was engraved, "In this tomb lies the
nolde and puissant lord, the Chevalier
Ituou de Vallemolit, and Ids hones."
There Is, Indeed, evidence In the pon
derous armor and two handed swords
which remain to us In museums to
prove that the knight of the ages of
chlvlary was a heroic specimen of hu
man architecture.
Platerlns, a famous physician, de
clared that he saw at l/Uearne the true
human hones of a subject who must
have Ismmi at least nineteen feet high.
Valance. In Ihtupbluc, boasts of pos
sessing the hones of the giant liuearl,
tyrant of the Vlvarals, who was slain
by an arrow by the Count do Cahlllon,
Ids vassal. The Dominicans had a part
of Ids sldn hone, with the articulation
of tne knee, and Ids figure paluted In
fresco, with an Inscription showing
that lids giant was twenty two and
one hall feet high and that Ids hones
were found In lido near the hanks of
the Moderl, a little river at the foot of
the mountain of (Tusol. upon which
(tradition says) the giant dwelt.
on .Ian. II, liskl, some masons dig
ging near the ruins of a castle In
Dauphiue, in a locality which had long
boon known as the (Pant's Held, at the
depth of eighteen feet discovered a
brick tomb thirty feet long, twelve
fool widi* and eight feet high, on which
was a gray stone, with the words
'•Theotohochus Hex" cut thereon.
When the tomb was opened they found
a human skeleton, entire, twenty live
and one half loot long, ten foot wine
across the shoulders and live feet deep
from the breastbone to the back. The
teeth Mere each about the size of an
ox's fool, ami Ids sldn bone measured
four feet.
Near Margarine, In Sicily, in lfild,
was found a giant thirty feet high.
His head was the size of a hogshead,
ami each of his teeth weighed live
ounces.
Near Palermo, in the valley of Ma
gma. In Sicily, a skeleton of a giant
thirty feet long was found In the year
IMS and another thirty-three feet high
in loot). Several of the gigantic bones
of the latter subject uro still preserved
by private tiersons in Italy.
The Athenians found thirty-two fa
mous skeletons, one thirty-four and
another thirty-six feet in height.
At Toth*. In Hohomla, in 758, was
found a skeleton the head of which
could scarcely he encompassed by the
arms of two men together and whose
legs, which arc still preserved In the
castle of the city, were twenty-six feet
long
The celebrated English scientist. Sli
Hans Hlonne. who treated the matter
very learnedly, does not doubt the
facts above narrated, hut thinks the
bones were those of elephants, u hales
or other animals. But it has been well
remarked that, while elephants' hones
may la* shown for those of giants to
superficial observers, this can never
Impose upon such distinguished anat
omists as hn\e instilled in many cases
to tile mammoth hones being unmis
takably human.- Philadelphia Record.
He patient with every one. hut above
»ill with yourself.—Francis.
PIANO EXPERIMENTS.
Plarlnir hr Hirffpln* the String*
With a Feather.
Open wide your piano so that the
wires are exposed. Over the wires
place slipets of music, and when you
•trike a tone you will find thnt It has
a rattling sound. If now you play a
tune In the same manner, with the
aheets of music still lying on the
strings, It will sound as If the lnstru- i
ment were n banjo. Anyhow, It Is a
good Imitation.
Now remove the music sheets and
press down gently, but tirmly, the
keys belonging to any cord. Take the
simple cord B, (1, for example.
The keys must la* pressed down with
out sounding them nnd held down
while some one gently brushes the
strings with a feather or a straw. The
effect will be iih If (lie cord were play
ed far away and Is heard by you ns
very soft tones.
change the coni, always pressing
down the keys without sounding them,
while the feather still sweeps the
strings lightly. In this way you may
modulate or play a slow piece, and the
effect will lie very beautiful, Indeed, ns
If heard from a great distance.
The reason of this is that ordinarily
a damper rests against each string,
lint when the corresponding key Is
struck or pressed down the damper Is
raised. In sweeping the strings with
tin* feather lightly, only the strings
that are uiidniupereil sound, tin* others
being held limit* by tin* dampers, but
If the Hutch of the feather Is too heavy
even the other strings may Hound, so
your care iiiusl ho In making a light
and delicate touch.
Now press down a key gently and
hold It. Strike very hard the octave
above this key, lint do not hold It after
striking Ho* lone. W hen the wlro of
the loin* struck has been siitllclently
dampen'd, so that It doi*s not sound so
loud, the pressed down key will lit*
heard to "Hing" clearly, even though
It Mas not Strunk. Tills is heenttso
every note struck Is composed of sev
eral miles, being In reality a cord In
Itself, and each note contained In that
cord causes the corresponding note In
the keyboard to vibrate, or "sing." In
sympathy If hold down In like tnnn-
ner.
The oilier notes that will sound under
these conditions will nlwnys he the
fifth above the octavo, the second oc
tave and the third and fifth above that,
and these tones that sound are called
"overt om*s."
For Illustration, If C In the lower
part of the piano he struck, any or nil
of the notes Hint follow will sound If
their keys are tlrst pressed nnd held
down. I'lillndelphls Press.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
When you are all done hut flnlshlng,
you are Just half done.
If you have time to boast about be
ing worked to death, you have not
much to do.
Home people are so unfortunate Hint
their troubles make people laugh In
stead of cry.
A man who underestimates himself
may lie tiresome, hut he Is not a cir
cumstance to the man who brags.
People may disdain n compliment,
hut they feel a tender little spot In
them where It lilt and refused to lie
dislodged.
It Is a theory growing In conviction
that the man who says a mean thing
about another Isn't ns mean as the man
who carries It.
The man who travels over the path
behind you wisely looks at your foot
prints and sees M'liere you could have
avoided many a pitfall. — Atchison
Globe.
Tiny Tree*.
The midget of the whole tree family
In llii* (treeiiland birch. It Is a perfect
tree hi every sense of that term and
lives Its allotted number of years from
To to 130 Just ns other species of the
great birch famllj do, although Its
height under the most favorable condl
tions seldom exceeds ten Indies. Whole
blurt's of the east and southeast coast
of (ireciilaiid are covered with "thick
ets" of this diminutive species of
Moody plant, and tu many places
m here the soil Is uncommonly poor and
frozen from eight to ten months a year
a "forest" of these trees will flourish
for half a century without growing to
a height exceeding four inches.
StrniiKc Hit net'*.
Queensland's government aboriginal
settlement on Frazer's Island holds a
weekly dance for the blacks. Among
the bundles of old clothes sent to tho
settlement there are often ball gowns,
so the gins sport decollete dresses.
Neither sex wears hoots. The sexes
have to dance separately.—Sydney Bul
letin.
Shrewd Onraa.
Senior Partner—We must tic careful
not to give Billings any more credit
He’s evidently losing money. Junior
Partner—IIow do you know? Senior
Partner—l heard tils remark today tliut
“life Is full of ups and downs." No
man ever admits that until he begins
to strike the down.—Philadelphia Press.
Rejected.
"I have called," said the confident
young man, with a manuscript sticking
out of his pocket, "to see whether there
is a vacancy in this office.”
"No." replied the melancholy editor
as lie looked round the place; "I'm sor
ry to say there Is none. Even the
waste paper basket is full.”
A Cliungp,
"Well. M'ell! There goes Miss Strong
When 1 saw her last she was posing
as a bachelor girl. That's her hobby.”
"All that’s changed now. She drop
ped her hobby for a hubby." — Ex
change.
A MASCULINE FAILING AS OUR ancestors ate.
MAN'S TROUBLES WITH HOME ANNI
VERSARY DATES.
The Male Creatare’e Peralateat Abil
ity tn Foraet the Kay* Upon Which
Important Kventa, Includlus Brea
HI* Wediltnt, Took Place.
It Is one of the misfortune* of the
average man that he cannot remember
anniversaries. He can remember with
out difficulty tho dates of his vurious
board meetings, the price of stocks, the
amount of money he loses at "bridge.”
the price of his wife’s lust bonnet hut
two -everything, in fact, except the
day upon which he became engaged or
even, worse still, the one upon which
he married. And there Is none of his
foibles which make him so unpopular
Ht home as this one.
A man is sometimes born unpopular,
nnd sometimes he hits unpopularity
thrust upon him, hut if he wants to
achieve unpopularity with a hound Just
let him forget the* dale of Ills wedding
day and allow Ills wife to find it out.
We know a man who Is occasionally
greeted upon his return from business
by Ills wife dressed In her best gown,
with a rose In her hair and a smile on
her lips.
The iiiaii is nhvnys courteous, and so
lie greets Ills better half kindly, even
while he asks in a tone of distant dis
approval, "Are we going anywhere to
night, dear?"
“(ioing anywhere!" says that Indy.
"No; don't you is it possible you don't
remember what today Is?"
The culprit makes a valiant effort to
recollect, lie runs tils lingers through
tils hull* and assumes a thoughtful look,
lie knits Ills brows anil bites Ills lips,
and In* is painfully aware all Hie time
Hint Ills wife Is growing more and more
rigid and more and more sorry thnt slu*
Inis assumed her best gown for an oc
casion that is so little appreciated.
"I know It Isn't our wedding anni
versary," says the lipnd of tho house
presently and pleasantly, "for we wore
married in the spring. I am sure wo
xven*. for you wore some sort of white
thing. It was very pretty," he ndda
hastily. Immediately aware that the at
moaphere has grown even cooler with
bin remarks.
"I wore u gray going away gown,"
says hla wife Icily, “and nothing white
at all."
"It Isn’t the anniversary of our en
gagement.” goes on tho blundering
masculine, "for you told me lust year
that cutne lome time In June.”
His wife absently takes the flower
out of her hair and crushes it.
“Tell me what It Is," commands the
tnan Impatiently. "I'll never guess It
by myself."
Ills wife lends the wny Into the li
brary with an nlr. "It's not of the
slightest consequence of course,” she
snys bitterly. “I was very foolish to
remember It myself, but somehow I
did. It has been four years today since
I met you at Mrs. Blank's theater
party, nnd you ant next to me during
the perform a lice of ‘Romeo and Juliet'
nnd hiilil that so long as you lived you
would never forget that night nor tho
privilege that had been yours on thnt
occasion.”
It would be n very hardened criminal
who would not bo howled out by tills
naive recital, and the man In the case
Is properly contrite and writes the date
down in his pockotbook so that lie will
have it for next year, hut he never by
any elm lice remembers It thou, and
about the same scene will lie gone over
ngaln.
Tho woman who cannot recollect that
Columbus discovered America In 1-1112
or that the civil M'ar was begun In 18(51
can remember M'lthout difficulty the
day and date upon which she met her
husband, tin* day he first brought her
a hunch of violets, the first time he
took her to the theater and the play
they saw, the moment when I e began
to look upon her as something more
than an attractive girl, the time he
asked her to marry him, M'lmt lie said,
M'hat she said, what hour of the day it
Mils and what she laid on. As for the
wedding day, each detail of It is as
plain to her half a century later as if
It had been yesterday.
Then she gets raging mad because
her beloved cannot follow her In her
(lights of fancy.
Once there mus a man M'lio never re
membered until he was reminded thnt
the anniversary of his wedding day
had rolled around again, lie found
that Ills misconduct greatly hurt the
feelings of his wife, and so one year
he resolved to make a great mental
effort and he the first to speak of the
occasion.
lie made the effort, lie bought his
wife a superb purse, and he lmd It
marked with her initials In gold and
then lusido the flap was the date—Oct.
0, 1808.
And was tils M-ifc pleased at this
delicate compliment?
Not she.
"It's lovely,” she said, "but what Is It
for? The date, I mean.”
"For?" asked the man mildly. “Why,
for our wedding day. Don't you re
member we wore married on Oct. 0,
tsos?”
Ills wife smiled a sad, soft smile.
"It was very sweet of you. dear-
very sweet," she murmured nnd her
tone was the more sorrowful than
angry, “but as it happens mo were
married on Nov. 20. I don't know the
date you have there at all.”
The man was awfully embarrassed,
and he never told his wife, for there
were limits to her patience, that he
finally recalled the fact that on Oct. <>.
ISOS, he had formed a business partner
ship which had ended disastrously.—
Baltimore News.
Meal* Which In Rnnntltr Wo*M
Ainaie Modern Diner*.
He was a florid man with a pleasing
plumpness of person and possessing
what Shakespeare calls "a fair round
belly with good capon lined." lie sat
In a restaurant anil discoursed of eat-,
Ing In this wise:
“People are writing am) [(reaching
nowadays all the time about the (lun
ger of overeating. Why, bless my stars
anil gurters, we do not begin to eat as
our ancestors did! What are our puny
little snacks of kickshaws compared
with the Gnrgnntuun feasts to which
our great-grandfathers — yes, and our
grandfathers, too, for that matter—sat
down? Their hearty breakfasts of
meat, eggs and often beer to wash It
down; their great midday dinners M’lth
roasts of all sorts in ahundaucennd pud
dings and vegetables in profusion, and
their suppers of cold meats, perhaps a
chicken, cakes to beut the band and
preserves and pies and things indi
gestible generally, often topping off
before they went to bed with u panful
of apples and a pitcher of cider! Oh,
they wore eaters, If you like! And be
tween meals how they did pitch Into
cheese and doughnuts and anything
else that came handy!
“These were our grandfathers and
some of ,,tir fathers. Going a little far
ther hack, see that 'curious document
d(*scrlptlve of manners in the last cen
tury,' to which Thackeray ulludes In
his English humorists. Here Is what
seven of ’em ate at Lady Smart's din
ner: A sirloin of I a fish and a
tongue. Then canto almond pudding,
fritters, chickens, black pudding and
soup. The third course consisted of a
hot venison pasty or made pie, a hare,
a rabbit, some pigeons, partridges, a
goose and u ham. Then they topped
off with cheese and drunk during the
meal claret, ale, brandy and tea. They
sat nt table four or five hours to get
away with this meal and afterwurd
drank port nnd played curds until 3
o'clock In the morning.
"That was the way our great-grand
fathers ate and their futhers before
them ate, If they could afford It, and
If they could not they made up In
quantity what wus lacking In variety
and quality. But, why bloas you,
child, wo modern men do not know
what eating Is. Perhaps, though, If
oar ancestors had (lone lesa eating and
drinking we might he able to do more
of It without the aid of dyspepsia tab
lets. Then, again, they did not know
how to adulternto food In those golden
days of gastronomy. However, I am
a believer In hearty eating If a person
can stund It. Ah, here comes my dou
ble sirloin steak with fried onions.
Doesn't that smell nice?"—New York
Fress.
InafnlooM Wood Rata.
The wood rat of the western slopes
of Cascade range Is a curious creature
that loves to steal ho well thnt it Is
known to many as the camp robber.
It carries off anything it can lay its
lips to and is besides a Jolly, reckless
fellow. It does things which rodents
uro not given to doing. It will take
knives, forks and tin plates, cartridges,
cups and anything It can handle In the
line of clothing, towels or gun rags,
which make soft linings for its nest.
It Is related how n pair of these rats
staked off a elaim on top of a hunter's
camp stove and put up the most curi
ous rat house anybody over heard of.
About 200 yards away was a railway
shanty, where tho section men kept
their supplies, and among other things
was a keg of railroad spikes such us
are used to fasten the rails to the
ties. The rats took some spikes to
their claim, built up an iron wall and
lined the interior with soft stuff. It
Is a curious fact that all the points of
the spikes were directed outward, anil
they More laid with great regularity
and firmness.—Exchange.
Of a mistaken philanthropist Jerrold
said he was "so benevolent, so merci
ful. a man lie would have held an um
brella over a duck in a shower of rain.”
When It It a I li nil Stone* IVleven liny*.
There are hundreds of M’ell authenti
cated accounts of stones falling from
the skies, from the mysterious regions
of the great sea of space, hut such
"falls" have usually been singly or, at
tho most, in small showers. Accord
ing to a legend told by the Arabs of
the Sahara, there mus a time In that
portion of the dark continent when
pebbles nnd fine sand literally rained
from above for several days, covering
the earth to a depth of many feet. In
fact, they claim that the great desert
did not exist prior to the time when
tills great shower of aerolites came. In
Jenckyn’s "Trip to Ye Burning Sandes
of Africk" the following is told under
the head "Another of God's Wonders:”
"Moreover, the natives of these parts
say that it once rained small stones
and sandes for a period of eleven days
nnd nights. Much fertile land and
many towns and thousands of animals
nnd human beings were thus hurled
up."
Rlftlit Kind of Reading.
The right kind of rending—what a
wonderful influence it has upon tho
destiny of men! It lias dragged genius
fortli from hidden places. It has given
those with a talent a commanding
view of tho world's opportunities. Ma
caulay fully recognized the potency of
good literature nnd its splendid possi
bilities as a factor in human achieve
ment and human happiness. To such
of it as brought a ray of sunshine into
lonely lives and enlightened the bur
den of mankind he paid the following
tribute:
“Where literature consoles sorrow or
assuages pain, wherever It brings glad
ness to the eyes which fail with wake
fulness and tears and ache for the dark
house and long sleep, there Is exhibited
in its noblest form the immortal influ
ence of Athens."
Good literature has opeued mauy a
pathway through a wilderness of ob
stacles. Its companionship is worth
persistent cultivation.—Catholic Home
Companion.
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