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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. Newnan News The remaining eight months of this year 50 cents This liberal offer is made to new subscrib ers only, and is open until May 20th, 1906. The regular subscription price of THE NEWS is $1 per year, but this great offer affords the opportunity to get it 8 Months For 50c Ask for a sample copy of The News, ex amine it carefully, and see just what this extraordinary offer means. 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