GIANTS IN A CONTEST CHICAGO SAID TO HAVE THE B:C. CEST POLICEMAN ON EARTH. Up IS Six feet Tiiroo Inchrs Tall nail WVigiiH ."ill Pound*—Champion Police, in -a of Other Cities—Modern Cnli'atln In and Out of Shows—Tall Women. There seems to be a revival in liter ature pertaining to giants. One phase of if started in St. Louis. The oilier day a St. Louis editor dis covered a wonderful young giant wear ing the blue uniform and brass but ton'-. cf the St. Louis police force—a stuiwart son of Auak, impressive in his official trappings and a terror to evildoers. With a llourish of boastful delight he sent forth a challenge to the students of giant greatness in other ciiies, calling on them in words that rang a defiant nolo to produce the equal or superior of the St. Louis Go liath. The towering specimen of giant bond offered by St. Louis is Patrolman Mur ray P. Davidson, twenty-nine years old. Ills height is six feet two and a half inches, and his weight 201 pounds. The challenge in his behalf was di rected to the police chiefs in other big American cities. "Have you any officer in your city that will beat liim?" said the letter. The proud boast of St. Louis that It had the biggest policeman on earth was destined to early humiliation. Chief Kipley, of Chicago, read the challenge. Then a sardonic smile un coiled itself upon his usually impertur bable face. He touched an electric button and asked for Edward Mar tini. In response Martini was speedi ly ushered into the chief's presence. The latter proudly surveyed his sub ordinate from the ground up, his ga-'.e seeming to rest on the ceiling when it had reached the giant's head. "What are your dimensions. Mar tini?" asked Chief Kipley. "I aril six feet, three inch s in height," said the policeman. "My weight is 317 pounds, my chest expan sion eight inches." "That will do," answered the chief, with a lofty wave of his hand. "It beats the St. Louis giant, and we can rest on our laurels until we hear from some other precinct." He is thirty-six years old, and a na tive of Wisconsin. His record, di mensions and photograph were promptly forwarded to St. Louis, to the great chagrin of the champion giant of 11) at town. It was oulj' a day or two before a Ohio giant entered the lists. This was Officer F. I\. Starrett, a member of the Columbus police force. But he failed to carry off the palm. He easily beat the S6. Louis giant in every point ex cept height. Ills principal measure ments are: Height, six feet one inch; breadth of shoulders, twenty-six inches; chest and waist girtli, each llfiy-tlvo Inches; erlf of leg, twenty inches; thigh, thirty inches. He is tliin.v-uine years old and weighs 317 pounds. The Buckeye giant has thirty pounds the better of Chicago's biggest policeman, but the latter is superior and more impressive in height. Yet he lowers the proud standard Ufa* was raised the champion gl.Tfit of St. Louis. Tlvjre nr>y doubtlos' many otlic*? IffTri-coated g'nnts will be heard from before 'ibis Interesting contest is ended. It is jatflral that men of ex traordinary strrgtll and proportions should seek ami liud employment on tho police force of large cities. A year or two ago, just alter the reorganiza tion of the Broadway squad in New York, It was said that Ariehbald Tag gar t and Harry Graham, at that time roundsmen in the squad, were proba bly the biggest policemen in the world. Graham was the tallest man oil the Now York police force, being six feet six and a half inches in height, but his weight was only 243 pounds. He was so tall and thin that, he was called the lightning rod cop. In every point ex cept that of height he is outclassed by the Westerners already referred to. Taggart, in every way except in height, was a larger man than Graham. Ilis measurements were: Height, six feet five and a half inches; cliest, forty-seven inches; waist, tliir ty-seveu and a half inches. Ilis weight was 278 pounds. Stiff, all modern Goliaths are not found in the police ranks. When Em peror William made his celebrated tour of tho Holy Land, two years or more ago, ho took with him for spec tacular purposes the fullest man iu the German Army. This German giant was reported to be seven feet eight inches in height. Prince Frederick Henry, eldest son of the Prince Re gent of Brunswick, who recently at tained his majority, is tho tallest of the Iloheiizollcrns, being over six feet throe inches in height. Oswald Ballins is now said to be one of the greatest giants of the German Army. lie is a Bavarian by birth, twenty-three years old, and seven feet one inch In height and stiff growing, lie weighs 300 pounds and is, unlike most extremely tall men, In perfect health. He was recently married to Miss Bcemen, a native of Tonquln, China. Her mother was a German, and her father a Chinese. She is con siderably taller than most women, being six feet six inches high, and when last heard from was stiff grow ing at the rate of two inches a year. Hassin All, who gives Cairo, Egypt, as his home, is said to be eight feet five inches tall. His head is thirty-one inches long. He married a Mahom metan lady who was six feet high at the age of fourteen. Miss Ella Ewing. the Missouri giant ess, who is eight feet four inches iu height, recently completed a house for herself at the town of Covin, in that State. Her new house lias doors ten feet high, ceilings fifteen feet high, With chairs, tables, beds and every- tiling In proportion. Before this she never had a bed long enough to sleep in with comfort. The greatest thin giant of recent times was Joseph Blacisyewski, a la boring man in Chicago, who was seven feet eight inches in height, but weighed only 125 pounds. Ho lately died at the age of forty-one. lie came to America from Poland. Chicago has now a renowned boy giant in the person of one Harry Mey ers. who says that he quit the show business a short time ago to become a tramp, lie is one of the few tramp giants 011 record. He is twenty years old, stands six feet eleven inches in his stocking feet and weighs over GOO pounds. Tennessee has a reformed giant. He js the Rev. Charles Kcstersou, a na tive of Hancock County, in that State. I lis height is seven feet eight inches, though he says that in the prime of manhood he was over eight feet tall, lie is now seventy-five and weighs about 300 pounds. Years ago he was a moonshiner and general all-round terror. Then he was converted, joined the Baptist Church and began preach ing. He was still engaged in this work at last accounts. It is said that the tallest man ever accurately measured was Winckel ineyer, who was eight feet six inches in height. Chang, the Chinese giant, the tallest person ever exhibited in this country, was only seven feet six inches high, though he pretended to be over eight feet. The tallest woman on the American stage is Miss Mary Tull, who, beside her histrionic talent, has won world wide fame as the favorite model of some American sculptors for their goddesses of liberty. Miss Tuff's height Is considerably over six feet, which naturally limits her field of endeavor as an actress. —Xew York Sun. Hcdgehogi* and Moles. Writing to a sporting contemporary a gentleman offers to receive any num ber of hedgepigs "up to a thousand," tu he believes they would do good on Ills estates in Devonshire. Some peo ple may be disposed to wonder what service can ho rendered to agriculture by creatures that do occasionally make a late supper of chickens and part ridges. The truth is, the hedgehog has never received full justice. lie is, take him all in all, an admirable beast. Everybody knows that the hedgehog eats snails and slugs, but few people, perhaps, have realized that he is also a liberal consumer of moles. Now, there are many estates in Devon shire where the mole employs a band of men to keep his family down, and there are places in Surrey, quite near London, where neither man nor trap can stop the ravages of these creatures on what is intended to be the lawn. Where the soil is sandy the mole lives deep, and he will fling up a chain of veritable mountains in his journeys under one's lawn in the course of a single night. This conduct may be borne with in parks and meadows, but in gardens it becomes Intolerable. It may he suggested, therefore, to those householders whose lawns are ravaged by moles whom neither trap nor pro fessional trappist '.an control that a few hedgehogs hi the garden might bring the pestilential moles to some of ill'/ fitness of things.—Lo 'don Glol }. C*Joufl Flgli From a Driven Well. Sorue time ago a driven well was r*ak at the Howell Creamery, Pine V.dand, to the depth of 250 feet. The supply of water obtained equalled only one quarter of the amount necessary, and in order to obtain a greater sup ply two charges of joveite, a new ex plosive, were discharged by William J. Brown, an expert in its use. Both charges were set off simultaneously by ail electric battery, and a column of water eight inches in diameter was thrown to a height of 300 feet. 'Many curious things came up from the bot tom of the well, including three curi ous fish. They were about eight inches long and had neither head nor tail, both ends being alike. They could swim as easily backward as forward and were not provided wivli eyes or mouth. There were several small ori fices at each end of these curious lish. When they came down with a shower of stones from the top of the column of water they hounded repeatedly many feet in the air. One was cap tured by a Polauder, who, curious to see its interior, struck it with a duff hatchet, but made no Impression wbat ! ever upon the fish, although he killed | it. One is still alive in capitivity.— I Xew York Sun. The Congressman Wont to Sleep. One of the most absent-minded men in the House of Representatives is Mr. Burton, of Ohio, chairman of the com mittee on rivers and harbors. The other day Mr. Burton having charge of fie appropriation biff, forgot that for the time being he was boss of the liouse and that it was his duty to say when the weary lawmakers should quit work. .When that time came Bur ton forgot all about it. The speaker looked hard at him, but Burton did not come out of his trance. Finally Gen oral Henderson's patience gave out. "The gentleman from Ohio," he shout ed, just as if Mr. Burton had been asking for recognition. The Oliioan jumped up, looked bewildered and fin ally blurted out: "Eh, eh, Mr. Speak er," he stuttered. "I move tho House do now adjourn." "Well, he's awake finally," muttered Speaker Henderson, sotto voce, "but some people do need a lot of sleep."—Chicago Chronicle. Kins: Edward's Curious Property. King Edward VII. Is proprietor ot the beds of all British tidal rivers, such as the Thames, the Mersey, the T.vne. and others. He also owns that part of the shore all round tuo const line wliL. ii lies between high and low-water mark. TOM HOCD AS A JOKER. How Ho Once (lot Hit* Wife Into u Dad SCT 1 V . It Is one of the ironies of fate that a wit or humorist is sometimes married to a prosaic, jest-proof woman or an imaginative, humor-loving woman to a ffteral-minded, matter-of-fact man. It has been suspected that Laurence Sterne, the creator of "My Uncle Toby" and Shandy and Corporal Tim, had such a wife as the former, by whom his sly,, rich bits of Rabelaisian humor—his mediaeval double enten dre:;, his quollibeta and quid pro quos modele d on Scan-on and exploding like pyrotechnics—were not only unappre ciated, but almost unnoticed. How for tunate B was for that prince of icsters. Thomas Hoed, that, with his fondness for both verbal and practical jests, ho was married to a woman of the sweet est temper, who, though often cheated by them, could join in the laugh which they provoked even when at her own expense! On one occasion, when living by the seacoast, Hood gave his wife some useful hints on buying fish. "Above all things, Jane," said he, "as they will endeavor to impose on your inexperi ence, let nothing induce you to buy a paiee that has any appearance of red or orange spots, as they are sure signs of an advanced stage of decomposi tion." Armed with this information and rather anxious to show off her knowledge, Mrs. Hood was prepared to do battle with the cunning fisher woman, one of whom soon afterward called. As it happened the woman had nothing but plaice, which had the ominous spots, and Mrs. Hood, shak ing her head, hinted her fears that the fish were not fresh. In vain did the llshcrwoman insist that they were only just out of the water. Mrs. Hood, in the innocence of her heart and the pride of conscious knowledge, was ready. "My good woman. It may be as you say, but I should never think of buy ing any plaice with those unpleasant red spots." "Lord bless yer eyes, mum!" re plied the astonished flsherwoman with a shout, "who ever seed plaice with out spots?" A suppressed giggle on the staircase behind her revealed the joke, and, turning her head hastily, Mrs. Hood caught sight of her husband hurried ly disappearing in an ecstacy of laughter, leaving her to appease the angry sea symph as best she could. IT nasi ii'm Advance in Machine Tool*. Most Englishmen must feel aston ishment at the headway made by France, Germany and Russia in recent years; it is a revelation which, sus pected by some and known to a few, was undreamed of by most. Germany and France have the largest exhibits of machine tools at tne Champs do Mars. But if the Vincennes annex at the Paris exposition is included tho Americans come out a good first, both in size and in point of interest. Bel gium, Switzerland and Italy nuike com paratively little show in machine tools, though strong in other produc tions. A feature that is likely to as tonish many is the appearance here in force ot Russia. In metallurgy chiefly, in railway plant, and in ma chine tools, though in a lesser degree, she occunies an important position. And it is not that of an amateur, hut of a people in possession of sound practical knowledge. That great, and until recently inert nation, has defi nitely entered into rivalry with the western nations of Europe and we may anticipate that not many years will elapso before that rivalry will be se verely felt. The nation that figures so largely here in metallurgy and in ma chinery, and that is able to construct a trans-Siberian railway without out side help, is capable of great tilings— Cassier's Magazine. Tlie American Soldier in China. In spite of his many handicaps, tho American soldier has fully held his own. He has numerous weaknesses, but fear of the enemy is not, fortunate ly for tho security of the republic, among them. I heard foreign officers freely criticise his military manners and organization, but never his fight ing qualities, once his burden of anti quated methods has been cast aside and he faces the foe on the firing-line. Then he is as he always was, and, let us hope, always will be. In all tho criticism one hears there is an under current of respect. I never see him in a fight hut I feel, wua absolute cer tainty that the American soldier will ever give a good account of himself if not asked to do more than should be asked of a man. Other elements being approximately equal, the stoutest heart and steadiest nerve will win the most battles. In „nese qualities Uncle Sam's boys are second to none. "They've done their share," is the verdict of people in China who nave been hero through it all.-—Thomas F. Millard, in Scribner's. Where I'iceoiiH Were Plentiful. The American ornithologist, Alex ander Wilson, who undertook many journeys in several parts of tho States to collect knowledge for his great work on the feathered creation, stated that near Shelbyville, Ky., he came upon a roosting place of the carrier pigeons upward of 40 miles in extent. He found the branches of almost every tree in the country, which was thickly wooded, filled with nests. A marvelous spectacle was presented by the pigeons in flight, as on rising from tlnvtrees they formed fluttering multi tudes, with wing 3 roaring like thunder. Early every morning the pigeons set out for their feeding place at a dis tance Oi from 30 to CD miles away, and tho advanced party generally arrived hack by noon. Cha\>lala'a I'iayov Causes Commotion. Quite a commotion has been aroused •In the Nebraska legislature by a prayer uttered by the chaplain in the house of representatives. It was in tn. : wise: "O Lord, we thank thee that the members of the legislature can come and ro between their homes and their legislative halls with such ease and sueh little expense to themselves." This cut at the solons who travel on railroad passes hag roused great in dignation, and many hearers are in an uncomfortable frame of mind. Vast Coal Fields in India. 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