The Democratic Advocate

Curious Giant Story.—Dec. 28, while William Thompson, who lives near Oil City, was making an excavation near his house, he hit upon a huge helmet; and near by it a sword which measured nine feet in length. A little further search revealed a well preserved skeleton of an enormous giant, who must have stood at least eighteen feet in his stockings. The teeth are all double, of enormous size, and still in their places. And the bones, which are all complete, are said to be remarkably white and well proportioned. The skeleton was found twelve feet under ground, and directly beneath what appear to have been a mound.
To make sure that there is no mistake about it, the whole giant family is again trussed out, to show that this eighteen-footer was no way remarkable for size, after all. Thus we are assured that there was a gentleman in Rouen, in 1530, who measured nearly eighteen feet in height; that near the same city a skeleton was found, in 1850, whose skull held a bushel of corn, and who was fully nineteen feet high; that Ferragus, slain by Orlando, nephew of Charlemagne, stood twenty-eight feet; and, finally, that a skeleton was found near the castle in Dauphine, in 1823, twenty-five and a quarter feet long, ten feet across the shoulders, and five feet from the breast-bone to the back. In such company as this, Chang, the little Chinaman, might play the part of Tom Thumb.