lives in comparative
obscurity on his farm in Guilford, Medina County, O., half a mile east
of Seville."

In 1845 there was shown in Paris Joachim Eleiceigui, the Spanish giant,
who weighed 195 kilograms (429 pounds) and whose hands were 42 cm. (16
1/2 inches) long and of great beauty. In 1882 at the Alhambra in London
there was a giantess by the name of Miss Marian, called the "Queen of
the Amazons," aged eighteen years, who measured 2.45 meters (96 1/2
inches). William Campbell, a Scotchman, died at Newcastle in May 1878.
He was so large that the window of the room in which the deceased lay
and the brick-work to the level of the floor had to be taken out, in
order that the coffin might be lowered with block and tackle three
stories to the ground. On January 27, 1887, a Greek, although a Turkish
subject, recently died of phthisis in Simferopol. He was 7 feet 8
inches in height and slept on three beds laid close together.

Giants of History.--A number of persons of great height, particularly
sovereigns and warriors, are well-known characters of history, viz.,
William of Scotland, Edward III, Godefroy of Bouillon, Philip the Long,
Fairfax, Moncey, Mortier, Kleber; there are others celebrated in modern
times. Rochester, the favorite of Charles II; Pothier, the jurist;
Bank, the English naturalist; Gall, Billat-Savarin, Benjamin Constant,
the painter David, Bellart, the geographer Delamarche, and Care, the
founder of the Gentleman's Magazine, were all men of extraordinary
stature.

Dwarfs.--The word "dwarf" is of Saxon origin (dwerg, dweorg) and
corresponds to the "pumilio" or "nanus" of the Romans. The Greeks
believed in the pygmy people of Thrace and Pliny speaks of the
Spithamiens. In the "Iliad" Homer writes of the pygmies and Juvenal
also describes them; but the fantasies of these poets have given these
creatures such diminutive stature that they have deprived the
traditions of credence. Herodotus relates that in the deserts of Lybia
there were people of extreme shortness of stature. The Bible mentions
that no dwarf can officiate at the altar. Aristotle and Philostratus
speak of pygmy people descended from Pygmaeus, son of Dorus. In the
seventeenth century van Helmont supposed that there were pygmies in the
Canary Islands, and Abyssinia, Brazil, and Japan in the older times
were repeatedly said to contain pygmy races. Relics of what must have
been a pygmy race have been found in the Hebrides, and in this country