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Washington Leiter. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, i895 No attacks ever made upon a Presi? dent in either House ol' Congress were more more cowardly than those which have been and are now being made upon President Cleveland for having bought gold, which he con? sidered necessary for the preserva? tion of the credit of the government, upon the best obtainable terms Tue attacks are cowardly, because those who make them know that the Presi? dent cannot fully reply to them with? out saying things which they are cer? tain his patriotism will prevent his i saying. There are not two men in j the United States, whoso reputation for honesty and integrity are higher than those of Grover Cleveland and : John G. Carlisle, and they have both ! said in the most positive terms that j the contract for the issue of those bonds to purchase the needed gold, was the best to be obtained. Repub-1 licans in both House and Senate have ! stated that the bonds could have been exchanged for gold in this country upon better terms. To resort to abuse of these men is too much like adopting their methods, but they j must have knewn when they made i those statements that they were false. | It is not expected that either Presi? dent Cleveland or Secretary Carlisle will ever publicly say that American j capitalists were appealed to, and ap pealed to in vain, to furnish the gold | needed by the government and take | bonds to pay for it Such a state- j ment from the President or the Secre- j tary of the Treasury would have a ! tendency to injure the credit of the United States abroad, and it is not likely to be made, no matter how much abuse may be heaped upon them. But it is none the less cow? ardly to take advantage of that. Ex-Speaker Reed isu't the chipper ; man he was. He was forced to show bis hand OD the gold bond bill, which was defeated by the House, and thereby he lost the support of ail the silver republicans, as a Presidential candidate. He thought he had a walk-over for the nomination; now he sees defeat in sight. The republican Senators can yell "sugar trust" as loud as anybody when trying to catch votes, but when it comes to passing a bill like that for the repeal of the differential duty on sugar which has been passed by the House and which would, while beneficing cur trade with Germany and the other conti? nental European countries, strike the pocket of the sugar trust, they at once assume the role of obstruc? tionists. The intelligent people of| this country will have no difficulty in spotting the friends of the sugar trust in the Senate. The democrats have favorably reported this bill and I want it to pass ; The republicans are determined to kill it without voting upon it. The House committee on Rules has a difficult task in deciding which bills shall be given the time that will not be consumed by the appropria? tion bills during the remaining two j weeks of the session. Some imper- j tant bills are being called to the j attention of the committee, among! them being the Nicaragua canal bill, j which has been reported to the House as a substitute for the bill that passed the Senate : the Pacific Railroad funding bill, which was once sent back to committee by vote of the House ; the free ship bill, bills for reorganization of the army and navy, bill for surveys of deep water canals, labor arbitration hill, and the bill for the amendment of the copyright laws, which has been so strongly urged by the big newspaper publishers. . Representative Springer, who re? tires with this Congress, declares that he is not a candidate for the vacancy made by the sudden and lamented deate of Hon. Isaac Pusey Gray, late U. S Minister to Mexico, and he adds that he would not accept .any executive appointment that would take him out of this country, which he considers quite good j enough for him. A strong effort is ! being made to get Senator Ransom I as Minister to Mexico Senator Hill is making a gallant ' fight for his resolution, which j reiterates the determination of this country to endeavor to maintain j silver and gold at a parity and de- ? clares that in the eveut of faiiure.it will pay its obligations in the best: money, but there is not much pro-1 bability of its adoption. Mr. Hill's! resolution is intended to be a com? promise and he says it should be sup? ported by every man who is neither a I believer in a single gold standard, nor a single silver standard, but but all the same it is strongly op-1 posed. Before the House voted on the gold bill it was thought that the bill of Senator Jones, of Ark , for the uulimited coinage of silver, would be voted upon and passed by the Senate; it is now considered doubtful whether any attempt will be mad^ to push it to a vote. The Census Bureau dies with Con? gress. After the 4th uf next month only a small force of clerks will be re? tained under the direction of the sec? retary of the Interior to finish the work. - - ? --- Blairs peo and pencil tablets, stationery of all kinds, mk, pees, pencils, blank books, pevrriter supplies, etc., at H. G. ?8teen o's., Liberty Street, next to Watchman ron office. Kingstree Scorched. The Little Town Sustains Se? rious Damage KINGSTREE, Feb. 18.-As day dawn? ed upon the usually quiet littie village of Kingstree this morning i? revealed the tact that fire had made a pretty large opening during the night right in the business centre of the town. Four chimneys standing as monuments, throe iron safes and seme smouldering ashe.-; is all that is left of what were con? sidered yesterday four of Kiugstree's most popular business places. The alarm of fire was given about 1 o'clock this morning and in a few mo? ments the citizens came rushing in from all sides It was soon discovered that the fi?mes came from the store of Wm. Epps & Soo, on Main street. The door was knocked down and it was ! seen that the fire had made too great headway to think of trying to save the store. Mr. Johu Epps, the junior j member of the firm, was fast asleep in the back room of the store and did cot know it was n fire uutil aroused by his friends, from the outside. The flames spread rapidly and soon thc two adjoining stores were on fire and it also took io 'he drug store of Dr. W. G. Gamble and the residence of Mrs. Ollie I Epps. both of the latter being absent ; from the city at the time. The next buildings standing in imminent danger were the Coleman Hotel, on the west, and the store of H. X. Weingarten on the east. For at least forty minutes ; every one worked like Trojans, yet, expecting every moment, iu spite of their heroic efforts to save the town, to see these two large buildings catch, which would have caused every other house on Main street to have been de? stroyed by the maddening flames. But fortunately it was a very calm night and everything had been covered with sleet and snow so long that the fire did not make much headway, as it would have done if it had been in daytime and the least breeze stirring. The losses are estimated at about ?5,000. and upon which there was only about ?1,000 insurance. The store house of King & Montgomery was ow?ed by Mrs. I. M. Koger and was a large two-story building. It was valued at $1,000, upon which there was not a cent of insurance. The stock of goods belongiug to King & Montgomery was valued at ?700 and was insured by a Richmond company, represented here by E. G. Chandler, for ?500. The butldiog occupied by Wm. Epps & Son was owned by Eddie Epps and valued at ?500 ; no insurance. Messrs. Epps & Son's stock was valued ar. ?1,500, upon which they carried ?600 insur? ance in the agencies represented by F. N. Wilson, of Maoniug. The store occupied by E. J. Aostoo was owned by Epps & Son ; no insurance. Aoston's stock of goods was valued at $500, upou which there was no insurance. Dr. W G. Gamble's drug store was owned by Eddie Epps ; no iusurance. Dr. Gamble had no insurauce upon his Grujjs, the most of which were 6aved. Miss Molly Epps' residence and furni-i ture was a complete loss, upmi which j there was no insurance. - The State. New Test Cases. How the Dispensary Law is to Get Into Court Again. Yesterday papers were sent to Covernor Evans which had been served on Chief Constable Holley and several other liquor constables itt the lower districts of the State, marking the commencement of six new cases in the United States Circuit Court, which will bring up the vital point in the dispensary law as to the right of a citizen of South Carolina to purchase liquor outside ? the State and have it shipped into the State to him. This is the point which learned attorneys say is in j violation of the Federal Constitution ! and the inter-State commerce law. The difference between these cases which are brought by Messrs Bryan & Bryan, of Charleston, and the Aiken case is that the complainants are piivate individuals, while in the Aiken case the complainant is a municipality, having no standing in court. Two citizens of Charleston or? dered liquor shipped from Savannah and New York and allowed the con? stables to seize it. Now they are bringing suit for heavy damages. It is understood, it might be mentioned, that the Aiken appeal case to the United States Supreme Court, which was to have been heard this week, has been abandoned.-The State. \ According to the census of 1890 there I are 832 convicts to every million inhabi ! tauts of the North Atlantic states, 730 j in the South Atlantic, 491 in the North I Central, 842 io South Central, and ! 1,341 io the Western. I Visitors to Martha's Vinyard herc ? after will be interested in enjoy ono the i best country roads in the United States, j and the equal ofa ny thing in the world, ! for experts who have examined it de j clare it to be perfect. It runs from the i Haven to Gay Head. All the logging camps wills tart up in I Washington and British Columbia wirh j io a few days. There are only 47,000 ! 000 feet of logs on hand in Washington, j hardly enough for a months run. J Prices are already stiffening, and deal j ers are elated over the prospects of up ' ward prices and as increased demand. --M---ll I IIIIMWMM.IIWIMWII ! For Thc Exposition. Tile Ball Seems to Have Be- ? gan to Koli Along. Governor Evans and the Young : Men's Business League of Charleston . are now beginning t.) shape tilings up :. j looking towards the securing ot an ex : bibil for the State of Sjuth Carolina st the Cotton States and International : Exposition to be held in Atlanta this fall. The yoong men of the Business ? League have been ham m crin ir away ar the matter for ?ouie time. On Satur ! day Governor Evans weat down to Charleston and on Sunday night bc re:urned Yesterday toe Governor said ?har be ; ; went to Charleston to meet the Young ! Men's Business League He found \ : that they had good Organization and j. : Tiad already done a considerable j j amount of work Their idea had been i to get up an exhibit exclusively for I Charleston, but the League had coa . seuted to go in with the Stute and let i their fund, which they had already i raised, go in with whatever other funds i could be secured to provide for a State I exhibit. He has agreed to help with j his contingent fund. To day, he says, I he will appoint three good, energetic ; men in each county to work up funds j for the exhibit. Then he will also ap ? poftot ooe man from each Coogressionil j district as a central committee, of wh: j he will be ex-officio chairman. He su . ; that it has been decided to make the ? fiaaoce committee of the Charleston Business League the central finance committee to which all funda will be sent. He says the State has employed Mr. E. L. Roche to formulate aud ar? range the exhibit. Governor Evans says that Charleston has raised somethiog over ?2,000 al? ready and there is every indication that she will raise ?3,000 more. He says he will spend ?1,500 of bis contin? gent fund in order to secure the ex? hibit. The Governor says further that he j wants every town in the State to get to j work and do what it can to raise funds j for the exhibit. He himself is going ?shortly to Greenville and Spartanburg to persoualiy see what can be done to? wards organizing those towns. He thioks that every small town by a se? rifs of entertainments, etc., can raise from $50 to $75. He is very desirous for the ladies to take a hand io the work and thinks that they can do a great deal of good in giving entertain? ments to raise funds. Again they can get up art exhibits and things of that kind. They will be given a special room io Atlanta for such exhibits. Gov. Evans stays that he expects to overhaul the old State exhibit now stored away at Clemson College, have the woods iu that exhibit polished up and added to aud utilize them. Ile says South Carolina has been allotted i 7,000 square feet of snace, but she I wants 10,000 aod he has already made application for so much.-The State 100 Miles in 248 Minutes. PARIS. Feb. 17 -A hundred mile bicycle race for the championship of France and England was ridden here to-day. Linton, the Englishman, was not in his usual form, as shortly before going on the track he learned that bis motlier died last, night. Ile was de? feated easily by Huret, who covered 100 miles in 4 hours, 7 minutes and 47 3-5 seconds The "Forty's" Convention. A Three Weeks' Postponement on Account of the Weather. The following announcement as to the convention, or conference, called by the "Forty'' to be held on March 6, will doubtless be read with inter? est : "I am authorized by a majority of the executive committee of the "Forty" to give notice that the date of the conference in Columbia is postponed from March 6th to March 27th proximo. The extreme weather of the past two weeks has so im- ? peded communication that more time ! j is required for some of the counties ? : to act. Let those counties where ! calls have been issued proceed with I I out change of programme. Other ; ; counties may hold the proposed \ I meetings at such time prior to March j I 27th as they respectively find most: \ convenient Papers throughout the j State are respectfully urged to re j produce this notice. "THOMAS J. KIRKLAND, "Secretary.'' Ransom to be Provided For. WASHI^JTOX, Feb. 15.-It was rumored about the Capitol this after- j noon that the President will be urged to appoint Senator Ransom to be minister to Mexico to succeed the late Minister Gray of Indiana, whose death ! was announced this moroinng. Mr. j Ransom's term of office as a Senator expires with this Congress, and it is j said that the President would be very ? glad to tender him this appointment. [ The talk about the nomination of Mr. j Ransom to be minister to Mexico to fill j the place made vacant by the death of j the late Minister Gray resulted this af- j ternoon in the circulation of a petition j to the President asking him to nominate Mr. Ransom to that place. This peri t?os was signed by every Democratic j Senator present, and when the Senate j adjourned there were twenty-five sigua- : tures to the petition. The remainder i of the Democratic Senators will sign the petition to-morrow and it will then be sent to President. Laudiina' at Latimer. A (JGngressman ia the Hands of a Clairvoyant. WASHINGTON, February IT -A good joke on Congressman Latimer has just come to light For some days past this gentleman hap been attend? ing to his Congressional duties, wear? ing a long forlorn countenance U-J if his last friend in the world had left him This is mude more prominent by the contrast of an exceedingly foy 1*;:! countenance which lie exhibited but a short time ago. Though Mr Latimer has been asked probably ten times a day the cause of his troubled look he has never yet given a satis factory answer, but rather bestows a clerical smile and changes the sub? ject. The real cause, however, has transpired and is said can be attribut? ed to a clairvoyant and a number o? friends of Mr Latimer who desired to have some fun at his expense It appears that for a long time the wonderful power of a prominent Washington clairvoyant was being continually brought to Mr. Latimer's ; attention. Ile talked to some friends ! about her, and received in solemn j looks and tones the highest recoin- ' mendations. They all knew people that had interviewed her, and said she told tnem wonderful things that had turned out as she had said. The desire to know something of his future persuaded Mr. Latimer until he at last gave in and visited the clair-1 voyant. Mowin some way that was not revealed the history of the Congress- ! man and a few incidents of his life were told to the clairvoyant previous j to his visit, and of course, when he ! came 6he was perfectly perpared. j She told him his occupation, age, the ! district he was from and numerous j happenings of his life. He was natu- ! rally astoundeo. and would, of course, believe anything she said of his future. "Your future," said she, "will be a brilliant one. You are not a politician, but a statesman. You j will not come back to Congress as a ! Representative, but as a Senator. The senior Senator from your State is in I very poor health and will live but ! six months. When he dies there will have to be a sucesor and it is willed j that you are to succeed him in the Senate." It is understood that Mr. Latimer was so overcome that he paid double for the information. Ile knew that j Senator Irby had not been feeling1 well for some time, but he didn't j know that he was in such dangerous, ; health. Ile felt sorry that the Sena tor was going to leave us, but the j clairoyant told him nothing in the ? world would stop it As for himself j he was delighted. He was for some time the jolliest fellow one would | care to meet He was always wish- j ing his friends a long life and sue- ! cessful future, and in fact some of his j acquaintances, who were not in the joke, thought that he must have struck a gold mine and wishing they ! were in his place The schemers I said never a word. Mis happiness was, ar -Ording to the old saying, '?? "too good to last." With but the throw of a stone the glass house was shattered A group of Congressmen among whom were Representative? izlar and Latimer, were clustered toghtner one evening telling yarns, and one thing led to another, when Repre-: sentative Izlar held the attention of; all by a narrative of his visit to a j clairvoyant. Mr Latimer, it is said, j was very attentive. "I called on a clairvoyant the other j day," began Mr Izlar, "and I am i inclined to believe some of the things she said. According to her statements I am not a politician, but ! a statesman She said that the sen- ? ior Senator from South Carolina was ? going to die in six month's time, and j that I was to succeed him, but not; directly, for another Representative would succeed him first, but that he would die three weeks after his instal? lation and I would be elected to fill the remainder of the term and also for : the long term. The crowd laughed, and the schemers turned their eyes on Mr Latimer. Ile had turned pale and was seemingly very nervous. It was not long before he left the crowd and went home. Since then he lias been completely broken up. lt was the intention of the jokers to reveal the' whole thing and turn the laugh on bim, but he took it so hard that it was thought best to worry him a little longer. Up to the time cf this writ? ing he has not found out that he is a victim of a huge joke -News and Courier. - IM m - In the old Allyn homestead on AI- ; lyn's Point, Ct., there can still be 6ten j the bloodstains of the victims of the ; massacre at Fort Griswold io 1781. i The victims were boated up the Thames River to thc Allyn homestead, after the battle was over, by their fathers and bruhers who had survived, and were laid in the house to wait iuterment. Hay stoves arc coming into satisfac? tory usc in t?ome parts of the Dakotas. They are said to burn from three to teu hours, according to thc weather, without refilling; are cleanly and economical and are, above all good heaters. Lack of cheap and good fuel has been ono of the ; chief drawbacks to the Northwestern prarie country, and a stove that will solve the hay and straw burning prob? lem will be a boon indeed. Two Weeks in Storms. Tho Remarkable Experience of the Steamship Salisbury. HALIFAX, Feb. IT.-The .steamer St. Jerome, from Gelveston via Nor? folk, Va., bound to Liverpool, arrived here to-day, having in ( nv the steamer Salisbury. Tue Salisbury was bound for New York (rom the Mediterranean, fruit laden., and has been thirty-nine day? trying to roach her destination. The captain reports a rough experience with the terrible gales of the past few weeks, and lier battered and dismantled appearance is ampie evidence of what she has gone through since January 29 She was in sight of the Delaware coast when the glass swept down on lier, rendering it impossible to make any headway, and she was driven several hundred miles away without being able to offer resistance. The storms continued from day to day, with unabated fury, and the ship was knocked about like a fragile cockle shell. She rolled at times in such a frightful marier that those on board feared she would turn over. The immense waves would crash down on her on ali sides and her deck was continuously ilooded. The majority of the crew were more or less injured. Nearly all the coal in the bunkers was consumed a week ago and iu order to make it last all of the wood work about the ship includ? ing her maintop mast, was burned. Finally things became so bad, there was nothing more with which to keep up steam. The engines, too, were almost useless from rolling and pitch? ing of the ship. The vessels vast tanks were also started by the terrific oscillation. In this extremity, the signal, "want immediate assistance'' was hoisted and on the afternoon of the 12th, 880 miles southwest of Sambro, they were sighted by the lookout on the steamer St. Jerome, which was on her way to Liverpool. The St. Jerome immediately bore down on the disabled steamer and the captain of the Salisbury came ou board and stated that his ship was completely helpless and had been at the mercy of the waves for several days aud requested that his ship be towed to Halifax. Captain Few of the St. Jerome agreed to this and lines were run be? tween the two ships, and at 5 o'clock p. m. they started ahead After tow? ing tHI 8 o'clock the next morning the hawsers parted and the heavy northeast gale with tremendous seas prevailing the Salisbury drifted from sight. At 7 o'clock on the following morning they came together again and at 9 o'clock managed to get the lines out. This proved a dangerous and difficult task, as the two ships were rolling badly in the heavy sea and the crew of the Salisbury were ? too much exhausted to be of assist? ance. The greatest risk at this time was in the ships colliding. The sea was running too high to permit them to launch boats, so life buoys iiad to I be brought into use. A buoy was ! attached to a small line and the St. ! Jerome moving to the windward, it ! was cast over and allowed to drift to ? the Salisbury, where it was secured : and hauled aboard Hawsers were then attached to this I and by this means lines were again j run between the two vessels, and a second start was made A strong ; north west gale was encountered; which lasted until the evening of the j 15th, when it moderated and remain- ! ed fair until Sunday evening, when it ! became stormy again. Captain Hold-1 orf and the crew of the Salisbury are | completely worn out, and say it was j the worst they ever went through ! and had about given up all hope when ] they were picked up The captain i remained at his post practically with? out sleep for ten days and was \ thoroughly worn out when rescued. The Salisbury's cargo is considerably damaged. The courts will adjust the salvage. _JS-^^^^ The Legislative Gallery At 1 he last sesi?n of the Legislature a handsome oi! painting of governor ; Tillman was presented to the house by the friends of Governor Tillman. The painting has been in the executive of? fice until yesterday, when Governor Evans superintended i's banging io rlie hall of the House of Representatives directly over the speaker's stand, lt will hereafter %Q a companion piece to the engraving cf George Washington. Up to this time the pictures of Gen? eral Gordon and General Butler have | been in the House, but they have been placed in the Senate chamber where the paintings of General Hampton and Gen? eral Gary are hung. The up stairs picture gallery will be ?ometbiug of a rival to the judicial gal? lery which is being collected by Clerk Brooks.- The State. Mrs. Emily Thorne, who resides at Toledo, Washington, says she has never been able to procure any medicine for rheumatism that relieves the pain so quickly and effectually as Chamberlain's Paia Balm, and that she has also used it tor lame bark with great success. For sale by Dr. A. J China. Typewriter supplies at il. G. Osteel) k Co's , Liberty street. ---mm?~ -I Success in Life depends on little things. A Ripans Tabule is a little thing, but taking one occasionally gives good digestion, and that me'.ns good blood, and that means good braio and brawn, and that means success. 7-25-o ITEMS. The big horn of the Rocky Mountains seems rn unite thc bead of the moui??in .-heep with the body of the deer. Ocean crabs have the po ver of so closely resembling their surroundings that they are practically invisible. Napoleon's favorite amusement was indulging in intrigues, which, he said, relaxed a man's rniod when tired with ser'ous business. Jilin Milton loved to play on the or? gan. He made his second wife sing, and said she had SOCI? voice, but not the slightest ide?, of tone. Octavias August- had a mortal dread of thunder, and whenever a storm cime on he retired to an underground vault built for protection. Germany is under a burder, of $160 000,000 yearly to support her standing army The amount represents one third of the resources of the entire state. j Search-lighc.= are such good targets for tiie enemy's guns that the Germans are arranging to throw light lirst on a mirror and thence on the enemy, there? by concealing its real source. During the building of the Siberian railway, in draining a bay 60 miles I wide, both engineers and men had to live in buts built on piles which could j be approached only in boats. Coffee pots are an oriental invention, i and are supposed to have come from i Arabia in A. D. 1400. About the same time they were used ia Persia, but they did not come to France until 1663, and made their appearance io England with coffee in 1650. Among the Arabs a practice from time immemorial "has prevailed of churning by placing the milk n leather j skins, which were shaken or beaten un ? til the butter came. The huns did their churning by tying a bag of milk to a short lariat, the other end of which was fastened to tbe saddle. The Prix da Rome, once tb ? subject of the ambition of every art student in Paris, has declined so much in value that it is proposed to abolish it. It carries with it a traveling scholarship in Italy, aud the plea of those who at? tack it is that a student possessing it wastes his talent in slavish imitation of thejltalian masters, rasher than devel? oping it by the interpretation cf nature. The sculptor Rodin, the leader of the antagonists, maintains that* ?is prize has only retarded the progress of the great men who have obtained it io the past. Mr. J. P. Porteus, who has the cog* cession for a Mexican village, w^s a visitor at the Cotton States and Inter? national Exposition headquarters ; the past week. He came up from Mexico with Mr. Charles H. Redding, the Ex? position Commissioner to that country and Ceutral America. Mr. Portals says the Mexican Village will be o?V of the best attractions at the F.xposi-\, tion. It will cover about i;wo ard a half acres of ?round and will have a good representation of the Mexican Cathedral with its surroundings of adobe, or thatched dwellings. The ' adobe houses represent tbe elevated plateau and the thatched huts repre? sent the bot regions. Several tribes of natives will be there and the important archaeological remains of Palenque will be illustrated by large photo? graphs. Mr. Porteus says these ruins " contain a bas relief of a cross and other emblems of Christian worship unac? countable except upon the theory that Mexico was visited by Europeans long before the time of Columbus. Mr. E W. McConnel h;?s secured from the Cotton Statesand Internation? al Exposition Company a concession i for a reproduction of the burning vol? cano of Kilauea, the largest active vol? cano io the world. It is- situated on the side of Mt. Mauna Loa, four thousand feet above sea level and ten miles from the Pacific. According to Hawaiian mythology, the god of the sea fell in love with Pele, the goddess of fire, and pursued her to Mauua Loa. There she took refuge io the burning \olcano of Kilauea. When it is in eruption. Pele is supposed to be angry, and the Kaha na or priest offers prayer, with sacri? fices of auimals or children. The god? dess Pele will be represented as rising from thc flames when called forth by the incantation of Kahuna. She will be personated by a beautiful Hawaiian girl. The Court Singers of King Kal akaua will siog the religious songs of the Hawaiians. Nearly every race has contributed to giantism, says Scribner, but :he Eng li>h have furnished far the larger pro? portion, partly, perhaps, because the English have always been fond of see? ing giants and paying for ihe privilege, thereby drawing the merit, of physical bigness, which bas always bee3 modest out of its undeserved obscurity. Next to the English, the Irish have supplied the largest number, but the Irish giant is rarely grown nowadays, since that stock has been drawn upon so heavily by America. Germany and the United States have supplied, each, eight or nine men who have woo publicity and fame by their exuberant phy?que. It seems to be the American Western States that supply the American giants, and our war records show that in these regions, together with Maine and Ver? mont, the average stature is the high? est There have been French and Italiao, negro and Arab giants, but the number is few, and it is evident that ; the temperate zones and large rac supply the most cases of giantism, is a curious fact that since Bibi cal day there have been BO giants among the Jews.