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Bush Advocate, Volume V, Issue 354, 16 August 1890, Page 8

Mr. Maurice Healy writeß to the Frecm m's Journal Btating that a number of ladies met on tho invitation of tho Lady Mayoress of Dublin, to take stops for presenting a wedding gift to Mr. "William O'Brion's future •wife from the women of Itelaud. Subscriptions vtiM bo limited to £1 a« the maximum. Mrs. Anna O'Brien, known in tho Stnte9 an the-" German Giantess," and Fred. A. Shields, who belongs to a family of giants, were maroed in Cincinnatti a day or two ngo. They are abewt the same height— between seveu arid eight feet. The bride was the widow ef Patrick O'Brien, who, too, was a giant. T.'ie now American naval torpedo boat dishing is p. remarkable vessel. She has attained a speed of ncwr/y twenty-seven knots an hour. While Btoa/ui';ig at the rate of twenty- live knots an hour her fs"«gr??eß were suddenly reversed, she backod at "&fc jrate of eighteen kuota an hour, Slje ft]*? ft»J"ned within her own length. ". "