The Biggest Man in the World.
The largest and heaviest man in tho world is now on show in Paris. He is financially interested iu the restaurant at which he takes up his position day by day, and the immense business which it does fully repays him the inconvenience of being stared at. He measures 6ft 3Jin in height and is exactly as broad as he is high. His arms are Ift llin in circumference, his calves 2ft llin. Round the waist he measures 7ft lin ; his weight is 5201b5. There is no deception about him, for all his " weights and measures" have been officially tested. Monsieur Canonberg occupies a speci-ally-prepared platform at one end of his establishment. It is constructed (by order of the police) of solid beams of wood, supported beneath the floor by iron pillars. \ promenade leads from his seat to the door, down which, every half-hour, the big man takes a constitutional. He is a genial giant, a great smoker, but eats and drinks sparingly, and is never ill. The doctors suppose that he is suffering from an abnormality of the heart. "I never even knew," says C'anonberg, " that I had a heart." Which is not surprising.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 3, 29 April 1896, Page 4
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