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\The Wedding of Giants.A few days ago, the cable announced the prospective marriage in England of the Kentucky giant, Captain Bates, and the Nova Beotia giantess, Miss Annan ! Swan. This Bates-Swan wedding, whichcame off a few days ago, was, we are told, the tallest one of the Season. Bates is eight feet long when lying down, and just about eight feet high when standing up! Laying or standing, he weighs 400 pounds! If we remember correctly, Bates is a production of Boone county, Ky. At all events,^ a few years ago he paid occasional visits to Cincinnati, and the ovation he received from the newsboys on such occasions would have made anybody but a stout man qtiaiL The bride of Bates is a few inches taller than her husband, and about the same weight, f It is not stated where the bride procured her wedding trousseau, but is estimated there were about six acres of it. It is not stated, either, what business Mr. Bates proposes to follow', but if he does ! not keep a dry-goods store, he ought to establish one cotton mill, at least, to manufacture wardrobes, because if the two dress in the latest fashions, and use goods in proportion to bulk or size, they will have to charter or buy a mill, and keep it in operation all the time. Then, in the course of events, there maybe some little giants and giantesses also to be clothed. Therefore the best thing for the masculine to do is to get possession of a cotton mill, and as soon as possible rent a cotton plantation.
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Indiana Progress
Indiana, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Jul 20, 1871
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