Colossal Children

The quaint little town of St. Nicholas, in East Flanders, boasts the possession of two children of such extraordinary abnormal growth as to put completely in the shade all similar infant prodigies of the past or present. These veritable Brobdignagian youngsters are boy and girl. Tlie eider, Mas - ter Clement Smedst, is 15 years of age and weighs no less than 420 pounds (30 3tone); the circumference of his body is 6 feet 6 inches; he measures 36 inches around the leg and 28 inches around the arm. His sister Bertha, is 8 yeara 3ld, and turns the seale at 224 pounda (16 stone). In spite of their enorccous dimensions their activity is remarkable, for they trip and skip about wlth all the agility of other children of their age. It is an astonishing sight to see these infant mountains of humanity romping about in country lanea svith other children of the village. One would imagine them to be the off6pring of a race of giants, so high do they tower over the heads of their little playfellows. Their appearance Is decidedly interesting, both havlng extremely handsome and regular features. Bertha, like other girls of tender years, delights in nursing a dolí, which seems ludicrously out of place ind proportion in the arms of the young giantess. The couple are attracting the attention of the country around, and on fine days crowds of people floek into the quiet little town in order to catch a glimpse of these colossal chij'