A scheme to produce moral and spiritual giants would be of more value
to the world than the following:
Some time since Count Alfred de Pierrecourt left a legacy of
$2,000,000 to his native city of Rouen to pay the expense of
the propagation of giants. The will was contested by his heirs,
who naturally enough did not see the necessity of having giants
on the earth in these days, particularly when they were to be
bred, raised, fed and clothed at their personal expense. The
courts, however, sustained the will to the extent of endowing
the Brobdingnagian experimenters with a quarter of the estate,
so that an institution has been established with an endowment
of $500,000, under the supervision of the municipality, for
the culture of giants and the production of monstrosities. The
trustees are to search the four corners of the globe for men and
women of large stature, and are to pair them off in couples and
place them in the homes on a farm near Rouen. (Text.)
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