THE EVENING STAR; 
^WASHINGTON, D. c. 
^ATURDAY, 
NOVEMBER 18, 1893- 
TWENTY PAGES 
A Strapping- Family. 
From the New York Sun. 
"As a specimen of what Kentucky can do 
in the way of producing stalwart sons and 
daughters," said a proud native of the Blue 
Grass country, "I might mention the old 
Joe Morrison family of Bourbon county. 
Anybody of the present generation who ever 
lived in Kentucky will remember old Joe 
Morrison's family. The family consisted of 
Joe and his wife and six sons and three 
daughters. Joe stood 6 feet 4 in his stock- 
ings and weighed 210 pounds. His wife was 
the same height exactly, but she weighed 
266 pounds. The oldest son, Tom. was also 
6 feet 4, and he weighed 286 pounds. Jim 
topped his brother Tom two inches m height, 
but he wasn't as heavy by seventy pounds. 
Their sister Sarah was a slim girl, weigh- 
ing only 155 pounds, but she could look over 
the heads of both Tom and Jim, for she 
stood 6 feet 6 1-2 inches. 
"But John was the big boy of the family. 
He only lacked an inch of being seven feet 
high, and he weighed 500 pounds. Sister 
Mary was a midget of six feet two, and 
only weighed 149 pounds. Elijah wasn't 
very tall, either, being the same height as 
his sister Mary, but he was of pretty fair 
heft, tipping the scales at 212. Matthew was 
six feet two, also, and weighed 220. while 
Eli, standing six feet four, weighed less 
than 200. The youngest girl, Martha, was 
six fet three and 160 pounds in weight. 
She would undoubtedly have been the giant 
of the family, for that was her height and 
weight at the age of fourteen, a few weeks 
before she died. When these measurements 
were taken, a few years ago, the family was 
all together, but since then old Joe and his 
wife have died, and the boys and girls were 
married and scattered a,bout the state. I 
don't know what their progeny have done 
to keep up the family reputation as to Size, 
but I'll bet on 'em to keep up the record." 
Dr. F. R. Day, a resident of Honolulu, 
now in Chicago, condemns Cleveland's Ha- 
waiian policy as an injustice to the people 
of that country.