Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-05-08
MUSCULAR

The power e&erted by the action Of the
muscles in the human body is immense
Borellus first demonstrated that the force eX-
erted within the body greatly exceeds the
weight TO be moved, and that nature, in fact,
employs an astonishing, we mightalmost say,
superiluous power To move a small weight.
1t has been calculated that the deltoid mus
Gle alone, which is situated near the top of
the shoulder, when employed in supporting a
weight Of fifty pounds, exerts a force equal
to two thousand four hundred and sixty-eight
pounds. An idea of the force exerted in the
human body when in progressive motion, may
be formed from the violence of the shock re-
ceived when the foot unexpectedly strikes
against an object in running. The strongest
bones are sometimes fractured by the action
of the muscles.
The muscular power in the human body is
indeed wonderful. A Turkish porter will
trot at a rapid pace, carrying a weight of six
hundred pounds. Milo, a celebrated athlete
of Crotona, in Italy, early accustomed him
self to carry the greatest burthens, and by
degrees became a monster in strength. 1t is
said that he carried on his shoulder an OK four
years old. weighing upwards of one thousand
pounds, for above forty yards, and afterwards
killed it with one blow of his fist. He was
seven times crowned at the Pythian games,
and six at the Olympian. He presented him
self the seventh time, but no one had the
courage to enter the list against him. He
was one Of the disciples of Pythagoras, and
to his uncommon strength the learned precep-
tor and his pupils owed their lives. The
pillar which supported the roof of the school
suddenly gave way, but Milo supported the
whole weight of the building and gave the
philosopher time to escape. In his old age
Ailo attanntpd to null mn n froo hu zee rootc
and break it.. IIo partly effected il, but his
strength being gradually exhausted, the tree,
when cleft, reunited, and his hands remain
ed pinched in the body of it. He was then
alone, and being unlbleto disengage himself,
died in that position.
Halter mentions that he saw a man whose
finger being caught in a chain, at the bottom
of a mine, by keeping it forcibly bent, sup
ported by that means The weight of his whole
body, one hundred and fifty pounds, until he
was drawn up to the surface, a height Of six
hundred feet.
Augustus N, King Of Poland, could roll
up a silver plate like a sheet of paper, and
twist the strongest horseshoe asundtr.
A Frenchman who was attached TO Rock
well & Stones Circus. last spring, was able
to resist the united strength of four horses,
and was witnessed by hundreds in New York
and in other places. A lion is said to have
left the impression of his teeth upon a piece
of solid iron.
The most prodigious power of muscle is
exhibited by fish. The whale moves with a
velocity through the dense medium of the
water that would carry him, if continued at
the same rate, round the world in little less
than a fortnight; and a sword fish has been
known to strike his weapon quite through
the naE miami nf n chin
The ELoQUENCE OF MoTloN.-UIMiam C..
PreSton.-Every one has read of the action,
action, action of Demosthenes, and of what a
variety of emotions and passions Roscius
could express by mere gesture; let it not be
supposed, however, that such projections of
art belong to the ancients only. The follow
ing anecdote of the Hon. William G.. Pres
ton, is Illustrative Of our remark:
Some years ago, among 4 thousand of others,
we were listening to one of his splendid ha-
rangues from the stump. Beside us was one,
as deaf as a post, in breathless attention,
catching, apparently, every word that fell from
the orators lips. Now the tears Of delight
would roll down his checks, and now, in an
ungoverndble ecstacy, he would shout out APP
plauses, which might have been mistaken for
the noise of a small thunder storm.
leilSln IICStOH lduncneQ out one OF those
passages of massive defamation which those
who have heard him, know him to be so Ca
pable of uttering. In magnificent splendor,
1t was what Byron has described the noun
tain-storms of Jura. It's effect upon the null
titude was like a whirlwind. Our deaf friend
could contain himself no longer; but bawling
into our ear, as if no would blow it open with
a tempest,
Who's that a speaking? 7" cried he.
civilian Z. Preston," replied we-as
loud as our lungs would let us.
who" inquired he, still louder than be-
fore.
civilian C.. Preston, of S. Carolina" re-
piled wealmost splitting our throatin the effort.
swell! well !'-returned he-'I can't
hear a darn word, he or you are saying, bat,
great Jericho! don't he do the motions splen-
did pr South t~arohniaa.
Coon FEELINGs.-We know a blunt old
fellow in the State of Maine W o sometimes
hit the nail on the head more pat than the
philosophers. lie once heard a man much
praised for his "gOod feelings" Every body
Joined and said HE man was possessed of ex-
cellent feelings.
"Nhat has he done :" asked our old genius.
"Oh, i'll every thing he was a man Of fine
benevolent feelings" was the reply.
"Wha has he donel" cried the old fellow
again.
by this time the company thought it neces-
sary to show some of their favorite's doings.
They began to cast about in their minds, but
the old man still shouted ''svhat has he dons:?"
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