Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-04-19
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Strong Mep..

Il Ee weakest man can llkI WIN MS
hands about one hundred and tweus
ty-fve pounds; strong man, four
hundred. Topham, a carpenters
could lift eight hundred pounds
He rolled up strong pewter dish
with his fingers; he lifted, with his
teeth and knees, table six feet long
with half a hundred weight at the
end; he bent a poker three inches in
circumference, to right angle, by,
strlkin & it upon his left tforearms anoth
er he bent and unbUnt about his.
neck, and snapped a hempen ropes
two inches in circumference.
A few years ego, there was per-
SON at Oxford, England, who could
hold his arm extended, for halfa
minute, with half a hundred weight
hanging on his little finger. r}
The average weight carried by a
stout porter in London, is two hun-
dred pounds; but there are porters in
Turkey, who, by accustoming them
selves to this kind of burden from an
early period, are able to carry from
seven to nine hundred pounds; though
they walk at slower rate, and on,
ly carry the burden short distance,
We are also told of man, who, by
bending his body into an arch, and
having harness fitted 10 his hips,
was capable OF sustaining a cannon
weighing two or three :aa.a:.ssssass:sisdsl
pounds, and not many winters ago.
tie celebrated Belzoei, then first en-
tering on public life, exhibited himself
to the theatres of London, and by a.
similar kind of Harvesting, was capa-
BILE disappearing, even in an upright
position, a pyramid of ten twelve
men, and surmounted by two or
three children, whose aggregate
weight could not be much less than,
two thousand pounds; with which.
weight he walked repeatedly to-
wards the front Of the stage.
The Son of Marshal Junot. -Anoth
er name has to be added to the obit-
uary of distinguished persons of the
present year. Napoleon Junot,.
Duke of Abrahtes, the elder ofthe
two sons who survived the marshal,
has just died in the 44th year of his
age in a lunatic asylum near Paris.
The wild youth and eccentric career
Of the deceased are thus accounted
for: Notwithstanding the great ir-.
Irregularities of his life, which could
only be explained by partial insanity,
the son OF Junot possesses talents Of
no mean order. AS may be sup.
posed, the imaginative faculty was
predominant. He composed and
published several pieces Of poetry
which had considerable merit not
withstanding, or perhaps because of
their eccentricity. He was also the
author of several dramatic pieces,
and published a considerable NUM-
ber OF romances separately, or in lit-
erary periodicals. He was also an
excellent musician; he spoke and
wrote with much correctness the En-
glish, Spanish and Italian languages,
and was an excellent classical scEol-
ar. For the last few years of his
life, and during the intervals Of his
malady, he devoted himself to the
production of what he considered his
most important work-a translation
ofShakspeare, in verse and prose.
into French. The work is, II ss-
pears, considerably advanced, and it
is curious that it was while he was
employed on the tragedy Of Lear
that the most decided symptoms OF
his malady appeared. The onlysur
viving brother of the deceased, end
| the inherifor Of his fifia 10 ya,4,. 81