Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-01-25
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Muscular strength:
The muscular powerof the human
body is indeed wonderful. A Turk
ish porter will trot a rapid pace, and
carry weight of six hundred pounds.
Milo, a celebrated athletic Crotona,
in Italy, accustomed himself to carry
the greatest burthsns, and at length
became a monster in strength. Iti
said he carried ON his shoulders an
OK, a years oldpweighing upwards of
one thousand pounds, for about 40
yards, and afterwards killed it with
one blow of his fist. He was seven
times crowned at the Pithian games,
and six 1.-THE Olympian.
He presented himself the seventh
time, but not 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 preceptor and his pupils ow-
ed their lives. The pillar which sup
portedthe roof ofthe school sudden
ly gave way, but Milo supported the
whole weight of the building, and
gave the philosopher time TO escape.
inhis old age, Milo attempted 10 pull
up tree by its roots and break it.
| lie partly effected it; but his strength
being gradually exhausted, the tree
Wen cleft reunited, and left his hand
pincbed in the body Of it. He was
alone, and being unableto disengage
himself, died nthat position.
Haller mentioned that he saw a
man whose finger was caught in a
chain, at the bottom of mine, by keep
ing il forcibly bent, supported by that
means the weight of his whole body, ti5y
one hundred and fifty pounds, until
he was drawn upto the sutface, dis
tance of SIX hundred feet.
Augustus Xl, King of Poland,
could roll up a silver plate like a sheet
of paper, and twist the strongest
horse shoe asunder. u5
"A Frenchnan attached 10 Rock
well & Stones circus last spring, was
able TO resist the united efforts of -four
horses, as waswitnessed by hundreds
III New I ork and other places.
ilA lion is said to have left the i'm
preston of his teeth upon a piece Of
solid iron. ..
The most prodigious power of mus.
Gle is exhibited by fish. The whale
moves with velocity through the
dense medium of water that would
carry him, if continued at the lme
rate, round the world in little less
than a fortnight; and swordfsh has
heen known to strike his weapon
quite through the oak plank of ship.
7G ng E/eStern Let. Mess.
GREAT NAMEs.--There is magic
III & naa;c, notwithstanding what The
poet says about the rose. Fhe edi-
tor Of the Richmond Examiner en-
forces the truth of this remark in the
following paragraph:
There is no magic like that Of a
name. 1t throws an illusion around
a pebble or an old bone, and it is
worshipped as holy relic. BY its
influence an ugly piece of rusty iron,
which has served a Roman legionary
for spear head, is valued by its pos
SCISSOR at much more than its weight
| in gold. A letter from Lord Bur
leigh 10 MS steward, directing beans
TO be mixed with the oats on which
his horses were fed, is thought wor-
thy Of careful editing, and is as care
fully perused by thousands of educa.
: ted people, people who would throw
aside with contemptuous indifference
an eloquent review or able leading
article of their own times which has
no great name to endorse it. The
most common speeches and the flat
test, boldest, most nauseatIng at
Itempts al witticism by an individual
who has managed to acquire some
celebrity. are eagerly seized on as the
richest gems and Jewels of though
and genius. Thus, when Mr.. Clay
! remarked to the editor Of the Her
aid, on entering his press room, this
is the place where you forge your
thunderbolls.' the said brilliant speech
was thought worthy Of ecstatic pub,
licatiop over the entire continent, II
he he had said, Sir, this is a very cold
day, it would have been deemed
I equally worthy of repetition. By faT
I the greater nun berofthe productions
most admired in ourtimes depend foi
a celebrity entirely upon the names at
. tached 10 them. Everything thai
Ia great man does is believed to bs
pRreatl"
Macaulay, at The close Of a LONG
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