The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-03-13
The Strongest Man

Frederick Barnaby was educated IT
Harrow, aud thence proceeded 10 Ger
nany. where, under private taition, La
acquired al unusually perfect acqaaini-
snce With tic French. Italian ard Ger
man languages. and Incidentally ial-
bibed taste for gyn.uastics 4, six
teen he, the Youngest If ljO candidates.
passed his examination Tor admission
TO the army, ard AZ the mature age Of
seventeen found hin.s.ll cornet in the
Royal Horse Guards. Al his time his
breast seems to have been fred by the
noble ambition 20 become the stroages.
man In the world. He threw himself
into the pursuit Of music with ail the
ardor since shown in other directions.
and the cup of his JOY must have been
full when precise examination led To
the demonstration OF the TACT that his
arm measured round the biceps exactly
seventeen inches. His playing at Al
dershot was a dumbeil weighing 40
pounds, which he lifted straight out
with one hand, and there vas stand
ing bet Of $40 sterling that no other
man In the camp could perform the
Fencing Club there is TO this day g
dumbsll weighing l22 pounds, and
Captain Barnaby Is the only member
who can lift 1t above his head.
There is story told of early barrack
days which brings pleasantly up a remi-
niscence Of the Tichborne trial A
horse dealer arrived at Windsor with a
pair Of beautiful little ponies, which he
had been commanded to show to the
Queen. Before exhibiting them to Her
Majesty he took them to the cavalry
barracks for display to the officers OF
the Guards. Some of these. by way of
n surprise, led the ponies up stairs into
Barnaby's room, where they were much
admired. But when the time came 10
take leave an alarming difficulty pre-
sented itself The ponies though they had
walked upstairs, could by no means he
induced to walk down again. The off,
GERS were in fix, the horse dealer wasin
despair when young Barnaby settled the
matter by taking up the ponies. one
under each arm, and walking down
stairs, deposited them III the barrack
yard.
Bu, Cornet Barnsby was as skillful
as he WAS strong He was one of the
best amateur boxers Of the day, as Tom
Paddock. Nat Langham and Bob Trav-
ers could testify by their own we'll
earned experience Moreover. he fenced
a. we'll as he boxed, and the turn Of his
wrist, which never failed to disarm =
swordsman. was known in more than
one Of the capitals of Europe. Ten
years ago every body was talking of the
wonderful feat Of the young guardsmsn
who undertook for a small wager to hop
Il quarter of II mile, run a quarter OF u
mile, ride quarter oil a mile. row "a
quarter OF a mile. and walk a quarter
OF q mile in II quarter Of an hour. and
who covered the mile and "a quarter of
distance III ten minutes and twenty sec
onds. Fred Barnaby had, while barely
out Of his teens, realized his boyish
dream and became the strongest man IN
the world But be had also begun to
pay the penalty of success III the coin
of wasted tissues and failing health.
When a man finds, after ANXIOUS and
varied experiments. that waterloo is
the only fern OF nourishment that his
stomach will retain. he is driven 10 the
conviction that there Is something
wrong and that he had better see the
doctor. The result of the young ath
lctcs visit ~ the doctor was that he
mournfully laid down the dumbbells
and the foils, eschewed gymnastics and
took 10 travel.