The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1877-06-06
The Strongest Man.


Frederick Dalnaby was educated at Har-
ow, and thence proceeded to Germany,
where, under private tuition, he acquired an
unusually perfect acquaintance with the
French. italian and German languages, and
incidentally imbibed a taste for gymnastics
Atsixteen he the youngest Of 40 candidates.
passed his examination for admission to the
army, and OF the mature age OF seventeen
found himself cornet in the Royal Horse
Guards. At this time bis breast seems to
have been fred by the noble ambition to be-
come tho strongest man in the world. He
threw himself into the pursuit of music with
all the ardor since shown IN other directions,
and the cup Of his JOY must have been full
when precise examination led to the de-
monstration of the fact that his arm measur-
ed round tho biceps exactly seventeen in
ches His playing at Aldershot was dumb
bell weighing ITO pounds which he lifted
straight out with one hand, and there was
standing bet of e10 sterling that no other
man in the camp could perform the same
feat. At the rooms of the London fencing
Club there is to this day dumbbell weigh
ing 122 pounds, and Captain Bar1laby is the
There Is story told of early barrack days,
which brings pleasantly mp "Reminiscences OF
the Tichborno trail horse dealer arrived
at Windsor With pair Of beautiful little POI
MES, which he had been commanded to show
to the Queen. Before exhibiting them to
Her Majesty be took them to the cavalry bar
racks for display to the officers Of the Guards
Some of these, by way Of surprise, led the
ponies upstairs into Barnaby's room, where
they were much admired. But when the
time came to take leave an alarming difficult
" presented itself The ponies, though they
had walked upstairs, could by no means DO
induced to wall. down again. The officers
were in o fix; the horse dealer was in de-
spair, when young Barnaby settled che mat
ter by taking up the Ionies, one undSr eash
arm, and, walking down stairs, deposited
them ID tho baaraek yard
But cornet Bainaly was as ssiful as he was
strong lie was one Of the best amateur
boxers Of the day. as Tom Paddock, Nat
Langham and Bob Trnyers could testify OF
their own well earned experience Moreover,
he fenced as well as he boxed, and tho turn
of his wrist, which never failed TO disarm o
swordsman. was known In moro than one OF
tho capitals of Europe. Ten years ago every
body was talking of the wonderful feat Of the
young guardsman who undertook for small
wager to hop quarter Of a mile run quar-
ter of mile, ride quarter of a mile row q
quarter of q mile and walk a quarter OF
mile in quarter of an hoar, and who coy
cred the mile and a quarter of distance in
ten minutes and twenty seconds. Fred Bar
naby had, while barely out Of his teens,
realized his boyish dream and became the
strongest man in the world But he had al
so begun to pay the penalty of success in
the coin Of wasted tissues and failing health.
When q man finds, after anxious and varied
experiments, that waterieeis the only form
Of nourishment that his stomach will retain,
he is driven to tie conviction that there is
something wrong and that he had better SEQ
tho doctor. The result Of the young attn
lets's visit to the doctor was that he mourn
fully laid down the dumb bolls and the foils.
eschewed gsannastcs AMI took to travel.