Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1879-11-21

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all. the feat Of walking five hundred
and thirty miles such a wonderful one
under the circumstances The mum
best soldier Of Stoncwall Jacksons
foot cavalry" IN our estimation, starv-
. ing. barcfooiod, ragged, exposed to all
sorts of weather the summers heat, the
blinling winters sleet, marching oil
6 night fighting all day, performed more
wonders and illustrated more the pow
ers Of human endurance than any o
these heroes of the ring.
, But this matter Of displaying thu
=, powers of endurance of the huma
y frame seems to have become all the rag
i now. and is not confined to any parIic
j. -. cr even 60 one 49,. !
: -. % "nfch il has been subjected
aud invariably the parties have ende,
WIN broken strength and an impaired
constitution, tue result Of this overt \,in.
ing. Some of the exploits Of these am
bilious people are as remarkable as thov
have been useless and unproftable and
may however serve to interest the reader
The English papers have recently
been telling US of the exploits of one
Captain Fred. Burnaby. Of tbo RovoI
Horse Guards, who was possessed Of
marvellous strength. The captain
stands SIX feet four and measures around
the arm seventeen inches whilst the
muscles seem to be of woven whipcords
nc Knocked about the crack pugilists of
England like 'ummies. His ordinary
pIaything was dumb-beIl WEIGHING
no pounds, which he held at arms
length and toyel with as an ordinary
man would an orange. One dav
horse dealer arrived at the b..rrn.Ie,
'hnvinS IN charge two ponies which had
been purchased for the queen. Some
OF the officers led them up stairs. but
could not get the little beasts to venture /
town again. So the captain took ono
lhdcr each arm and carried them Io,..
'''n perfect ease. He was the best
"oFdsnan in all Europe. and coul1
un' Jrr"P, swim and row faster tb.n
ny body else. His travels have boon I
5tenslvc, and he has mastered man..
'nSnages, always and everywhere NOR,
'fmlng some very remarkable feat r. i
pam ne amused himself by THROWING o.
yer Tue garden wall of convent cI
'nNey' The animal fell among the ~ ~
unS' VINO were confirmed in their onin- hi
N 'n"t It was the evil one, when tho of
N"'' SCI up a tremendous braying re
by rapid vibration of is re-
'rs, giving it somewhat the .nnoas
nee OF a windmill, familiar object in 10,
nat country, and the poor nuns fed IN
lsmay from the convent. He journey a..
INTO the interior Of Africa. where he ser
} astounded the natives by lifting bodi- yer
h'pPoPotamos that they instantly
reclaimed nun king with seragiio of ont
ANY dusky and kinky headed wives - G eli,
Ie had much difficulty in declining the ri,
onor. lie crossed the desert on
incl and amazed the Arabs by snap f i",
ing in two the musket of their chief
hich was handed him a moment. But c co,
lie sordid Arab insisted upon payment pu
r the broken gun, whereupon the cap est
in counted down the stipulated num- ' aI
er of coins, twisting the last one asun- lu
4r, as if it had been a cake We could ~ ~
ot tell 1.-THE of the marvellous fcats II
the gallant captain but at last he re- gr
rned home with his stomach complete h fti
broken down, aud now it will retain OF
othing but Roman punch and he who m
as once the strongest man in the world st
now wreck, and gradually being Oh
arvcd into an untimcly grave.
The papers arc full of instances where cl
ooplo are doing all sorts of silly and r
'ohsh things We have the case of the "
How who trundled wheel barrow from 4
ew York to California and back; of '
ergeant Bates who marched with the n
nion flag through every city and ham : :
It of the south, and numbers Of other !
lually ridiculous things. Then we A
ave a French dancing master. Prof |
artier of New York, who waltzed for :,
welve consecutive hours without stop
age or intermission, using up some ten :
r fifteen lady partners. only taking
Turing the time, by way of nourish-
ncnt, three teaspoonfuls of beef tea in =,
IS many winoglasscs of water.
But the craziest of all these people is
,ne DR. H. S. Tanner of Minnesota.
who is firmly convinced that he can live
without eating for months at a time
He asserts he has experimental with
himself and has actually abstained from
my food or Hourishment whatever for
thirty eight days, and could have con-