The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-10-16
Some Famous fsats Of Strength.


lete was crownod With laurels and load d
down with wealth aud honors. When Egg
eneius, in the ninety 0lympiad,
triumphant in games, entered Agrigentum,
his native home, he was attended by an
escort Of three hundred chariots, each drawn
by two white horses, and followed by the
populace, cheering aud waving banners
Milo six times won the palm at both the
Olympic and Pythian games. He is said
TO have run a mile with q four-year old Ok
upon his shoulders, and afterward killed
the animal with one blow OF his fist, and
ate the entire carcass 10 ono day. So great
was his muscular power that he would bind
cord round his head aud break it BY the
swelling and pressure of the veins. An
ordinary meal for Milo was twenty pounds
Of meat, as much bread, and fifteen pintE
Of wine.
Polydamus, Of Thessalia, was Of colossa
height aud prodigions strength, and, It il
said, alone and withou. weapons, killedar
enormous and enmged lion. One day, /
is recorded, he seized bull BY its hinS
feet, and the animal escaped only BY leav
ing the hoof in the grasp Of the athlete.
The Roman Emperor Maximinus was up
ward Of eight feet in height, aud like Mill
Of Crotona, could squeeze To powder tn
hardest stone with his fingers and breal
the leg Of horse by kick. Ills wife
bracelet served him as ring, and his ever
day repast was sixty pounds Of meat an
an amphora Of wine.
While prisoner in Germany, Richar
|. accepted an invitation to a boxing mate
with the sou Of his jaior. He receive
the first blow, which made him stagge
but, recovering, with blow of his fist b
killed his antagonist on the spot Tophan
also an EDglishman, born in i710, ";
possessed Of astonishing strength. II
!, armpits, hollow In tho case Of ordinaI
men, were with him full Of muscles an
tendons. He would take bar Of irol
with its two ends held 10 his hands, pla,
the middle Of the bar behind Lis neck, al
then bend the extremeties by main for
until they met together, and bend back Il
iron straight again. One night, seeing
watehman asleep in bis box, he carried bo
the man and his shell to great distane
and put them on the wall Of a churchyar
Owing to domestic troubles, he commit
suicide in the prime of life.
The famous Scanderberg, King Of
bania, who was born in l4l4, was m
of great stature, and his feats of sword G
ercise have never been equalled On o
occasion, with a scimitar, he struck
antagonist such blow that It's force elei
ed him to the waist. He is said to hs
cloven in two men who were clad 10 arm
from head to foot. On one occasion
brother and nephew Of certain BALLAD
who had been convicted ofcruelties tow
the AlbSnians, were brought to him boz
together. Transported with rage, he
them in two with one stroke Of bis Weap
Maurice, Count Of Saxony, the hero
FOntenoy, inherited the physical vigor
- his father, aud was especially noted for
surprising muscular power, or "griP,
his hands. On one occasion, needin
. corkscrew, he twisted long iron nail ro
into the required shape with his hnl
and opened half dozen bottles Of v
inn with IT, Another time, when stoppin,
,n9 blacksmith shop 10 have his horse 81
,. he picked up number new horse sh
inc and with his hands snapped them in
az, as readily rs if made Of glass, much to
- disgust Of the smith.
nj. If history is to be believed, Phayllui
ct Crotona, could jump distance Of fifty
~ feet The exercise was practised at
'bo Olympic games and formed part Of
. course ofthe Pentathlou Strut, an L
IA lish authority on games and amuseme
.be speaks ola Yorkish jumper named Irela
be whose powers were marvellous He
ed six feet high, aud at the age Of eight
hs leaped, without the aid Of spring boi
Ter over nine horses ranged side by side
~ cleared cord extended fourteen feet e.
az the ground with one bound, crushed v
Ter his foot bladder suspended at hei
,ot Of sixteen feet and on another occas
n. be lightly cleared large wagon, cove
ed with an awning. How is that for hig
,as Colonel lrouside, who lived in In
nd early in this century, relates that be 1
,.s in his travels an old white. haired man
,,s with one leap spraUg over the back Of
IN enormous elephant fanked by six can
I'D of the largest breed. A curious Frel
81 work, published in Paris 10 1T45, entit
nv "The Tracts Towards the History Of w
oS ders Performed at Fairs" mentioned
~ Englishman, who at the fair ofSt. Germ
ill IN 1924, leaped over forty people with
Il. touching one Of them. In our own {
"a We are familiar with many remarkable
a positions Of strength and endurance,
"a Winship, with the aid Of straps, LITE,
el weight Of $500 pounds, and with the
4. tie finger Of his right hand could raise
an body a considerable distance from
N ground.