Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1880-05-13
Strong Men.

honors. When Egenetus, in the
ninety-secord Olympaid, trium-
phant in the games, entered Agri-
gentum, his native horne, he was
attended by an escrort of three
hundred chariots, each drawn by
two white horses and followed BY
the the popnlace, cheering and
waving banners, .-Mile six times
won the palm at '5oth the Olympic
and Pythian games, He is said to
have run mile with a four~year-
old OK upon his shoulders, and
aftcrward killed the animal with a
! blow Of his fist, and ate the entire
carcass in one day So great was
his muscular pcwer that he would
sometimes bind cord around bis
head and 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 pints of wine. Polvdamus
Of Thessalonia was of prodigious
strength and colossal height, and,
it is said, alone apd without wca-
pons, he killed an enormous and
enraSed lion. One day, Git ia So
rccorced) he seized bull by one
cf It's hind feet and the animal only
escaped by leaving Its hoof in the
grasp of the athlete, The Roman
Emperor Maximinus was upwards
of eight feet in height, and, like
Milo of Crotone, could squeeze to
powder the hardest stone with his
fingers and break the leg or jaw of
a horse by kick. His wife's
bracelet served him as ring, and
his everyday meal was sixty pounds
of meat and an amphora Of
wine. Topl.am, who was born
in London in 171O, was possessed
of astonishing strength. His arm
pits, hollow in the case of ordinary
men, were with hin full of muscles
and tendons. He would take
bar OF iron, with its two ends held
in his hands, place the middle Of
the bar behind the nap Of his neck,
and then bend the extrc,nilies by
main force until they met together.
and bend back the iron straight
again. One night, perceivmg a
watchman asleep in his box. he
carried both the man and his shell
to great distance, and deposited
them on the wall of a church yard.
Owing to domestic troubles, he
committed suicide in the prime OF
lite. The tanons Scar,dcrbcrg,
king Of Albania, who was BON in
14l4, was man of great Stature
and his feats i'll sword exercise has
never been cqualled. On one oc-
casion, with a scimitar, he sruck
his antagonist such terrible blow
that lis tremendous force clcaved
him to the waist. He is SAID to
have often cloven in two men who
were clad in armor from head to
| foot. On one occ; sion the brother
and ne thew of a certain Bai'aban,
who had been convicted OF crlelties
| towards the Albanians, were
brought to him, bound together.
Transported with rage he cut them
in two with one stroke of his wea-
pom. Maurice, Count of Saxony,
the hero of Fontel oy, Inherited
the physical vicor of his father,
and was especially noted for the
surprising muscular powe:. or
grip" OF his hands. On one oc-
casion, needing cork-scrcw, he
twisted IA long iron nail round into
the required shape with his fingers,
and with this extemporiz. d impIe-
} ment opened a half dozen bottles
of wine. Another time, when
stopping at village blac ksmitl
shop to have bis horse shod, he
picked up number of new horse
shoes and with his hanLs snapped
, them in two as readily AS if made
of glass, much TO the surprise ant
, disgust Of Tie smith. If history i:
, to be believed, Phavllus Of Gro
tena could jump a distance OF htty
? six feet This exercise was prac-
3 ticed at the Olympic games ant
+ tnrmed part of the course Of tn
Pentathlon. Strut, an Engiisl
5 authority on games and amuse
, ments, speaks of ! YorEish jnmpe
! nane.! Ireland, whose powers wer
= something marvellous, He was 81
$ feet high, and at the age of eigh.
e teen years leaped, without the al
: of a spring-bnard over nine horse
e ranged side by side. He cleared
e cord extended fourteen feet from tn
2 ground with bunnd, crushed
:. bladder suspended at height {
S sixteen feet. and on another oc
y casion light, cleared large wag
o OF covere,! with an awning. Co
h IronsiCe, WHO lived in India, earl
Q in this century, relates that he mt
y in his travels an old, white-lreade
e man who with one leap spran