Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1880-04-17
Feats Of Siren 9Th.

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Egenetus, in the ninety second Olym-
piad, triumphant in games entered
Acrigentum, 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 and waving banners. Milo SIX
times won the palm at both the Olym-
pic and Pythian games. He is said to
have run mile with four-year-oid OK
upon his shoulders and afterwards killed
the animal with blow of his fist, and
ate the entire carcass in one day! SO
great was his muscular power that he
would sometimes bind a cord around
his head and break it by swelling and
pressure of the veins. An ordinary meal
for Milo was twenty pounds Of meat, as
much inert, and fifteen pounds Of wine.
Polydamus, of Thessalia, was of pro-
digious strength and colossal height,
and, it is said, alone and without weap-
ons, killed an enormous and enraged
lion. One day, it is recorded, he seized
q bull by one of it's hind feet, and the
animal escaped only by leaving the 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 a ring,
and his every day meal was sixty pounds
of meat and an amphora of wine.
While prisoner in Germany, Richard
1. accepted an invitation to boxing
match with the son of his jailor. tie
received the first blow, which made
him stagger; but recovering, with a
blow of his fist killed his antagonist on
tho spot. Topham, who was born IN
London in 1710, was possessed of aston
ishing strength. His armpits, hollow IN
the case of ordinary men, were with him
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 nape of his neck, and
then bend the cxtremities by mail
force until they met together, and benz
back the iron straight again. One night
perceiying Waterman asleep in hi
box, he carried both the man and hi
shell to great distance, and deposited
them on the wall of a churchyard. Ow
ing to domestic troubles, he committee
suicide in the prime of life The ia
nous Scanderberg, king of Albania
who was born in 1414, was a man q
great stature, and his feats in swor
exercise have never been equalled. q
one occasion, with a scimetar, he struc
his antagonist such terrible blow tina
its tremendous force cleaved him t
the waist. He is said to have oftc
cloyen in two men who were clad i
armor from head to foot. On one occ;
sion the brother and nephew Oh a Certal
Ballaban, who had been convicted
cruelties toward him, bound togethe
Transported with rage, he cut them
two with one stroke of his weapon
Maurice, Count of Saxony, the hero
Fontenoy, inherited the physical Wig
of his father, and was especially note
for the surprising muscular power,
"grip," of his hands. On one occaslo
needing a corkscrew, he twisted lol
iron nail round into the required sha
with his fingers and with this exteml
rized implement opened a halt-doz
bottles of wine. Another time, VIII
stopping at village blacksmith sh'
to have his horse shod, he picked up
number of new horse-shoes, and wi
his hands snapped them in two as res
ily as if made of glass, much to t
O surprise and disgust of the smith.
If history is to be believed, PhylI
of Crotona could jump distance
fffy-six feet. The exercise was pr
ticcd at the Olympic games, and torn
part of the course of Pentathlon. Strr
an English authority on games
amusemcnts, speaks Of lorkish juI
er named Ireland, whose powers W
something marvellous. He was six
high, and at the age of eighteen y'
leaped, without the aid OF Il sprl
board, over nine horses side by side.
cleared cord extended fourteen
from the ground with bound, crus
with his foot a bladder suspended
the height of sixteen feet, and on
other occasion lightly cleared Ia
wagon covered with awning. Col'
Ironside, who lived in India early
this century, relates that he met IN
travels an old white-haired man, "
with one leap, sprang over the BACK
an enormous elephant tlanked by
cameis of the largest breed. A c
ous French work, published i'll Paris
1745, entitled "The Tracts Toward
History of Wondersperformed at fM
mentions an Englishman, who' at
fair Of St. iermain in 1924, leaped
forty PEE without touching one
them. owl ""s WV
with Il remarkable exposition
strength and endurance. Dr. WINS
with the aid of straps, lifted a we
Of 1850 pounds, and with the