The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-12-03
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rels and loaded down with wealth
and honors. When Egcnetus IN the
nineiy-second Olympiad, triumphant
In games, entered Agrigentum, his
native home, he WAS attended By an
escort OF 300 chariots, each drawn by
two white horses and followed by the
popuiaee, cheering and waving ban-
n0rs. Milo SIX times won The palm
at both tho Olympic and Pythlan
games. Ilo issaid TO have run mile
with u four year CID OK upon his
shoulders, and afterwards killed. the
animal with blow of his flst, and ate
the entire carcass in one day +!
So great was his muscular power
that no would sometimes bind q cord
round his head and broak IT by the
swelling and pressure oil the veins.
An ordinary meal for Milo was twenty
pounds of meat, rs much bread, and
fifteen pints OF wiue. Iolydamas Of
TessaIia, was OF prodigfous strength
and colossal hoighth, and Il Is said
alone and without weapon, killed
an enormous enraged lion. One day
CT Is recorded) he seized bull by one
Of It's hind feet, and the animal es-
capped only by leaving the hoof In the
grasp OF the athlete. The Roman
Emperor Maximus was upwards OF
eight feet III height, and like Milo
could squeeze to powder the hardest
stono with his fingers .and break the
leg or jay of horse by kick. His
wife's bracelet served him as n ring,
and his every day meal was sixty
pounds of meat aud an nmphors OF
wine.
While prisoner In Germany Rich
ard /. accepted an Invitation TO Il box
ing match with the son OF his jailer.
lie received the FIRST blow, which
made him stagger but, recovering,
with blow OF his flst killed his an.
tagonlst on the spot. Topham, who
was born In London In 1910, was
possessed of enormous strength.
His armplts hollow Ia tho case OF or
dinary men, were with him full Of
muscles aud tendOns. He would take
bar of iron, with It's two ends held
In his hands, place the middle Of the
bar behind his neck, and then bend
the extremities by main force until
they met together, aud bend back the
iron straight again. One night, per-
ceiving tho watchinan asleep Ia his
box, he carried both the man and his
shell TO great distance, and deposit.
ed them on tho wall of Il churchyard.
Owing 10 domestic troubles he COM
mitted suicide in the prime "f life.
The famous Shanderburg, kIag Of
Albania, who wits barn In 1914, was
a man Of great stature, aud his ieAls
Ia sword cxFreise have never been
equaled. On Onp OCCASION, with "A
scimeter, he struck his antagonist
such terrible blow that is tremen-
dous force eleavcd him TO tho waist.
He IS said 10 have often cloven In
two, men who were clad Ia arhioT
from head 10 foot. On one ucc.isiUn
the brother and nephew of a certain
BaIlaban, who had been convicted oi
cruelties towards the Aibauians, were
brought TO him bound together.
Transported with rage be cut them
IN two with one stroke of his weapon
Maurice, Count Of Saxony, the hero
OF Fontenoy, inherited the physica
vigor OF his father, and was especially
noted for the surprising muscular
: power or "grip" OF his hands. Oh
. enc occasion needing cork screw, ,ht
: twisted long iron nail round IL. tn,
required shape with his fingers, ans
: with this extemporized implemen
p opened half dozen bottles OF wine
a Another time when stopping NJ u vii
: lage blacksmith shop TO havehis hors
;, shod, he picked up number Of hors
shoes, and with his hands Snappe
q them In two rs readily us II made {
# glass, much TO the surprise and di'
n gist OF the smith.
N II history Is to be believed, Play
!, lus. Of Crotona, could jump distanC
g OF fifty six feet. The exercises wei
prasticed at the Olympic games an
formed part OF the course Of the Pei
lathion. Strut, an English authoril
n on games and amusements, speaks
q Yorkshire jumper named Irelant
~ whose powers were somoshing ma
velous. lie was six feet high, ar
at the age OF eighteen leaped, witho
the the aid of spring-beard ov
nine horses ranged side by side. +
'? cleared a cord extending fourteen fe
from the ground with a bound, ,cruSh'
with his foot bladder suspended
a height of sixteen feet, and on annt
% or occasion lightly cleared lar
wagon covered with an awnin
Colonel Ironsidc who lived in Ind
early In this century, relates that
met In his travels an old white hair
re man, who, with one leap, cleared {
u. back Of an enormous elephant, flank
IS by six camels of the largest breed.
curious French work, published
cd pals In I745, entitled "The Trat
d. Toward the History OF Wonders PI
od formed at Fairs" mentions an En-
Il IIshman, who at the Fair of ST. G'
-, man in l724, leaped over forty peol
l.e without touching one OF them.
u our days we are familiar with ma
a remarkable exposltions Of strenG
ys and endurance. DIR. Winship wi
the aid of straps, lifted a weight
} a $500 pounds, aud with the little I
las ger OF his right hand could raise
body considerable distance from
) a ground.
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AT recent Grange meeting of St
ling, Mass, Gov. Long delivered
Pa strong, sensible address to those pr