Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-01-06
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loaded down with wealth and honurs
When Egcuetus, in the nincty-sccond
/ OIymplad triumphant in games, On.
tered Agrigcntum, his native home, he
was attended by an escort OF three
hundred charots, each drawn bv two
white horses, aud followed by the pop.
uIace, cheering aud waving banners.
/ Milo six times won the palm M both
4 the Olympic and Pythian games. Tic
Is said u have run n mile with a four.
/ ycar.o!d OK upon his shoulders. and
afterwards killed the animal with one
blow of his fist, and ntc the entire car.
cass in one day - great was his
muscular power that he would bind
q cord around his head aud break it
by the swelling and pressure of the
veins. I'm ordinary meal for Milo
was twenty pounds of meat. tt. much
bread, and fifteen pints Of wine
I Polydamu-, Of Thc-,alia. wa. of
colossal hcightaud prodigious strength,
aud, it Is said, alone and without
weapons, killed an enormous aud en-.
ragged lion One day. it j. recorded.
he seized bull by il- hind feet. and
the animal escaped only by leaving
the hoof in the grasp OF the athlete.
The Roman Emperor Maximiuu-
wa, upward Of eight feet in height,
and, like Milo, Of Crotoua. could
-qccze To powder the hardest stone
with hi. finger, and break the lex Of a
horse by u kick. His wi:e'- bracelet
served him - . ring, and his every.
day rrpa,t was sixty pounds of meat
and m amphora Of wine.
While prisoner ~ Germany, Rich.
ard |. accepted an invitation to a box.
jug match with the son Of hi. iailcr.
lie received the first blow, which made
him staggcr. but recovering. with a
blow oi hi. fist he killed his antagonist
ON the spot. Topham. also an Eng
llshman, born in l7lo, was possessed
of astonishing strength. His armpits,
hollow 10 The case Of ordinary men,
were with him full Of muscles and
tcndons. He would take a bar Of
iron, with its two ends held in hi.
hands, place the middle Of the bar
behind bis neck, aud then bend the
extrcmite- by main force until they
met together, and then bend back the
iron straight again. One night, see.
ing a watchman asleep in his box. he
carried both the man and his she'll 10
a great distance, and put them on the
wall of n churchyard. Owing TO do.
mestic troubles, he committed suicide
in the prime OF life.
The famous Scauderbcrg. King Of
Albania, who was born in li1I. was n
man of great stature, aud his fcat- of
sword exercise have never been cqualed.
On one occasion. with scimitar, he
struck his antagonist such blow that
its force clcavcd him to the waist. lie
is said to have cloveu in two men who
were clad in armor from head to foot,
On one occasion the brother aud
nephew of n certain BalIaban, who
had been convicted Of crueltic- toward
the Albanians. were brought to him
bound together. Transported with
rage, he cut them in two with Que
stroke Of his weapon.
Maurice, Count of Saxony, the hero
of Fontenoy, inherited the physical
vigor of his father, and was especially
noted for the surprising muscular
power, or grip Of his hands On
one occasion, needing corkscrew, he
twisted long iron nail round into the
required shape with his fingers aud
opened half a dozen bottles of wine
with it. Another time, when stopping
at a blacksmith shop to have his horse
shod, he picked up number of new
horseshocs. and with his hands snap
ped them in two as readily rs If made
of glass, much to the disgust of the
smith.
If history is to believed, Pbaryllus
of Crotona, could jump distance of
iiity-six feet. The exercise was prac-
ticed at the Olympic games and form
ed part of the course of Pentathlon.
Strut, an English authority on games
and amusemenls. speaks of Yorkish
jumper named Ireland, whose powers
were marvellous. He was six feet high,
and at the age Of eighteen leaped,
without the aid Of spring board, over
nine horses ranged side by side. lie
cleared a cord extended fourteen feet
from the ground with one bound.
crushed with his foot a bladder sus.
pended at n height of sixteen feet
and on another occasion he lightly
cleared u large wagon. covered with
an awning.
Colonel Tronside, who lived in India
early in this century, relates That he
met in his travels an old white-haired
man who with one leap sprang over
the back Of an enormous elephant
hanked by six camels Of the largest