The true northerner., 1881-04-22
FAT AND MUSCLE.
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Daniel Lambert was born of ordinary
parents Mt Leicester. England, on March
l3, ITO. Up to the age of 10 he was
simply muscular fellow, able to lift
great weights and carry 900 pounds with
ease. Then he succeeded his father as
keeper OF the prison, and the sedentary
life thus necessitated began TO tell upon
his bulk.
In 1898 he walked to London from
Woolwich, to reduce himself He
weighed at that time 448 pounds. The
attempt proved unavailing. He grewso
fat that he could no longer attend to the
duties of his office, SO the Magistrates,
In consideration of his humane treat
ment of the prisoners and his general ef-
ficiency, retired him on pension of
ESQ. Fat as he was, or rather because
he was 80 fat, he was an excellent
swimmer, and taught that nrt to hun
dreds of youne people at Leicester. In
consequence of his immense bulk he
could swim with ease with two men OH
his back.
After his retirement he became such q
public show that he determined to go to
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count. He went Ill 1906, unable to walk
it this time, III a vehicle which had TO be
built expressly for him. He lived Mt va
rious places in London, and was assisted
by every one, from the King down.
Then he made a tour of the country
He enjoyed good health. ate moderate
ly, and drank nothing but water was an
intelligent and well-informed man, and,
wonder OF wonders, possessed n heauti-
ful, clear and melodious tenor voice.
In June, 1909, Lambert was weighed.
He tipped the beam at 739 pounds. His
measure around the body was three
yards four inches, and he was one yard
four inches around the leg. Each suit
OF his clothes cost 500. Seven ordinary
sized men were repeatedly buttonod
under his waistcoat without straining "a
button. He died on June 20, 1909. His
coffin was six feet four inches long, four
feet four inches wide and two feet four
inches deep. 1t took ll2 superficial
feet of plank to make it, Its form WAS
that OF square packing-case. 1t was
built on two aXletrees and four wheels.
The wall of the room in which he died
Qor he had long been incapable of walk
ing upstairs) was taken away, and he was
thus hauled to the grave. Twenty men
worked half an hour getting the colossal
corpse into It's last resting-place 10y slid
ing 1T down an inclined plane. Lambert's
fatal disease was dropsy.
Another monster was Edward Bright,
a miller OF Maiden, who died on Nov.
10, 1850, ut the age of 80. He was
an actYe man to within a couple OF
years OF his death, when his corpulency
weighed him down and made life mis-
cry TO him. At his demise he weighed
GIG pounds. When he was IL years
old Bright had weighed IA pounds.
James Mansfield, Il butcher, died at
Dibden, In Essex, on Nov. 8, 1862, III
his SD year. Though not above the
ordinary height, he measured nine feet
around, and weighed 462 pounds. When
sitting III his chair, made expressly for
his use, his abdomen covered his knes,
and hung down almost 10 the ground.
He could only lie ON his side, and his
head bad 10 be bolstered III certain
way to prevent suffocatlop.
The famous Irish giant was born in
Kinsale In 1760. His real name was Pat
rick Cotter, and he originally laboled as a
bricklayer. He was eight feet seven and
one-hah inches high at the age OF Is, when
he ceased showing. He died on Sept.
3, 1906, at the Hot Wells, Bristol. He
had horror OF body-snatC hers, so his
grave was made twelve feet deep in solid
rock. His coffin, OF slead, was nine feet
two inches long, and three feet across
the shoulders. No hearse could be pro-
cured long enough to hold the coffin
it took fourteen men to carry it, and
had to be lowered into the grave with
pulleys.
Milo, OF Crotona, famous Greek ath-
lete, is said to have run mile with
4-year-old OK upon his shoulders, and
afterward killed the animal with one
blow OF his fist, and ate the entire car
cass In one day. SO great was his NUS
cular power that he would bind cord
around his head and break it by the
swelling pressure of the veins. An or
dinary meal for Milo was twenty pounds
of meat, as much bread, and fifteen
pints of wine.
The Roman Emperor Maximinus was
upward OF eight feet in height, and,
like Milo, could squeeze to powder the
hardest stone with his fingers, and break
the leg of horse by kick. His wife's
bracelet served him as ring, and his
everyday repast was sixty pounds of
meat and an an,phora of wine.
The famous Scanderberg, King OF Al
bania, who was born in 14l4, was man
of great stature, and his feats at sword
exercise have never been equaled. On
one occasion, with his cimeter, lie struck
his antagonist such blow that its force
cleaved him to the waist. He is said TO
have cloven in two men who were clad
in armor from head to foot. Maurice,
Count of Saxony, the hero of Fontenoy,
inherited the physical vigor of his
father, and was especially noted for the
surprising muscular power of his hands.
On one occasion, needing a cork-screw,
he twisted a large iron nail round into
the required shape with his fingers.
Another time, when stopping at a black
smith shop to have his horse shod, he
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