Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-05
STRONGER THAN SULLIVAN
A Little Georgia Woman Gives Some Remark.
able Exhibitions os Strength.
Baltimore American

A Little Georgia Woman Gives Some Remark.
able Exhibitions o. Strength
Baltimore American
Georgia has produced another lady VII,
is as full of electricity, or somethfrrra-v
like it, as was the wonderful Lulu Hun,
of the same state, who used to throw BIZ,
men around without much trouble. The
lady, who gave private exhibition "a.
Gently at Ford 5 TO Il few spectators. IA
Mrs Annie Abbott of NMeigeviHa.
petite body of only niuety-eiGht pounds
She is q blonde of tweutv-tG-ee Years
and of pleasing appearance. When seven
years old she went up to her fathers
chair one day and astOnished him bv say.
ing that she could lift him up. ia
laughed at the childish remark. but she
put her hands on the chair and il came
up from the floor. From thas dav it va;
apparent that she had more than muscu-
lar power.
She showed her peculiar power in her
own state ct charitable entertainments,
but never thought of appearing in public
until last February when she was travel
ing in Florida with her husband tor her
health, when the managers of the sub
tropical exposition at Jacksonville pre-
vailed upon her to show what she could
do. Since that time she has appeared
several times in public in Georgia and
South Carolina, and will do so again.
There have been half q dozen OF so pretty
heavy and strong men on the stage, but
she has been more than a match for am
or all.
A man sat in an ordinary chair, leaned
back on its rear legs, ana when Ms
Abbott simply put her hands under bis
ears the chair and man jumped about
three inches. Five men were then piled
up on the chair-the heaviest PIG pounds
and all the Others lGO-aud when she laid
her hands on the big man 5 ears the chair
jumped up again. She stood on one foot
and let a billiard cue rest in her hands
without graspinG il, and one, two and
three men could not push her over. The
com bined weight Of the three men, e1-
erting all their muscular power, was
over four hundred pounds. She pushed
them all about the stage. Heavy men
sat in a rocking char ana with her m
gers just touching the back, they could
not rock. The 2IG-pOunder and Others
put their hands under her elbows ana
tried with might and main TO lift the
ninety eight pounds, but in vain. IN
none of the trials could the men DO any
thing with her. =
Several years ago she was at the Hot
Springs in Arkansas, when she was
matched against John l.. sullivan, ol.
the brute sIugger could do nothing with
her. When she has her hand Oh 'l'
chair or on any wooden substance sl5
waits about a minute, and the power
comes, but the muscles do not become
rigid. She says the feats never tire her,
but Just before a trial she feels nervous
and weary. She feels well after throw
ing strong people about.
She must stand on wood and opsia'
with wooden chairs and sticks. When ~
contact with carpets and iron she can ~
nothing. Recently, when exhibiting III
the South, somebody connected wiz
with her body and grounded it,, ana III
mediately she was Powerless. men oI.
pushes against her the impression is U.S..
of the resistance Of a wall. She -oya5
quite delicate. She is a quiet lady, a--
very modest.