Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-07

riding powerful cSMger' in battlss&s
horse got maddcned with cSsit&5ii
undertook to run away. sz;il il s. j;;r;|s;
tracks BY tho! tcrribtS III III q T.
cxcrtcd on the auiniaia fsst ~ sisI; & 81
pressing against them with his 4 i
One of the oldest and sat skhe same time,
most remarkable exhibitions OF mechani.
cal strength and dcxtcrity is that of cup
porting pyramids. 1t is described by tho
Roman poet Claudian, and has been.
known i'll Europe ever since. The cele-!
bratcd Egyptiun traveller, Belzoni, be-
fore he began his career rs an expiorcri
in Egypt performed this feat in various
parts of Great Britain. After all, one Of
the most extraordinary fcats of this
nature. seeming TO be an exercise of
strength, and which - really nothing of
the sort, is that i'm which heavy mani
is raised from the floor with the greatest
facility by several persous placing each
one or two fingers under him. The way
this is done is 40 follows: Tho heaviest
person IN the pnrty lies down, say upon
two chairs, his logs eoeing supported BY
one and his head by the other. -Four
pcrsons-each ut one leg aud one ut each
shoulder--thcn lift the body, and thoy
fluid the dead weight to be very great,
from the difficulty which they find in
supporting him. Now let the four per-
sons take hold Of his body as before, re-
spending to two signals, to be given by
the person to be lifted, by clapping his
hands. At the first signnl he himself
and the four liftcrs begin to draw long
and full breath, and whom the inhalation
il completed the second signal il given
for raising the person from the chair. TO
his own surprise aud that Of his bearers,
he rises with the greatest facility rs if
he WE'RE no hcnvor thnn feather. When
one of the bearers performs his part lily
by making the inhalation out OF time tho
part Of the body which he tries TO lift, is
left, us it were, behind. This is II trick
easily tried and very amusing.
a few years ago great deal of excite
mcnt was created by the exhibition Of u
young Georgia girl alleged to be clcctro-
magnetic or otherwise specially gifted,
who did some remarkable fcats of appar-
cnt strength. This young woman innu.
snratcd an epidemic of Georgia girls,
who frolickud over the country doing all
'"'hiOi W CURIOUS lcuJ5 anu IricKS oil
strength, pulling averaged sized young
dudes and mashcrs around the stage,
sitting on chairs absolutely discomiting
all Efforts To lift them, etc At length
Pennsylvania broke out with similar
disorder, the principal instance being
Miss Flora Coylc, pretty young girl Of
fifteen, who won't To the public school in
Pittsburs This young woman would
twist stick two feet long hold by
stou; young man, brought up from tho
Audience, quite out of his hands, no mat
ter how much effort he might make to
keep hold of it. She did not clasp tho
stick, but held the palms Of her hands
against the. ends Two young men,
weighing 100 and i7S pounds rcspcc-
| lively, cssaycd to hold IN ordinary chair
down to the floor, but the little miss, by
| placing the palms of her hands against.
tho chair, forced thom a. over the atngc.
Three men, weighing in the aggregate
h33 pounds, then mounted chair, but
shc forced them around the stage with
apparent ease, though tho chair broke
with their weight -Four men were tltcn
placed upon it, but she did the same
with Thorn MS with the three, and thon
the audience howlcd themselves hoarsc
over the performance. -Neto York HernM.