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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

Faris he received large sums for nosiny
ior scuiptors and painters, and his photo,
graphs sold for II time better than any
OF the other public favorites. Even here
MS photographs have good and STEADY
SAFE because of his manly beauty. In his
WORK sandow is said to be the pcIsoni(i.
cation OF foroeful grace.
About the iast of the famou, strono
men to fall victim to Shadows power
was the noted ''chain breaker" Samson.
and he fell after n long and bitter strup.
gle.
Dut ut his own particular specially.
breaking steel chains. Samson can still
claim first place. Here is partial list of
some OF his feats: Breaking with one
blow OF his first steel chain stretched
between posts, and capable of sustaining
strain of GOOO pounds; tearing apart
the links Of the same chain in twenty or
thirty pieces by wrapping it around his
hands and pulling in opposite directions,
breaking three steel chain bracelets on
his biccps at the same time by the sud.
den expansion CT the muscles, and lastly
aud best of all, the breaking in half of
silver dollar or half dollar with the
thumb aud foretinger of either hand.
Only one other living man is said to do
THIS silver piece trick, and he is not likely
10 cause Samson any worriment profess
slonally, since he is the present Car of
Russia. Although Samson is the only
strong man doing the chain breaking act
it is ut all strength that does it. a lit
tic knowledge of metals helps him ma.
terially.
Another prominent performer, and
quite alone in his act, is Andrew Hull,
who is styled the ilamboyaut emu with
the IRON Skull" Hull cannot properly be
classcd with the strong men, since he
does not lift heavy weights, and in ap-
pearnncc is mere STRIPPING compared
with them.
He has rocks broken on his head with
n slcdgc hammer, and does not nppear
TO sutIer from the blows. He has been
doing this, or rather getting It done, for
the last two years, at least eight times n
day. The rocks that are shattered on
his head vary in weight from eighty
pounds up to his record rock, which
weighed 1SG pounds. This rock was of
Scotch granite, and it took thirty-threc
blows OF twelve-pound sledgc hammer
III the hands of stalwart athlete to
shattcr the rock. This feat was lately
accomplished before the Gate City Ath-
!etIc Club, of San Francisco. At another
time refractory rock, weighing 124
pounds, was struck sixty-six blows, while
1t rested on Hull Uranium. before it broke.
And the blows were not light ones, for
they were struck by quarIymau.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

OF fifty to sixty pounds, and, as stated
above, on the muscles of the neck NOT
ON his head.
Did you ever hold a piece of leo in
your hand and pound it with a pick2
IL you have you will realize how little
the palm of your hand receives the force
OF the blow. That is the case with the man
with the ''iron SKULL" and is also the
principle applied by Miller, who breaks
rocks with blow of his fist. Only in
his case tho position of the ice pick ia
reversed. Miller holds the rock on -
sharp pointed iron with one hand and
strikes it sharp blow with the other
hand
Tic cowboys feat with the horses is
easier than it appears. The lettering of
the board shifts the weight constantly
aud so the cowboy is bearing weight
OF l200 to $500 pounds instea of $500
or 5ooo pound-no great weight to bear
when 1T is remembered that the ordin-
ariiy strongly built athlete can lift in
harness from 1900 to 1000 pounds.
The man in the circus who mills
against horses is also good example
OF the deception practised by these
gentlemen; but this trick is easy of ex.
plana'ion, and has some time since ceased
TO be nn attraction. Each and all wear a
harness that has straps and metal buckles
running from tncir wrists to their ankles.
All the man does is to keen himself
straiS ut.-1e'o Tors L{erdk.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04
EN0LAND's AGED ADMIRAL.

Sir Provo Wallis Has Boon Going to Soa
AMI Fighting Tor Eighty-sevon Years.
Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, the
senior Admiral of the British fleet. eel
ebrated his hundredth birthday on
Sunday last, and is still in the service
In no other country in the world would
such q thing be possible. and it has
never occurred in England before. The
old man is still hale and hearty and, to
all Appearances, likely to enjoy life for
some time longer. He has drawn paw
from the navy for ninety-siv years, has
been actually in tho service for ninety
OF these, and it is eighty-seven years
since he first went to ca. He was
born Mt Halifax, Nova Scotia, April II,
1871, while his father was stationed
there as chief clerk of the navy yard,
and, according to custom then pre-
valilnS IN the case of sons Of officers or.
people of influence, was placed on the
pay roll OF one of the vessels of the navy
when he was but 4 years old In 1900,
when 9, he went aboard the Cleopatra
for training. and four years later made
his first voyage in har. The Cleopatra,
after fight in midocean, was captured
by the French frigate Vile lie Milan,
but was rescued by another British
vessel week later. LII 1908, at the
age OF seventeen, he was made a Sec
ond Lieutenant, and was in many &c
tons during the French war. He was
Second Lieutenant of the Shannon
her that frigate defeated The Chesn-
peakc IN the famous fight off Boston
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

1t will doubtless surprise those who have
seen Samson ut work to know that the
hardest part of Samson's act is to pre-
vent those links IRON swapping prema-
rurely. But it is fact, as the writer
well knows, for he has seen Samson be.
hind the scenes and in the workshop
carefully prying wide open every link
in his chain and as carefully bending
them together again.
The result is to fracture each and
every link through the core, but oddly
enough preserving the skin intact. ANY
sudden strain thereafter put. on the
chains is sure to make them snap like
rotten cords. That is the secret of
Samson's work with the chai-s given to
the public for the first time.
Hull, who has the rocks broken on
his head, wears an iron cap which fits
tightly and has square top surface.
The cap weighs 1874 pounds. 1t has
handles which are held by Hull in such
way that it brings the force of the
blow not on the skull but on the muscles
of the neck. A twelve pound sledge
welded by strong man will ordinarily
not hita blow harder than 1875 pounds.
and the force of that is usually lessened
by the careful aim it is necessary to take
Then the thickness OF the stone and iron
takes away also from the force of the
impact fully fifty per cent. Hull is
therefore really OILY sustaining blow
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

But Hull isn't satisfied with getting
rocks broken on his skull. He is trying
to accnstom himself to having chunks OF
pig iron broken on his Uranium. 1t is
better to have thick skull sometimes
than skull full OF brains.
Sebastian Miller is another strong man
who has specially. Breaking cobble
stones with Il blow of his fist is his chief
claim to distinction rs strong man, al
though some years ago Miller was n
wrestler of note.
Cowboy Samson" is still another OK.
ample of what the strong men do in the
way of variety of muscular acts.
The Cowboy" puts his heels on one
platform and his neck Oil another, thus
making bridge. Across his body a
plank is placed, and on each end of the
plank is stationed horse, the two play.
ing seesaw. The Cowboys body thus
frequently supports $500 to 5000
pounds.
There are tricks in ali trades and some
OF the performances Of these muscu!a,
gentlemen are not nearly as hard rs thcy
look. Take the "chain breaker" for
instance, who has not rival in his line.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04
Tanning Hides.

n leather manufacturer, who has been
on his travels, has sent tradc journal
some interesting notes on the methods of
tanniL1 adopted in various countries.
While walking out one day in Antigua
he came upon n hut about eleven feet
square, thatched with sugar cane, and on
entering he found himself in a very
unique ami primitive tanucry. A big
brawny coiored woman was hard at work
taking the hair off skins. Her method
was OF tie simplest. The skins had been
put IN lime for about week, aud were
being unhaircd by means of n board,
after which they were stepped in various
tan liquors in series Of tubs, and the
product WAS ready for market, the leather
was crude but serviceable- and sold
readily in the island.
John Chiraman was founu 10 have n
rude and primitive process. After steep
ing in solution of lime, the hides arc
cleanscd and beaten, then tanned with
extract of gall. The hides are afterward
passed backward and forward through
the smoke Of straw, which issues from n
circular furnace built underground, and
gives the latter II yellow brown color.
The process is then complete. Some
times the leather is BACKED with solu-
ton n! gals and copperas, or simply with
lamp-black. India has forty eight large
tanncrics.
Hides are tanned there By softening in
water for few daya, after which the
hair is scrapcd off. The hide is then
treated with quicklimc, and after remain
ing in this condition for two or four DAYS
is placed i'll the tan, which is made from
the bark OF the babul or any other tree
yielding good tanning solution. There
it rcmains for Il fortnight or three weeks,
after which it is removed, and when
soaked in clean water for Il short time
and dried is ready for use.
When intended for the manufacture OF
shoes the leather is usually stepped in
solution OF red dye for day or two be.
fore being worked. From the undyeG
leather buckets for wells and water bags
for the water carriers are made. Some
leather water skins of superior dcscrip-
ton, called chagals, are also made, which
are used by travellers to carry drinking
water. Besides the manufacture of diff
fercnt and characteristic forms of shoes
used in various provinces, European boot
making has also been learned in the
bazars OF the larger towns. In some of
these hides of animals are beautifully
tanned with the hair intact, and fine
soft skin of grcenish bull color Is made
into trousers, coats, legyins and gloves,
the skin used being that Of the deer
iittSJHrl Dispatch.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

anced his wife, weighing lis pounds,
ON his chin, Nine. Cyr standing on a
ladder while he accomplished this act.
Since that time Cyr has curled up with
one hand a bell weighing 265 pounds,
curling the bell fairly from The floor to
a full arms length above his head and
rot getting under the iron and pushin.
it up. That also is the record of one
hand curling Il bell
But the Alsatian Herculcs's most Won
deriul exhibition of strength was the
lifting of platform holding eighteen
men foot clear of the s.iids, the entire
lift registering $500 pounds.
His performance supplants DR.. Win
ships harness lifting by at least 500
pounds. Cyr is not large man, and
his arms and back do not give evidence
of his wonderful muscular development.
In fact the Alsatian looks rattle. fat when
stripped.
Kennedy raised a dumb bell weighing
1880 pounds, standing astridc of the
iron and lifting it clear oil the floor with
hoth hands. Kenncdy's dumb bell lift
has never been duplicated, and stands as
Il record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04
THE GARDEN OF YEARS.
I entered the beautiful Garden of Years

entered the beautiful Garden of Years
In u sprinStmc of long ago,
CROUCH heaven tho breezes, like chnriot-
GERS,
Drove in pageants OF cloud white as snow.
c'Ee sunlight fell soft us tho moonlight at
eve,
AMI the night was as fair as the day,
And thought there was nothing on earth
that could grieve,
Eut that all the sweet world must be CAV.
l was only child in the Garden of Years
And my hopes were in bloom with the rose.
And the music of life rang in chimes in my
ears
From the dawn of each day to tho close:
So played with tho butterflies carroIle,l
with birds,
And dreamed of the stars while l slept.
The language of life was mothers kind
words,
And into Cots bosom c:ept
Eut learned, rs grew in the Garden CT
Years,
lesson of nournful surprise
l learned with tho hopes of the world there
were fears,
And found there were sor-owfuI eyes.
found The heart weary i'll many n breast,
And saw that to many ii home
Where love hal invited some radian. guest
The Angel of Sorrow had come.
found, in the bcauifu, Garden of Years,
!, too, had Il eros must bear:
But whenever | locked for Gods smile
through my teais,
:H"nh my lift's rainbow was there.
And cne day chance tho Wise Gardener
To mect
WHO taught me what love should have
known.
That lie who from sorrow leads others worn
feet
Shni iini paths of peac. for his own.
ANA now Sfanicr still is the Car len of Years
Than IN tina; old sprinStime sublime,
W hose memories fall like n curfew tha.
cheers
From the far away towers OF Time;
For bicssci is h. "hp life's sorrow abatcs.
forsvinS rs he is forgiven,
For him shall life's angel, through death one
The safes
OF that Garden Eternal cal,cl Heaven.
-ErMcstlT. GuHicG, in Congregationa,isi
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

harbor in 1913. The Captain having
been wounded and tho First Lieute-
nant killed, the command of the frigate
and her prize devolved upon young
Wallis He was promoted for his gal
lantry and efficiency in this action. and
in 1919 was made Captain i he dates
of his promotion after this were rs fol-
lows: Rear Admiral, 1851; Vice Adj
miral, 1857; Admiral, 1869 and Adj
miral of the Fleet, 1877. It was only
by the special order of the Qneen thai
he was retained in the service after he
had attained the uge of seventy, at
which the rule requires retirement.
This was on account of the exceptional
length and character of his service,
He wa5 created CT. G. 3. in 1873.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

Sebastian Miller also hada try at that
lO3o pound dumb bell, but had to get
his knees under sticks held in his hands
to swing it clear of the floor, and so al
though his lift shows his immense mus.
cular power it does not compare with
kennedy's performance.
a few years ago the Paris papers were
inii OF accounts of the various perform
ances OF Sandow, young German ath-
lctc' Sandow met and easily defeated
ell the professional strong men in France
VINO competed with him in dumb bell
lifting and putting up heavy weights.
After Sandow had conquered all the men
IN the gay capital he journeyed to Eng
land, and continued to win his contests.
AT the present writing Sandow is still
going through England and Scotland
and occasionally putting the local .,trour
men to blush. He expects to visit the
United States next season, and hopes to
continue his triumphs. Although he ba,
beer so successful across the water. and
easily stands ut the head of strono mon
there, it is very doubtful whether he will
be able to beat Cyr or Kennedy or Miller
but there is no doubt that he will make
money mere, for MS reputation has pre.
cedcd ann, and he is said to be the most
perfect specimen OF muscular manhood
ever seen. Indeed his admirers saw that
ut is rs handsome as a Greek god" In
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

A strange spectacle was witnessed the
'ther day in Cincinnati. People passin.
along one of the streets were aslonishet
to see scores OF women hard at work il
front OF their residences with shove!s an6
brooms. They had got tired of waiting
for the city authorities to clean thcir
streets,an had sailed out to do it them.
selves. Every speck of dirt was re.
moved from curbstone to curbstone, and.
highly satisfied with their work, they re.
tired in triumph to their household af.
fairs.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04
After the gangs of Chinese thai,

After the gangs of Chinese that wer,
employed in building the Canadian Pa
chic Railroad had been discharged.
nearly all of them, asserts the New York
San, made their way surreptitiously te
this country. We now learn that tn,
Chinese laborers who have been engaged
in building the Tchuantcpec Tailroad in
Central America are making their way
through Mexico to the United States. Ii
IS thus that our Chinese population il
slightly increased from time to time.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

Russia's 5000, 600 new rifles will cosI
some $50, 600, 900, but the excellence oil
the investment is, maintains the New York
World, that it takes some time to max,
that many small arms, and pending their
manufacture Russia will not disturb the
peace. About the time they are really
for use Il still bcSter gun will be invented,
and this will cause Il further respite. II.
vcntion does considerable arbitration il
its own peculiar way.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

John Bratiano, the Roumanan states
man, whose death is announced, was for
many years IN interesting figure in Euro
pcan politics, and succeeded in raising
his country from the rank Of dependent
principally to that of an indcpend emit
kingdom. lie was not always consistent;
but as the Philadelphia Record observes,
4'that has been failing of great states.
men in moro important countries than
Roumanin.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

Baron IIirsch's fortune is variously cs
.timatcd from 500, 900, 900 to $50, 900,
600. Tie philanthropist's father was ,
Davarian banker. The foundation of his
fortune was railway contrac, with the
Turkish Government. 1t has since been
enlarged by other railway maneuvrcs in
eastern Europe and by speculations or
the Paris boursc. His son used to bt
Il wellknown figure ut Newmarket, ant
the Baron himself has OF late years gone
on the turf
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

a New York paper advocates the con.
soldation of the city with BROOKLYN and
several outlying towns on the ground
that cities with large territory are more
healthy than those whose space is cir
cumscribeI. 1t cites the fact that Lon.
don's death rate is only 175 in the 1000.
while the number of deaths per acre j.
eleven. The death rate of New York i;
given at 26. 6 in the 1000 and the numbc,
per acre as iifty-nine. Every one will
readily admit, says the SAN Francisco
Chronicle, that city with plcaty of el
bow room Is bound to have better health
conditions, everything else being equal
than densely crowded. one, but it will be
9iflicuit to make many people understand
how the purely political act of consoli
dating several cities within given ares
is going to scatter the people now living
within the boundaries of the proposed
rev city. Unless such dispersion car
be effected and the crowded sections O.
New York relieved by mean of rapit
transit or some other method consolida.
lion may reduce the number of death.
per acre, but we venture to say that care
fally prepared statistics will show tina;
within its old limits the mortality will
anain as large Per thousand as it i.
Low.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

The British Museum has just come iatc
possession Of an almost complete co.lcc-
ton of the horns OF the animals of India
land Central Asia, Dir. A. o. Hume
having presented to it his Accommodations
of many years. There nrc nearly three
hundred specimens, and one species only
the little four-horacd antcIope-is I'M
rerrescntel.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

1t is said there is tract of forest trees
in Southern Oregon embracing about
l6, 900 square miles, which, cut and sold
At $40 per 1000 feet, would pay our ma
that the amount of mcrchantablc timber
standing will reach 400, 900, 900, 900
Fppt
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

The San Francisco Chronicle believes
ma the Offering of prizes for efficiency
n the railway mail service might be cx-
ended with profit to all branches of the
postal service.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

4 census bulletin estimates the nation
nj debts of the world ut S25, G36, 07G,
COO. That is enough, estimates the
San Francisco Examiner, to buy out
any nation on the globe except the United
States, Great Britain or France. 1t is
IN amount Of inconccivablc vastncss, and
by the side of it the American debt ap.
pears insignificant
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04
Lapis I.azuli i'm Big Chunks.

Rich layers of Iapis lazuli have been
discovered in Semarcand, near the source
OF the River Zefvashan, by the village OF
Sabok. The sample presented to the
Governor of Sarmacand weighs abou,
one pood 0orty pounds), and is of rare
beauty and purity OF coior.-Phiiaels..
p.iia Record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04


At the head of the list, probably. is
LOUIS Cyr. the Alsatian. Cyr has lifted
more dead weight than any man living.
lie has put up weights in all kinds of
ways known, and is believed to have de-
monstratcd his superiority to his brother
strong men conclusivcly. Some are
these: Putting up dumb bell weigh
ing lO2 pounds, lifting it with one hand
with case and holding it out horizontal
from the shoulder at perfect right
angle to his body. A li.tlc later the
same Gay Cyr lifted foot from the
floor 1O2 pound bell, 232
pound bell aud Il man weigh
ing $50 pounds with one finger, the
aggregate weight of the lot being 4S4
pounds. This feat is the record OF one
finger lifting. Again that day Cyr bal
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

Australia has now 1850, 900 of people,
1900, 900 more than the population of
she American colonies when they de-
clared their independence, and the same
IS Ireland at the present time.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04
Queer Combination of "TYos. "

a queer combination of "twos" is pre-.
sented in the case of a prisoner sent tt
Ohio Pcnitentiary recently. He was
arrested February %, lay in Jail two
months, was convicted and sentenced to
two years for stealing two horses, being
received at the Penitentiary April 90,
and mis- serial number is %, 222, and he
had two fits OH the second night after
his NATURALIZATION HeraM.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04
MODERN SAlIS0NS.
MEN WHO ARE STRONGER THAN
GIANTS OF OLD.
Keats of Strength That Would AS
'on'sh the Heroes of An, Equity
where the Trickcry
Comes In.

There arc thirty strong men Mt least
now prominently before the public
Louis Cyr, Samson, Sandow, Cyclops.
Kennedy, Ajax, Hermann, Sebastian
Miller, Milo, Marks. Hercules, Dodnetti,
Andrew Hull, Wilson, Ayres, Mont.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04
a speech in favor of cremation was
made in the Mexican congress the othcr
day.

General Greedy, of polar fame, thinks
shat it is safer to make en- Arctic ex-
rendition than to undertake a trans
african journey like Mr.. Stanley's.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

The Chinese Government is strictly
opposed to obscene literature. A law
was recently promulgated to the fol-
lowing effect: GAIL Government officials
who allow immoral books tobe publish
ed within their respective jurisdictions
shall be discharged. Every private
person publishing such book shall
receive 100 blows and be banished from
his place of residence to
distance of 5000 lees. The seller of an
obscene book shall get 100 blows.
Within 20 days from the issue of this
law all the obscene books of the en-
pire shall be destroyed, beginning with
those now in print
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-04

Toothpicll Charlcy-"Well, Spider,
how goes it"2
Spider Fine; why when I first went
on the road l hadut n rag on my back.
Now look Il. me. I'm all rags. Man,
seY's WeekkY.