The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-05-16
Wonderful Strength.

To- wal celeDF3CeG Europe
~ the strongest man of the sixteenth
century.
He daily performed with a hard.
wood beam twenty feet long aud a
foot square.
! This beam was a heavy load for two
men OF ordinary strength, yet this
man would walk about his exhibition
grourri~, with it on his shoulder, Jug
gler fashion, and shift it from one
shoulder tn the other without the aid
of his hands.
Nicholas Klunher, another sixteenth
century athlete, living at Misnia,
Thuril,s, brought from a cellar a cask
of wine containing TIVE hundred and
fifty gallons.
George lie Feur, q German writer,
mentluIIs this feat in his writing, and
says that the aifidavits of persons who
witnessed the removed Of the cask
were then extant,
81 have seen II man,"says Mavolus,
the Italian bishop, lin the town of
Aste, who handled q pillar of marble
three feet long and one foot square.
He cast it high in the air, then re-
COASCA D. tPOH ITO lIIHs GuCu JttIcW IL
ap again as easily IA if it had been a
cotton ball"
Cardan writes that he once saw a
mail uancing with two fully grown
men in his arms, and with one seated
upon each shoulder, aud a fifth cling
ing to his neck.
Hermann Maurice, Count of Sake
of whom Friedrich the Great wrote, Il
have Z the hero of France. a man
Of whom all the generals of Europe
could learn the art of war"-was q
IMAM renowned for strength.
While waiting at the village smithy
for his war horse to be shod, his favo-
pastlme was that of pulling horse
shoes in two, and twisting off large
bars of iron.
Leebelski, the author, who was at
Constantinople during the celebration
in honor of the birth of Mahomet, son
of Amurath, the Turkish Emperor, in
1881, saw u man who lifted with ease
. beam of hewed wood three feet III
diameter, and SO long and heavy that
ten men were unable tt remove it
hom its resting place.
The same man permitted a stone OF
twelve hundred-weight to be placed
upon his chest, while eight men, who
placed 1t there with levers and ropes. |
seated themselves ON the top of it.
Thomas Topliam was the wonderful
mai Of the past century.
He was born in London in ITO, On
his thirty-first birthday he gave an e1- |
hibition OF his strength by lifting three |
hogsheads OF water, weighing eighteen
hundred pound. in the presence OF
many people.
With his fingers he rolled up strong
pewter dish with as much ease as an |
ordinary MAI would a sheet of paper.
He struck an iron poker three-quart-
ers OF an inch thick across his bare
arm, between the elbow and wrist.
until the instrument was bent so as to
nearly form a right angle.
Taking another poker of the same
kind across the back of his neck, he
bent it IN the form of a horseshoe, and
then made it straight with his bare
hands.
DE broke a hempen rope two inches
IN thickness, the same with which two
horses had pulled an immense stone
roller weighing eight hundred pounds
and afterward lifted the roller itself
with nothing but his hands and a
fastened in a large column.
John Bray, a Cornishman, who liv-
about the same time. for Il small
wager carried six bushels Of wheat and
The miller, seated on top OF the sacks,
a distance OF five hundred yards.
w. b. Curtis Of New York, lifted. in
harness. thirty-two hundred pounds.
ii. Lonssing lifted thirteen hundred
pounds with his hands alone, and D..
Dowd of Springfield beat the
mans lift by fifty weight and
'ne-half pounds.
oterns Carpenter, an old man living
at Granite Corners, New York, in 1882.
to have shouldered a package
weighing fourteen hundred pounds
anu to have once carried a box of
scrap iron that weighed nineteen
hundred pounds.
AT the age of eighty years he could
grasp a twenty-foot railroad rail in
zach hand and walk of with them.
At Berthierville, Canada, 1888,
Louis Cyr crept under some trestless
upon which three thousand FIVE hun
dred and thirty. six pounds of pig iron
rested upon heavy timbers, and raised
III enormous weight two inches from
ito resting place OF the trestles.
At Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1884. C.
.. Breed lifted q barrel of -four two
undre and forty times in n min
ute.
The total weight lifted in those six