The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20

many other wonders of bodily strength
had to give way to woman, so did Top
ham apparently.
At about the same time as Topham
there lived another wonderfully strong
man, Richard JOY whose feats may possi-
bly, have got mixed in records with those
of Topham Richard JOY was already re-
| nowned for his marvellous strength before
Topham was born. He was commonly
known as the "Kentish Samson" and
"The Strong Man of Kent" Among
other things, he could cope successfully
against any powerful horse, lift a ton
weight, and snap a rope that bore thirty
hundred weight without breaking, the
latter being far more extraordinary than
Topham's similar feat. He was drowned
in a smuggling expedition some ten years
before Topham's death, and is buried in
the church yard of st. Peters church
near Broadstairs. His tomb bears the
following inscription:
"Herculean hero. famed for strength,
At last lies here his breadth and length;
See how the mighty man IS fallen
To death the strong and weak are all one
And the same judgment doth befall
Goliath great as David small"
A Scotchman, said to be the last of the
Stuarts, was also possessed with extraor-
binary strength, from which circumstance
he got the Dynamo of Jenny Strength.
Among other feats he could carry a
twenty-four FOUNDER cannon, and had
been known to lift a CARLOAD of hay
weighing ton and a half, upon his back.
Many time he took up a iackass, and ,
carrying it on his shoulders, walked
through the tollgate.
A Belgian giant could stand up under
two tons.
Jonathan Fowler, a Massachusetts fish
erman, once walked out knee-deep through
the mud and filth Of a seashore at low
tide to a shark left by the retiring wa
tiers, shouldered IT,, and brought it alive
on his back to the shore. The shark
weighed 800 pounds quite load consid-
ering that it was not the most portable Of
articles, and that the man had to wade
through mud
DR.. Winship, the well-known American
athlete, raised from the ground 400
pounds.
A seaman on board the celebrated
cruiser, the Alabama, a Scotchman named
Gill, could lift man at arms length with
one hand.
Abraham Lincoln was a man of great
strength. He could with one blow bury
an AK in the trunk Off tree deeper than
any other man, and he is said to have
thrown across the roadway a pigeon
house weighing 600 pounds.
Polydamas of Thessalia was a man of
extraordinary strength and stature. As
Hercules had done, he alone, without
arms, killed an enormous lion that was
devastating the valleys of Mount Olym-
pus. With one hand Polydamus could
hold back a chariot drawn by two horses.
He could break the trunk Of a tree as any
one would break a small stick. The King
of Persia, Darius J., wishing to witness
the feats of this marvellous man, called
him to his court; he opposed to him three
Of the stateliest men of his army. Poly
damas killed the three by simply giving
then a slap on the ears he was about to
slap the faces of a few more when the
king, satisfied, stopped hun. One day
he seized bull by one of its hind feet,
and the animal did not escape until it had
left its hoof in Polydamas' hand. Like
Milo, he died through over-conhdence in
his strength. He attempted TO support
a mass of rock that had given way, but
he got buried under it and died.
Also in the sixteenth century there
lived another remarkably strong man. a
major, named Barsabas. One day he
took up an anvil weighing 500 pounds and
hM it under his cloaks. Often, to amuse
his comrades, he went through the rife
drill with cannon. He could crush be-
tween his fingers the limbs OF big ami
mails. One day, seeing a crowd looking
at an enormous dancing bear, he offered
to wrestle with the animal. The major
threw the bear down several times, and,