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

where the mobiles were, and playfully
| threw wood aud ass on the fire.
Louis de Boufflers, who lived in the six
| tenth century, could break q bar of iron
with his hands. The strongest man could
not take from him bail which he held
| between his thumb and first finger
| While standing up, with no support what
| ever, four strong soldiers could not move
| him. he remained as firm as a rock
Sometimes he amused himself by taking
on his shoulders his own horse fully
harnessed, and with that heavy load he
| promenaded the public square to the
| great delight of the inhabitants.
At about the same time there lived a
Spaniard named Pedro, who could break
| the strongest handouts that could be put
| around his wrists. He folded his arms
on his chest and ten men pulling in differ
| ent directions with ropes could not unfold
them.
Augustus H., Elector of Saxony, was a
man of great strength: he could carry a
man in his open hand. One night he
quietly threw ont of a window q monk
who paraded his palace pretending to be
a ghost.
Augustus son, the famous Maurice,
Marechal de SAKE, who commanded the
French at Fontenoy, was also a marvel of
strength. On one occasion he twisted
corkscrew, with which he drew the corks
of half dozen bottles. He could break
with his hands the strongest horseshoe
One day when in London he had a row
with dustman. when he seized the man
by the head and, throwing him up in the
air, let him drop right in the middle of
his own dust cart. The only opponent
who succeeded in resisting him was wo-
man, Mile. Gauthier, an actress. Maui
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down the others wrist, and after a long
struggle he won, but with the greatest
difficulty. The power of Mile. Gauthier's
arm was far beyond the common, and
with her fingers she could roll up silver
plate as easily as any one would paper
Thomas Topham, born in London in
ITO, was man possessed of extraordi-
nary strength. He once lifted three casks
filled with water and weighing in all
1886 pounds. He is said have had the
combinded strength of twelve men. He
could bend a stout bar of iron by holding
the twOa ends with his hands, placing
the middle of the bar behind his neck,
and bringing the two ends forward. He
could also undo what he had done, that
is, strengthening the bar again, much
more difficult feat. Once, having some
words with a neighbor, he took an iron
spit and twisted it round the mans neck
with as much ease as if it had been a
handkerchief. He could roll up pewter
dish weighing seven pounds with his
hands as if it had been piece Of paper.
He could also squeeze together pewter
quart pot while holding it at arms
length. He could crack cocoanuts as
easily as any one would crack hazel nuts;
break broomstick of the largest size by
striking il against his bare arm; lift two
hogsheads of water, lift his horse over a
turnpike gate; carry the beam Of a house
as the soldier would carry his rife; lift
200 weight with his little finger over his
head.
He broke a rope fastened to the ground
that would sustain twenty hundred
weight, and lifted an oak table six feet
long with his teeth, though half a hun
dred weight was hung at the extremity.
With one hand he raised a man who
weighed twenty-seven stone. Once, see
ing Waterman asleep in his box, he car
ried away both man and box a long dis
lance. 1t is said Of him that having been
placed on some duty at the entrance gate
Of a race-course, he refused to allow a
four-hOrse coach to go through on the
driver whipping his horses and attempt
ing to pass, Topham took hold of the hind
wheels of the coach and upset it and its
occupants into the roadway. Topham,
who kept public house in Ellington, had
a wife who quarreled with him to such an
extent that she drove him to commit
suicide. Hercules, Samson, Milo, and