The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-23
FREEB0RN G.. SMITH,
43 Montgomery Street, Jersey City.
.onea | was alive, and had flesh to


But now I am a 81 s5e nit / At HE mtr
John Bigg arrived at distsne e,,aiss
through the fact that he got the SUES us
one day and went off and became Sled
for for b,it one thing and that was leather.
He did not eat 1t, but every tinie q
piece was given him he na.led y bo TO ms
~ tdoeI HE eirdle. In one he kept strong
beerl in another mild beer, and In a tairo
milk. His shoes We're preserves and
1Iara cononosed of over q thousand pieces
The English of two centuries es1Iad b ag0 f the
t nsgEtgs saa gampsoa lhf Ills name name vas WI
lam Joy. There are some Of the Won
derful things he used to dol: "A SCI h,ss
horse. urged "a, by /, the re WhiP e9 e and kept n5f
from escape Solely by the check Ct Ms
pull. aided by a strong rope ana LIS
without any stay ! sto or Sdppo his iegs hort
bower he jumps clearly from MS sea.;
5. TO prove his agility and Il f Msne ay
the sole OF his foot, and in an erect pos
ture. without the least bending OF ms
head or body, raises the glass t, TO rls
his foot with both hands to accommo-
date his draught. A. Aided by a strong
leather g.rdle or belt, ana supporinls
himself by placing MS aims 9 ~
enormou weight of 2,240 pounds, 0: A
rope fastened to a wall WHICH had norne
the $500 pounds weight Witnout re gns VII
wav is broken by his amazing strengtn.
Cauideld also speaks of a strong woman
who fourished about the same time out
who was particularly remarkapie Ior aay y
months. and still sucking, lifted twenty
five pounds with ease. And SO the snow
goes on. one celebrity after another pc
- xyin yyarU 11ticn HS d
Snowman presents the animals at the
menageri Some have little about them
worth attracting attention, while others
make one wish that more hao peeh
chronicled concerning them.
4 DARING PHYSICIAN.
There was a daring physician VINO pc
came famous because ne nad the eoupaSe
or the hard.hood.. or both: to tel kiing
three legs for his 1ne KNEE three
Kingdoms. This was DR.. Radcliffe, and
be also told Queen A n u thai the she li wad as
if she'd only think it. A hundred years
before that remark would very likely
have cost him his head. he naa z w bis
own. Once a nobleman who was Dire
fully sick with quinsey sore throat sent
for Pr. Radclif faai 10 ,,k not soi na D o;t. ana
he swore he wouldn't. The servants went
back and reported. and were ordered to
g. and fetch the physical an by dd toree- maa
lIlE NE II o4d- AAS
hustled in to the sick room he ordered
that some h-asty-pudding be made. When
it was ready he commanded. the patient
to AXE some Of 1t. The sick man very
naturally refused, as the pudding was
fiery hot: whereupon the doctor com
manded one of the servants to eat It.
and while the latter was trying to do Sc
the doctor threw some OF it into his face
with a spoon. The servan retaliated in
the same manner. The spectacle of one
of the most eminent physicians in all
England engaged in a pudding throwing
contest with a servant was too much for
the patient, who forgot his ailments and
burst out laughing. The laughter caused
the swelling of the patients throat to
break, and immediately the doctor set
to work upon hin n cured him. DIR.
Radcliffe gave thousands of pounds away
IN charity during his life.
The names in which James Rick be-
came known to fame was certainly peru
s1iaf4eIAs an urchin he displayed aston
sishfng facility in initiating h notes OFF,
bug1e, and when he became. grown ne
travelled far and wide, exhibiting himself
as the human bugle. He could take the
place of a bugle in a brass band in a
manner SO perfectly correct says Caul-
field, that the finest ear could not feel
the deficiency of the real from the eoun-
sAerfe.t deception
STRANGEST OF ALL.
Perhaps the strangest of all the strange
volume of this queer work is tina of
coal man q earned his livelihood by
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