The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-03
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FIGURING ON AN ELEPHANT
How One Exerts - Force OF So 027
Pounds Figured Out by Col. Sells.

How One Exerts y Force OF SO .827
Pounds Figured Out by Col. sells.
Col. Lewis Sells, the arenic virtuoso,
who was in town yesterday perfecting
the final arrangements for the appear
ance of the famous Forepaugh-S Sells
Bros Circus Federation in Wichita next
Thursday, Is the inventor Of a fake"
statistics scheme that he considers just
about as smooth as plush-lined glass.
The colonel resorted to this plan as a
retaEa,tory measure against the people
who, either from honest enthusiasm of a
pitlable restitution OF gray matter, be-
siege and lombard the travelling show
man with a variety and abundance of
interrogstories that would drive the
wisest Philadelphia lawyer to strong
drink within a space of twenty-four
hours.
There Is nothing in the world that will
give a man the reputation for great
learning like fake statistics" says the
waggish Col Sells. Scarcely anybody
ever dares contradict them, and as rule
the bigger the figures used the more i'm
pressive they are. It IS simply astonish-
ing what you can make people believe II
you only tell 1t to them in figures. How
do do Ct? Well, for instance, we often
take Julius Caesar. our big elephant
and, by the way. he Is the largest ele-
phant now traveling-and set him push
ing our heavy wagons and sometimes
our cars around.
Powerful animal some onlooker will
say.
why. yes, he is pretty strong will
reply. I had an expert mathematician
figure out the power he exerts when he
pushes that car, and it is Just 53627
pounds. or equal to the pushing power
OF 4.7S3 able bodied men. These figures.
which are exact. led me TO some equally
interesting calculations. which are just
as accurate. for. you know. figures will
not lie. Do you know that the elephant
has 5.Sa75S3 separate and distinct mus
Giles. against the ZIP in a mans body?
Each one Of these muscles In the ele
plrant has just seven times the strength
of the mans and So If he were to exer-
else his entire strength Il would equal
the combined strength of 1859 OF the
strongest men
That statement. with the figures
never twice. alike. always upsets them,
and can see the man have been talk
ing tn whisper to his neighbors. and
pointing me out Then somebody will
ask me: How many persons can you seat
in you big tent. Mr. Sells?'
"'well, to he exact. we can crowd in
Just 1881 persons. To do that our tent
must contain 952S5s yards of canvas. As
there are 754 miles OF thread In one ward
Of canvas the thread in our tent. Il all
Strengthened ont into one string. would
reach all the way around the earth from
here just ninety-three times and still
have enough 10 reach from here to p
point six and one-third miles across
Odessa, in Southern Russia. This can
vas. II cut up into baby's froCks. would
make SS.5e5 little dresses; Il would make
% SIS mems suits. and Il would carpet
the floors Of 9a7 rooms the SIZE
Of the East room at the White House in
WASHINGTON
Then their eyes begin - bulge out.
When see have got them going do1't
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