The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10

per cent of this force Is available for other work than that of keeping the body warm. But how much the residue may be ex- ceeded by a strong man in good training is proved by the fact that Mckenzie. win ner of the race last year to the top of Ben Nevis, was working at the rate of Il. 900 foot-pounds per minute during the sixty-eight minutes that the race lasted.
 Speaking of mountain climbing, Sir Mar tin Conways Alpine record of the year 1894 is another startling proof of what man is physically capable of doing and enduring. Sir Martins tour lasted eighty six days. During that time he covered 1000 miles on foot, ascended twenty-one peaks of an average height of 1,500 feet and crossed thirty-nine lofty passes. 1t has been calculated that a man who climbs 1000 foot peak in five hours exerts enough energy to raise five fully loaded locomotives one foot from the ground.
 Long distance cycling gives a further proof of the enormous endurance of man. In the six days international cycle race of 1899 the winners-Miller and waller-covered 2,733 miles between the Monday morning and Saturday night. Brown, the vegetarian cyclist, recently rode on open roads, often in great heat and again under pouring rain, 1,So0 miles tn 199 hours.
 Although man is not well fitted by ra- ture to be a swimmer and is one of the few land creatures who canot swim with out being taught, yet in long distance swimming he can give points to any other land animal. Montague Holbein, in Sep tember, 1899, swam forty-six miles in twelve hours.
 Even in the matter of fasting there are few rm-blooded creatures who can emulate such a performance as the forty days fast of Tanner.
 Mans memory is one of his most won derful attributes. What Is possible in this direction was proved a year or two ago at Naples, when professor of rhetoric-Arlini by name-repeated from memory 15.350 lines of Dante. He be- gan to recite at 8 o'clock in the evening and went on till 2:15 the next afternoon.
 He was thus at work for 1,095 minutes, his rate being $50 lines an hour. He only stopped for a minute of two at long intervals to sip little brandy and water.
 Almost equally startling was the speech made by Count Lechter in the Austrian Parliament two years ago. Beginning at 9 o'clock in the evening he spoke until the next morning. During these twelve hours he never sat down, never repeated himself and never failed to hold the atten- ton of his audience. Amazing exhibi- tions of long sustained brain power have been given by chess players Pillsbury recently played sixteen games of chess | simultaneously, without seeing the boards | of any of his opponents and at the same | time played a game of whist and chatted | to his friends. What is more, he won | all these games but one.
 Men can eat more, lift more. carry more and bear more pain than almost any | other creature. Leysseus, the Belgian | glutton, who died last year, once ate sixty-nine hard-boiled eggs at a meal A man named Nightingale recently carried a sack of sand weighing one hundred weight four miles-from 1lford to Bow in fifty-nine minutes.
 A night watchman over 60 was recently run over by an engine at Queens road, Battersea. He had thirteen ribs broken and his right foot crushed, but he walked some distance along the line, descended sixteen steps of a ledder and walked an- l other twenty-five yards to his hut. He was still alive when found four hours later.