The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-04-14

power cars, to which he attached himself
by means of hooks, which he held in his
hands, The cars were started simultan-
eously, but, by sheer fnger-strength. Letti
held them so that they could not move, al
though the engines were working at full
power.
This feat of holding two cars may per-
haps be taken as pretty well the limit of
human strength. That it is a fearfully
risky feat is proved by the horrible acct
dent which recently befell the famous
strong man known as Apollon.
At Vichy, before a large audience, he
essayed similar feat, his arms being har-
messed by chains to two cars which were
driven in opposite directions. He accom-
plished the performance safely, and then,
in answer to applause, tried it again.
To the horror of the spectators, he was
seen to lose his balance. Before the motors
could be stopped, all the musles of the
right side of his chest were torn out. He
died almost instantly.
Man is truly wonderful animal. AL
though the majority of the human race
ruin their strength and constitutions by
unwise eating and drinking, by lack of
fresh air, and by unnecessary exposure to
all sorts of infection, yet, even so, man
can more than hold his own with the
brute creation
Not, of course, in muscular strength. A
tiger with one pat of his paw can reduce
a human skull to pulp; a hare can run
two yards to a mans one. 1t is in en-
durance that man beats the lower races.
For short distance racehorse can gal
lop nearly thirty-fve miles an hour, but
in Northumberland race trained man
will easily beat any horse that ever lived.
A man, fifty years old, has walked from
London to Yarmouth in less than twenty
eight hours. This distance is one hundred
and twenty-four and half miles. 1t
would take very good horse to equal
such a feat. Another man, c. A. Harri-
man, tramped a distance of over one hun
dred and twenty-one miles without once
resting.
William Priestley, at Hull, England, in
1868, jumped one thousand hurdles, each
three feet six inches high, in sixty-one
and half minutes. That is equal to
lifting his own weight nine times the
height of St. Pauls in London, and run
ming six miles into the bargain.
There are many cases on record of pro-
fessional fasters doing without food for
forty days. Some few years ago French
soldier, Corporal Desrats, fell into an old
mine-shaft near Brest. He lay there, un-
able to get out, for twenty-eight days. and
that without morsel of food or drink.
Yet at the end of that time he was able to
call for assistance, and when he got out,
could tell his story. With proper care he
completely recovered.
Man can also stand greater extremes
of temperature than any other warm
blooded animal. The steamer Sandal,
carrying esparto grass from Almeria to
Aberdeen, caught fire in the English Chan
mel. She reached Portland Roads with
her whole cargo ablaze. The pilot had
just come aboard when the engineer
scrambled on deck.
II have been driven out of the engine
room," he gasped. 81 can't go back!"
and fell in faint at the captains feet.
The ship was driving straight on shore.
If her helm were turned to sea again, her
crew would have to face the spreading
flames; if not, she would smash upon the
beach.
II was the engineer who solved the
problem. Coming to, he volunteered to
stop the ship. The ladder was nearly red
hot. The temperature in the engine-room
was anything you please. Yet the engi-
neer passed through that flaming atmos-
nhera apd man aoed to cton tho po;pec