THE GEORGIA MAGNET.
Miss Annie May Abbott ("The Georgia Magnet") arrived by the s.s. Papanui this morning, her intention being to make a tonr through New Zealand. Miss Abbott is the original Georgia Magnet, and is now on her first visit to the colon?. Some particulars about this remarkable lady have already appeared in the "Star," nnd her first public appearance in this city will be awaited with considerable interest. Weighing only six stone ten, she defies the strongest man on earth to lift her. When only nine years of age she terriiied her father, a man of fourteen stone, by lifting him and the chair he was sitting in and depositing' him downstairs. Using her 6pe«i hands, she can lift ten men, first singly, then all together; but ten men cannot lift her. . The late W. E. Gladstone described her as "tup most wonderful and interesting phenomenon of Nature since the' Christian era," whilst a well-known scientist, dubbed her "a veritable human dynamo." Several gentlemen " were permitted to experiment with the "Afagnet" this morning on board the Papanui. and received practical proof of her remarkable powers.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 197, 21 August 1899, Page 4
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187THE GEORGIA MAGNET. Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 197, 21 August 1899, Page 4
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