STRONG MEN’S JOKES

Evening Star, Issue 18160, 28 December 1922, Page 6

STRONG MEN’S JOKES

diaries Louvier, a carpenter of Paris, found it child’s play to roll a tin ha-sin between his lingers into a. cylinder. On one occasion ho carried off a soldier on guard) who bad gone to sleep in the sentrybox, and deposited both box and soldier on a low churchyard wall close by. Another man who sometimes found bis great strength a source of amusement was a Danish locksmith, Knut Knuclson. He, while standing in .a window on the ground floor, lifted with one hand half a, bullock from the shoulder of a butcher who was toiling past with his load. Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, once entered a blal'israith’s shop to have his horse shod. To show his suite how' strong he was he picked up several horseshoes and broke one after the other, asking the blacksmith as he did so if he had no better. When it came to paying the bill the Elector Augustus threw a silver piece on the anvil. It was a very thick coin. The blacksmith took it up and broke it in half, saying: “Pardon me, tut I have given you a good horseshoe and 1 expect a good coin an return.” Another piece was given him. He broke that and five or six others. Then the humiliated Elector handed him a lords d’or, saying: “The dollfars aio probably made of had metal, hut this gold piece, I hope, is good.’.’ An Italian, Luigi Bertini, of Milan, performed a similar feat. Besides horseshoes, ho broke nails a finger thick. The Duke of Gramont, the Minister of Napoleon 111., frequently astonished, the ladies at Court- by benc|ng a 20-franc piece in his hand.