STRONG MEN.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7487, 8 October 1892, Page 4

STRONG MEN.

Thomas Thompson, -who lived and astonished tho world fifty years ago, lifted with ease three barrels of water, weighing together eighteen hundred and thirty-six pounds. He also put an iron bar on his neck, seized hold of its t\\ o ends, and bent it until the latter met. On another occasion he raised with his teeth a table six feefc long, supporting at its farther end a weight of one hundred pounds. He also tore without senous ett'oit a rope of a diameter of two inches, and lifted a horse over a bar, A negio of enoimous strength, -with one hand and arm out straight, lifted from the ground, a chau on which was seated a full grown man having on las lap a child. It is on iccoid tli.it a Gciman, called Buchol/, lifted with his teeth a cannon weighing about two hundred pounds and iired it i >tt' in that position. While perf mining at l']l> may' in France, the same feat, the birrell of the gun burst. Mnaeulously he was not killed, although several fiagments were thrown over fifty y.nds away. Theio are stoiies of other .stiong men who did not appeir in public. A Henna n count, in a pmate entcitainment, bent a non bar by beating it with his light hand against his left arm, protected by a leathern bandage, bending it afterward stiaight again by beating it the other way. Charles Louvier, a caipenter of Paris, found it child's work to roll a tin kism between his [fingers into cylinder. On one occasion he carried ofl' a guaid who had gone to sleep in the sentry-box depositing both on a low churchyaid wall i lose by. An equally amusing stoiy is t<>ld of a Dane, Knut Kunsdon, a lock - Minth, who, 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 hi-, 'oad.