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Modern Samsons.

Sampson McCann, an Irishman, breaks silver dollars between his fingers and chains capable of sustaining 6000 pounds. Eugenie Sandow, a German, only weighs 202 pounds, but is credited with having put up a 312-pound dumbbell with one hand.

Paris was recently astounded by the feats of Apollon, a 25-year-old Frenchman, who weighs 250 pounds, and who can lift three horses, hold 100 pounds out at arm’s length, and play catch with a 160-pound weight.

Irving Montgomery, an American, breaks strong chains and sti'aps with his hands and by chest expansion with remarkable ease. His exhibition partner, Cyclops, is a giant who thinks nothing of running about with three big men and a 150-pound dumbbell, ox* of breaking a heavy iron ring by the contraction of his biceps.

Loxxis Cyi*, a French-Canadian, is six feet high, weighs 300 pounds, and has lifted 4000 pounds of pig-iron with his hands and back, and without using harness. Shouldering a 300-pound barrel of cement with one hand, luting 516 pounds with one finger, balancing his wife upon his chin, and raising with his back a platform holding a 23_pound dumbbell and twenty men (aggregate weight 3337 pounds) are among his everyday feats.

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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1037, 15 January 1892, Page 10

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Modern Samsons. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1037, 15 January 1892, Page 10

Modern Samsons. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1037, 15 January 1892, Page 10

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