En-durance Vile!

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 46, 15 June 1917, Page 2

En-durance Vile!

What Is the limit of human endurance ?

A bomb-thrower has hurled bombs continuously for forty-one hours. There are numerous striking and more peaceful record-breaking feats. A club-swinging champion once iswung his clubs for forty-six hours without a moment’s rest.

A young Brixton atheletn once swung a Blacksmith’s hammer for twelve hours on end. Then this same modern Samson belaboured a punch-ing-ball continuously for fifteen hours at the average rate of one hundred and forty-flvrc punches a minute.

Three times he broke the rope of the ball by his powerful fist-work. A few years ago two Frenchmen walked round and round a billiardtable, playing game after game, and covering sixty miles, for twenty-four consecutive hours. A band of change-ringers once rang the bells of St. Martin’s Birmingham for eight hours without pausing for a single second. A certain Polish lady danced, with only brief momentary r. s. for 34 hours ; while an Italian dancer “hopped it” for fourteen hours, at the rate of eighteen waltzes an hour. In his early days, Thomas Edison, the inventor, sometimes worked for five days and five nights with nothing more than a few moments’ dozing in a chair.