Famous Men Of Muscle

Among the (reeks the súuceasfiri athlete was cvowned with lam-els umi loaded down with wealth and honor Mtlö six time won tlio palm at boih the Olympic and Pythian gamea. Jle is said to have run h uiile with a fouryear old ox upon his shoulders, and afterward killed the anfma] with ona blow of hi list, and ate the entire carcasa in one day. Sp great was his. muscular Hjwcr that he would biíkl a cord around his head nd break it by the welling pressure of the veins. An ordinair ineal lor Milo was twenty poumls of méat, as much bread, and tifte-n pinte of wina Polyderaus of Thessalia was of eelossal height and piodigious stn-ngtli, and, it is said, alone and without weapons, killed an enonnous enragel Hou. One day, it is recortled, he seized a buil by its bind fet, and the animal escaped only by leaving the hoof in the graap of the athlete. The Roman Emperóx Maxiniinus was upward of eight feet in height, and, like Milo of Crotona, conld squeeze to powder the. hardest utone with hiu !'mg(is and break the leg of a horse by a kick. While a prisoner In Gennanv, Hicttard I., accepted an invitation to ;t lxxing match with the son of bis jailtr. Ile received the first blow, which made him stagger: luit reeovering with a blow of lus list he killed his antagonist on the spot. Tophani, an Knglishman, born iü 1710, was possessed of a.stouishing strength. His annpits, hollow in the case of ordinavy men, were with hiin full of inusclcsand tendons. He woilld take a bar of iron. with its two ends held in his hands, place the niiddle of the bar behind his ne'k, and bend the extremitiee by niain force. until they met together, and bend back the Iron straight again. The fanious Scandfrleg, King of Albania, who was born in 1414, was a man of great stature, and his feats of swonl exerciae havenever beeh jnáled. On one occasion, with his chneter, hc struck his antagonist Buch a blow thnt its forcé cléáved liiio in thé waist. Maurioe, (Dunt of Saxony, was especlally notHl for the Surprisltlg mtisculav pnwiT of his bands. On one oeca.iion, netling a cürkscrcw, lie twistl ;i large iron nail round into the réquired ahape with his fingere, and ojneil half a dozen bottles of wine with it. Another time he picked up a number ot' horHetihoes, and witli li is haaUfl snapped tlem in two as readily a-s if iu;le oi' It' historv is to be believetl, Phatylllit. df Crotona could jump a dlstancí oí tifty-six f eet. stnitt.an English authority onganu and amuseuents,fepeaks oí' a Voikshire jumper named freland whos6 pbwers were marvellouB. lic waa si tWt high, and at the ar of IS le;q(I, witliout the aid of a spring board, over nitic horses raiiged side by side. The Baltimore School Board has recinded it previous resolution t place colored teachers in thé colored schools and bas elccted four white teachers to lili vacancies in those schools, in apite of the fact that twenty-one colored candidatos passed the teachers' examinations. There is much lndignation in Haltiinr over the action of the Bmrd. The Silicrian university is rapidlv he coming established, Tho Kussian gouernnicnt before the foundation stom? was lald had expended 1365,000. A librarj' of 85,000 vohmics bas already been collected. A houseliolder in Toronto refustnl to illow the boiiv of a w.nnan who had died on his premiaos t be removed foi iurial unless he was paid $50 for renl nul sttendance. HPe also presentad another bill for f25, alleging that visito, iad worn out lus caqet. A learned physician flnds that tho1 figure on the crucifix in Hurgos Catliedral ia a human body In n perfect stat of preservation. It ia suid to liuvt en thr )in tüt levuuth uatutj.