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Evening Star, Issue 3584, 18 August 1874, Page 2

The boys’ now trousers, copper-fastened throughout, and plated at the kpe§ so as to be impregnable to friction, arc known as the f ‘knee plus ultra.” (( -A- well-knovm street performer, nicknamed ‘ Iron Jaw,” has just died in harness. He used to give open air performances in the streets, lifting enormous weights with his teeth and flinging them over his head. The other day he was exhibiting his powers to an admires crowd m one of the outskirts, and coppers fell fast and thick into the ring. Delighted at the generous disposition of his audience, he deflS t0 iT cl « de a more than ordinary display of his herculean strength. Ho placed we ’?hts in a cask, seized it tn ms teeth, and with an enormous effort succeeded in raising it from the ground. He balanced it for a moment, and then with a jerk ■attempted to fling the cask and stone over his but ho had tried tob much, and in hia mdre ' * or broken