A CANADIAN MILO.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2234, 30 July 1891, Page 4

A CANADIAN MILO.

Louis Cyr, of Montreal, who is variously called the Canadian Samson, and Hercules, has, been performing some remarkable feats of strength in New York. He first put up a dumb-: bell weighing 1021 b, lifting the bell with one hand and. holding it out straight from the shoulder in a , horizontal position. He then lifted a 2321 b dumb-bell with one-hand to the shoulder, and .theii-slowly pushed it up and held it in that position, , He next lifted the 2321 b and the 1021 b dumb-bell with a man who weighed 1501 b with one finger. The aggregate weight lifted was 4801 b, which beat .Cyr’s own record . by 401 b. Cyr balanced Mme. Minnie Cyr, who weighs 1801 b, while she hung on . a ladder, on his chin, Cyr’s best exhibition was lifting a platform bound with iron, on which were 18-men and a 2321 b dumb-bell, with his back and hands. He was eager to lift 40001 b weight, but the platform was not large enough. The actual weight the giant lifted >yas 33371 b. He has, it is said, lifted 33391 - of pig iron in the same manner. He then shouldered a barrel of lime, which weighed 2511 b, with one hand, from the floor. He j finished his feats by lifting a man weighing 2001 b with one hand, and ' holding him dangling in the air above his head. Cyr is described as a monster in size. He weighs 2801 b

stands sft 10£ inches in his stockings, and measures 60 inches around the chest. His right arm above the elbows measures 21 inches. He is 27 years, old. He is declared to be the nearest approach to the man whom Delilah betrayed that has been seen within the lifetime of living-mam