FAMOUS FASTS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 14, 26 July 1900, Page 1

FAMOUS FASTS.

Evans Witches' Oil, best remedy for pain in the back, rheumatism, nearalg a. ohillblains, bronchitis, colds ; price, 2s (jit, All chemists. Evans Witches' Oil cures old standing spiains, strains ; comfoiting and sootru.>£ application ; price 2s 6d. P. Hayman, agents. For children's hacking coughs e>h night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cuw, Is6d. Bronchitis and stubborn coughs yield quickly to the cur»tive effects of TuMiouia, " a wonderful tonic.

A man has recently completed & 35 days' fast simply for the sake oi his health. He sought neither gaia or notoriety, and during a continuance of his abstention from food quietly attended to his business. Dr. Tanner was the pioneer o? professional fasiers. He began big remarkable fast on July 28, 1880* at the Clarendon Hall, Kew "York. He abstaiued until August 7th> having reduced his weight to Bsfc 91b, and broke his fast on a peach and a glass of milk. The feat above mentioned was outdone by Succi, who, at tht* Royal Aqnarium, fasted for 45 day^. He subsequently repeated the foal at Kester and Bial's Musio Hal] io New York. At the end of the fusfc a large audience assembled to lc3 him eat his first meal. Although in his enfeebled state it must have been the most exquisite torture, he made efforts to get through a quantity of food, and so give the public a show for their money. Afterwards, Succi was challenged by a Frenchman called Jacques, an old soldier, to show his endurance by fasting against him. According to Jacques' terms the one who held out the longest was to take the gals money. The challenge was curiously bombastic. "I, child of France,'' wrote Jacques, "defy the blatant Italian. Accept my challenge and starve with me, or be known for ever as a braggarc sailing under false colours'." Succi did not take up the gage, and his challenger subsequently fasted at the Aquarium for 60 days. But a still more wonderful foal of abstinence was performed by a French murderer named Oranie, who thought to starve himself fco death and thus to escape the guillotine. For 63 days he went without food in spite of the efforts of the warders, who cooked dishes of delicious food and placed thatn steaming in his cell. Such was fehe will of the man, however, that ho shut his eyes, clenched his teeth, I and with an effort conquered h t s _QESyißgr~iiE attsmpt -to teel hb:> by force was abandoned owing lo his -violence. At the end of 63 days he died. He had only taken a fewpints of water the whole of the 1 time. A woman in Permslyvania, ft hopeless invalid, owing to cancer of the pharynx, was unable to swallow, and her religious scruplt^ forbade her to feed by artificial means. It is said that she died after having eaten nothing-ifor six months or more. Daily her cottayj was thronged with the curious, aiid doctors came from far and wide to investigate her case.