DANCING MAD.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1160, 20 March 1874, Page 4

DANCING MAD.

The Vallogo, California, Chronicle of December 14, says Jimmy Kinnovan finished his thirty-one hours dance at two o'clock at night. Jimmy kept in locomotion throughout the whole time announced, only taking a brief recess, for the purpose of bathing his feet and having a brief respite. At this time he showed few symptoms of over-exertion: Hie feet was slightly swollen, but he otherwise seemed as fresh as when he commenced. His extremities were bathed by his trainer with brandy, which proved an excollent specific for the purpose for which it was used. Before the expiration of the ten minutes allotted Jimmy began to feel sleepy, and was glad to begin his exercise again as soon as possible. At frequent intervals he drank wine with raw eggs as an invigorant. His appetite was also keen during the trial, and he ate heartily. When the last twenty minutes before the lapse of the thirty-one hours had come, Jimmy who it seems husbanded his strength for the close, " let himself out." He seemed as fresh and vigorous then as when he first began, and notwithstanding his great age, sixty years, he danced the last three dances with an energy and heartiness which would have put to blush a youth of sixteen. Jimmy in fact, did not stop when three o'clock struck, but kept going for nearly ten minutes longer.