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Show A Cannon Exploded In Ills Month. It is on record that a German called BucIkJz lifted with his teeth a cannon weighing alxvut two hundred pounds and fired it off in that position. While performing at Epernay, in France, the mine feat the barrel of the gnu burst. Miraculously he was not Killed, although several of the fragments were thrown over fifty ya.'ds. At Berlin two strong men appeared, one of whom performed tho same trick ns Samson, and his rival, B.iiidow, of bursting iron chains by contracting, con-tracting, and so enlarging, the biceps of Ids arm. Chambers' Journal. |