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Show Strength of .Men aud Women, Exchange. A French scientist who experimented with fifty persons of both sexes, uing a machine for compression as a test of slrenifih, found thai, the strongest man was able to produce with his right hand a pressure equivalent In eight live kilo-granKa kilo-granKa kilogran is rather mure than tv o pound-), and (lie weakest to forty kilogram-., the average being tifiy-six kilograms. kilo-grams. One curious result w as arrived at, the shon i. leu were all very nearly as strong as the tall man. the average diii'ererieo between equal groups of t w o sizes being only three kilograms. The force of the strongest women of the lil'ty who were- selected amounted to only torty four kilograms, and that of tho weakest to sixteen kilogram, w hile, the average was t hirty-lhi'ce kilograms I . . . . |