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Show MAN'8 HAIR VOUCHE8 GROUND. Modern Samson Is a Marvel of the Northwest.; Mnplo Falls, Wash. This town boasts a modern dny Samson, in nn eccentric old mnn, who, like tho hero of old, has novor 'permitted his hair to bo trlmmod. Ha wears long lockB, which hung nearly to the ground. Ho Is a powerfully built man and stands six feat flvo Inches. This man Is John Fltzpatrlck, 75 years of age, nnd though bo old ho can lift a barrol of salt, weighing 270 pounds, nt arm's length over his head. Ono of his recont feats of strength was at tho Ynklnia county fair, when, In tho prcsonco of mnny persona, ho plckod up a grnnlle bowlder, which, whon previously weighed, tlppod tho scales at 450 pounds. Ho raised thb hugo oblong stone In his arms, carried car-ried it 40 foet, and loadod It Into a wagon box, with no assistance |