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Show BEAT THE DUMB-BELL RECORD. American Puts It Up 16,000 Times In Less Than Three Hours. An American, Anthony McKInloy, has mado a romarkablo showing with dnmb-bolls in Belfast, Ireland. Ho gavo tho exhibition In tho billiard-room billiard-room of tho Boyd Arms Hotel with'a twolvo-pound " ono and one-fourth ounce dumb-bell, shoulderfto arm's length abovo shoulder, ono handnnd succeeded In putting it up 10,000 times in two Hours fifty-seven min-utos min-utos nnd fifty seconds, at tho rato of ninety times per mlnuto, regular I throughout, with ono or two over ev-,( ev-,( cry timo tho counter called qfitT and often morp. The dumb-bjihjjwas weighed at starting and flnlllilng.'ln i tho prosonco of all, and tho total; 'wolght amounts to 172.G47 pounds. Tho nreylous hfc.it wlttt'thls wolght, n twolvo-pound dumb-boll, was by A. j, Corcoran of Chicago, which was also tho greatest total weight ovor put up, when, on October 4, 1873, ho put it up 14,000 times, timo not stated, or a total to-tal of 160,000 pounds. ' |