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Show 1 1 This Man Lifted n Tor. I V Richard Joy. who died May IS. 17-1 'J. I " at the age of sixty-seven and Is buried 3 1 In St. Peter's churchyard. Isle of I 1 Thanet, Kent. ICnglNiid. was known 1 I throughout Kuropo as the -Kentish B Ilercules," or the "second Samson " S it When but a vouth of seventeen vonrs Br ' lie wns inrttcti to' Loliuon by'tne Hing to give an exhibition In remarkable feats of strength. Among the feats of his more mature years wero those of breaking with his hands nnd feet a rope with a tensile strength of thirty-five thirty-five hundredweight and tho lifting of 2.200 ponuds. The following Is n copy of his epitaph: Horculcnn hero, famed for strength. At Inst Ilea here, his breadth and length See how the mlshty man la fallen) To death the stronR nnd weak are ell one. The same Judgment doth befall Oollnth great and David small. |