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Show Too Heavy Weight A eorresKindeiit writes to the London Lon-don Country l ife: "Many years alio one man but another that he could not move an ordinary hrlrk tied tn tlio end of a cord two or threo miles lonK. I forset which. A stralKht and level rend Just outside Clililioster waa selected for the trlnl; tho brick waa not moved and thn mini lost tils bet for a laruo amount. It was stated by Homo one present that the brick, al-thoiiKh al-thoiiKh welnhlim only about seven pounds, would, from a distance of two or three miles, represent a dead wululit of nearly ton." |