AN HUNGARIAN HERCULES.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 15 November 1880, Page 2

AN HUNGARIAN HERCULES.

<* In one of the criminal prisons in Hungary — the fortresa of Ofeu — is at present confined a prisoner, who is perhaps the strongest man tv the rorlfi. By j>U accounts, he must be the strongest rnnn living as om of the fea f s for which he was justly re* mwned before he gave up eaii.theuics iv order to take to the rood, was io support in the air, with his hands and teeth, a table, upon which two gypsies danced acz.irdas, while a third fiddled, He aud one of his brothers, only less powerful tlrn himself, were wont to bear ou the.r sh.-iuiuers a v.o ;den pi -.itform, shaped like a bridge, whi : e a cartful of stones, drawn by two horses was driven over it. The other day, when the gaol iv which he is confined was uudergo : ng a visit; from the municipal prison inspectors, headed by Obi-r-'Burgortneistei' \lalh,this Latterday .ercuic3 volunteered to give the authorities a specimen of 'his po'ver, and upon receiving t hair permio-siou todo so picked v'^ n heavy mahogany table, nine feet long, belonging to th>? Governor, with his teeth and balanced it aloft for nearly Haifa minute As Hesp'S'hiil h;is, unf.irtnnate, forsaken virtue a:;d fallen into evil ways.it is perhaps as well for the lives and limbs of bis feliosv-cou-fcrymen that so mighty a mi.demaanaub should be where he A