“ I gained in strength enough to lift 700 pounds more in these two years. Liquor is a bad habit, anyway. Tobacco, too much of it, is bad. I am three times better off since I gave them both up.
"I eat five or six pounds of meat a day; eat as much as three woodchoppers. It would make you hungry, perhaps, to see me at dinner. They charge me double board; never mind, I pay it. I am always gaining in strength—I guess I was born that way—and I guess I will lift 4,500 before I get through. The record for lifting? Well, you know, I lift everything without a harness ”

“ Louis Cyr, who has beaten the world at heavy-weight lifting, is to receive a magnificent championship belt at the Queen's Hall to-night, presented by appreciative citizens. Cyr is a French Canadian. He was born in St. ”