With weights, J.H.Fitzpatrick at Oak Island, Mass., jumped six feet six inches high.

The record for the running high kick is nine feet eight inches, a marvelous performance, made by C.C.
Lee at New Haven, Conn., March 19, 1887.
Extraordinary physical development and strength has been a grand means of natural selection in the human species.

As Guyot-Daubes remarks, in prehistoric times, when our ancestors had to battle against hunger, savage beasts, and their neighbors, and when the struggle for existence was so extremely hard, the strong man alone resisted and the weak succumbed.

This natural selection has been perpetuated almost to our day; during the long succession of centuries, the chief or the master was selected on account of his being the strongest, or the most valiant in the combat.

Originally, the cavaliers, the members of the nobility, were those who were noted for their courage and strength, and to them were given the lands of the vanquished.