Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — A Man of Nerve. [ARTICLE]

A Man of Nerve.

W. B. Harbdr of California, with a camera, has photographed a man tiimnfi 'Jacob Myers, as he stood upon one loot. on the top of a limbless tree 196 leak high and fourteen inches in diameter at the top. Mr. Myers, it is claimed, performed the wonderful feat of dancing a jig on the top of the tree. M Mew people,” says Mr. Myers, “ like to go up aa nigh, but I have never yet seen a place too high for me. It is no trick at all for me in these great red woods to climb a tree, cnt off the top and stand on it. 1 have stead an the extreme end of aa electric tower in Tipton, lowa. The tower wan 159 feet high and I stood on a one-inch rod with one foot. 4>f this yoa can get proof from Tipton. I was a stranger there, but you can find that ‘f did so by askmg the people of Tipton. ” —[New York Dispatch.