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And would you like another instance? At fifty-five, Mr. Samuel E. Griscom, a well-known active businessman, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, troubled with nervousness and insomnia, taking in each hand an eight-pound dumbbell, for two minutes swung them about a foot behind him; then up in front, till his hands went as high as his shoulders. Then he rested three minutes and worked two minutes more, with eight-pound bells at first; after about three years he used twelve-pound bells, and then for about ten years twenty-pound ones,