Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1876 — Pedestrian Training. [ARTICLE]

Pedestrian Training.

Pedestrianism as an athletic exercise has become deservedly popular. There is no course of gymnastics so well calculated to develop a large fiumber of muscles, or to produce so beneficial an effect upon the system. There is a right way and a wrong way of walking—the one beneficial, the other negative ill its result. What the right way is, a writer in an English contemporary tells us in the following: The body must be held erect, with head well thrown back; the movement of the legs must he from the hip downward, and the body should be carried motionless. The arms should he swung well forward in harmony with the legs, and the elbow should, when in front, be nearly on a level and at almost right angles with the chin, the hands being open and extended. The leg should be brought well round from 'the hip, and the heel deposited on the ground in line with the rear foot, so as to leave your footmarks pretty nearly in a line. But above all things hold your head up and the body erect. Stitches and other kindred annoyances are common in learning to walk, but the beginner would do well to walk it off, and never ease if he is seized with distress. To do so is to throw away the pace he has acquired from the commencement of his walk, and to knock all the regularity out of his stride.— Scientific American. A married woman named Boyon has been condemned to death at the Lot Assizes, France, for murdering her seven children and grand-daugliter by pushing needles into their bodies. She had ten children, seven of whom died under twelve months old, but it was notuntilthe death of her grand-daughter that an investigation was made. Her apparent motive for this last crime was that the child might die before its father, who was in a desperate condition, and that she might thus secure part of his property, to the prejudice of her daughter-in-law, whom she detested. When asked how she came to think of sticking needles in her children’s bodies she said that at the public house she kept there was one day a conversation on infanticide, and it was said that babies did not suffer when murdered in that wav.

An almost incredulous case of recklessness was investigated at Barnley, in England, the other day. In one of the Dodworth & Bkilstone Company’s mines a certain portion of the workings was officially pronounced “dangerous,” and the colliers were warned not to go into it. Nevertheless, two of the men who had heard the warning went into the place carrying open lights, and one of them actually applied hip candle to a “ borehole” and ignited the gas which was issuing from it. No serious harm was done, but the act was properly stigmatized by the owners of the colliery as one of the grossest possible recklessness. The Magistrate thought that a penalty of forty shillings ana costs would be sufficient, and imposed it accordingly. A Sandusky man dfowned himself the other day because his wife would not lend him thirty cents. He did right. When a wife’s confidence gets shaken to that degree the husband might as well peg out. —Detroit Free Press.