Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-09-09
From the Boston TtapeHer.
WALKING A THOUSAND MILES IN A THOU
Sam HANDS o.

a feat that now being performed at Stewards
Gymnasium, over the Boylston market, are apt to
misapprehend and misconceive its difficulties A
thousand miles, travelled at the rate of twenty-four
miles day, would break down nine men out of ev-
cry ten, and leave the best drilled army minus half
its forces; but TO walk a thousand miles in a thou
sand consecutive hours is a feat UNNECESSARILY more
difficult No single hour, it must be remembered,
must be allowed to pass without mile having been
accomplished during the time in which the minute
hand makes its circuit. Each hour of dawn or sun
set, of midnight monday, whether the rain pour
without the thermometer stand at 96 in the shade
must have its mile measured with weary feet-hour
after hour-hour after hOur-night and day for six
successive weeks. Nothing earth is so refresh
ing as night of calm quiet, and Connected sleep:
but in performing the feat under consideration such
rest for the tired body cannot be obtained and the
hurried maps which taken, instead of really in
vigOratug, serve only to inspire intense longing
for that continued rest which alone refresh the
weary, either in mind or body.
Let any one, in ordinary circumstances be forced
to lie awake every alternate hour for even few
nights in succession and he will find serious inroads
made by it upon his health and spirits. That such
undertakings that at BOylston Hall can be success
fully carried out only shows what an excess of
durance the human frame may be made to Withstand
by reful and faithful training
The young man, Lambert, who is now walking his
thousand miles at Stewards Gymnasium, is q native
of York, in England, and about twenty-ope years of
fourteen he thrown considerably into the society
of sporting characters connected with celebrated
English stable, and as a consequence had his mind
so much impressed with the exploits of certain pc
destrians that he put himself in training His first
footrace was over the York course the same year
when he accomplished his two miles within eleven
minutes. At Belleview, near Manchester, he won
purse Of e25, against one Jordan, running quar-
ter of a mile in ifty-three seconds. Since then he
has run half dozen races, the last of which at
Lawrence last Fast Day, when he beat Naley, the
Shooting Star" in a FIVE mile race. He has once
before been eng ged in walking feat similar the
present, namely, at a cricket ground near York, in
Yorkshire, England, where, having assisted Pc
destrian who walked FIVE hundred miles in as many
consecutive hours, he laid wager that he could do
the same thing, and won the wager.
The match at Boylslon Hall is for 81 ,000 a side,
and both the parties to ii have their agents present
to watch the of events and see that all things
done fairly and in order The ring in which he
walks is about yard wide, laid with sawdust, and
runs around the hall, all the gymnastc paraphena-
liza of Professor Stewart being Within and the sub
scribers to the gymnasium are constantly on hand,
exercising themselves without in the least nterfer-
ing with the pedestrian Twenty seven times around
this ring makes the required mile.
At twenty minutes before o'clock last evening
our reporter saw Lambert commence his six hundred
and ninety second mile. He was in good spirits
and had been cOnversing freely and with apparent
ease, and went off in good style on his walk. He
dressed in red silk shirt, with short sleeves
black velvet breeches, reaching TO the knees check
socks, and shoes; with hight kerchief round his
neck-leaving his calves, arms throat and head
bare In height he is about five feet seven or eight
inches; he has light blue eye and very pleasant
genial aspect of face His natural weight is l35
pounds, but by training he reduced himself 10 III
pounds, and has fallen off some six seven pounds
since commencing his walk. The six hundred and
ninety-seeond mile was accomplished in just fifteen
minutes.
During the first two weeks of his pilgrimage he
felt worse than at present. He frequently has pain
in his legs and WEAKNESS, well headaches, and
after each mile his knees give him some pain. By
frequent bathing with alcohol, and rigid attention
to Diet however, he is enabled 10 keep up, and ap
pears to be quite strong; appearances are in favor
OF his successfully accomplishing his task although,
of course, the last one or two hundred hours will
test his exhausted energies to the utmost, possibly
beyond the limit of endurance. The present cool
weather is very favorable to him, and he says he
felt most severely the two hot days which &C.
CURED week before last.
At one time recently his knees were much swollen
and painful, but the inflammation was reduced, and
the utmost attention is paid to diet guard against
attacks of Illness His food consists entirely
ton and beef, done rare; dry toast, and few pota
Toes, and nothing greasy fat is allowed him his
drink Is tea and Scotch ale In the state of his phys
cal system, consequent upon his exerions all this
care is necessary to prevent liability to sickness.
His greatest trials at night, when he sleeps
He takes sleep in the day, and the walking after
eleven o'clock at night is so arranged that he can
walk two miles in succession, taking the last fifteen
minutes of one hour and first fifteen of the next
thus giving over an hour and quarter at each in
terval of rest during which he obtains his sleep.
The moment he lays his head upon the pillow he
drops into slumber profound death, and it is
with the greatest difficulty that the attendants
arouse him when his time for sleep has expired
WORKOUT nature asserts her rights with iron-hand
and yields her rol the sleeper only in obedi
ence to force. Whppings have been resorted TO in
similar elsewhere, but yet in this case al
though is impossible say what will be necessary
before the end Of the thousand hours The last hour
will be that ending at three o'clock Tuesday
ing September s. and when the prisoner is released
he will need weeks care before he be left to
himself If allowed to sleep uninterruptedly, he
would sleep week, or probably never wake
again.
We have given these details, believing descrip-
ton of the phenomena of such a would be in
terestiDg to the Unintiated and at the same time
enable them TO appreciate The amount of trial and
fatigue which rigid training may enable the human
body TO endure.
Rouge Gazette, under the above heading, has the fol-
lowing:
own. St. Martin, Of this city, has invented m en-
CINE which be constructed, boiler and all, for
about $50 The machine is so simple that We might
with prOpriety say it is merely escape pipe taking
mp no more rom The steam admitted into the
centre of a drum or cylinder, in which the shaft
works; from this power is applied directly without
further friction. The other day We saw the perfect
ed model of the engine pumping water about 20 feet
and throwing it into reservoir at the brewery -