The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-03-30
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t. Pfotessois Wilson, of Edinburgh, the
famous. Kit. North of BiackWood's
-Mdgdztae, was In his day one of tho
most, athletic mon in Scotland. !. He
was q great patron of outdoor sports,
'and at walking, running or">jumping
,it:t60k 50 ffist~rate professional to beat
ham y. We extract from his writings
the foll0Wing opinion of what makes a
good juInpers:"A high jumper will
%olear five feet, syfrst-ratc one five and
"a hull, and an out-and-outcr among
the ttrst.rates six feet, The" late MI.
lnglehg, of Lano,tsler, we have seen
clear stick held six feet two inches
high, springing off the turnpike road,
With:a run of about five Yards. =. What
Mr.. Ireland could do without spring.
Eoard we know not--probably not
two inches, more--thnn Mr.. Ingleby.
Mr. Inglfby' dospiscd porpcndiculari-
ty, and swaycd himself over almost
horizontally with singular grace, Gle
gance and facility.
"Twclve feet for good standing
<singlo jump OIL level ground; fourteen
is a. job Tor two on three in the coun-
try; twenty feet Oh level ground is a
first rate running single jump, but has
been done often; twcDty-ono is some
thing very extraordinary, but not
'aiwnys apocryphal; and twenty-two is,
we believe, accomplished about once
every twenty years, and that almost
always by ali 1rishman. A hundred
soYcreigns to. five against any man in
EnRlard doing Twenty-Five feet on a
dead level. With q run and leap, on
a slightly inclined plane, perhaps an
ineh:to a yard, we have seen twenty
three feet done in great style-alid
discovered to nicety; but tho man
who: did it (aged twcnty-one, height,
five feet eleven inches, weight, eleven
stone,) was admitted to be Urcland
exceptcd) the best far-leaper of his day
in England.
:. cat standing hop-step-and-a-iump,
level ground, ten yards is good
eleven excellent and twelve the ex-
tent of any man's tether. We have
heard of thirteen, but believe it to be
a lie. With q run, thirteen Yards is
good, fourteen great, and fifteen
:prodigious. Perhaps there arc not
six authenticated cases on record of
fifteen being donc on level ground,
and by actual measurement. All
gacss-work exploits shrivcl up a good
yard, or sometimes two, whom brought
to the measure, and the champion of
thecounty dwindles into a clumsy
clodhopper. Ireland, it is said, did
sixteen yards OH Knav esmire, before
he was known to the world; and in
decd was noticed by the soiue London
ers on that occasion, and brought for
ward at the amphitheater. lie was
the best leapcr, both high and far, that
ever jumped in England; and take
him for all in all, it is most certain
that we shall never look upon his like
again" ,.
"A Western man, having lost his
wife, was accosted by q sympathizing
hiend,: who remarked upon his woe
bcgoho appearance: "Wcll, I guess
:Yon'Wopld look thin,r too," was the
melancholy rcioindcr, eff you had to
get up before daylight, make the fires,
draw water, split wood, and foed the
cattle, all before breakfast. Iiust tell
you what it is, if don't get somebody
10 fill poor, dear, sainted Maria's
place, / will be resting by her side be-
fore many weeks arc past"
. .f,;zsaHThere's., : something about your
desEhaF6 MS ,"nofh;sp MneghG;"p S2id d, rsss:
fdangl,str+s'' eyes," said old Mr..
Thistlepod; ''thcreis. I had noticed
it myself. 1t comes every evening
about eight o'clock, and it doesn't get
away usually till about two. And
some Of these nights am going to lift
1t all tho way from tho front parlor to
the site gate, and'see what there's in
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The great beau of Florence is the
Prince Picre Strozzi, who devotes him
self to the married ladies and only ex-
changes pretty glances with the single
ones. He drives a pair Of handsome
gray ponies. The girl he may marry
must be beautiful, have blue blood and
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