Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-06-10
eureka Dailp 5entinel.
-yrGLECTED MUSCLE.

Because thousands Of spectators flock
to the boat races, ball matches and other
athletic diversions that a few spirited
fellows indulge in every holiday, says the
New York Herald, there is a general i'm
preston that muscle is held in high
esteem by the present generation. The
truth is that for every man who takes
part in the games there are a score of
spectators who never willingly indulge
in any exercise more violent than that Of
cigarette sucking, and among the re-
mainder there are not many who can see
that athletic sport is good for anything
unless it enables a man to Guido some
body else and get his name into the news
papers. The idea of cultivating and
maintaining muscle because it deserves
good treatment, and because it richly re-
pays its owner for all that is done, is one
that seldom gets fairly into the American
mind. Most of our men Of good phys
ique have either their parents or their
daily work to thank for it; not anything
that they themselves have Intentionally
done for the purpose Of securing a sound
world to obtain general physical training,
for %gymnasiums are few, and men COM
petent to manage them are fewer; but
any man can devise some exercise for un-
used muscles that will be a great improve
ment on nothing. Merely to swing the
arms, bend the back, or go through the
motions of fencing or boxing for quarter
of an hour every day would make any
~listless young fellow far better company
to himself than ever before, and it might
prevent him being as much of a bore to
other people as ~listless fellows usually are.
INTERPRETATION In IRELAND.
According to a Parliamentary return
which has just been made, the marriage
statistics of Ireland show a large falling
off during the past year, the decrease be-
ing about 25 per cent below the average
for the last decade. The number Of
births, it is also noted, was considerably
less, while the mortality reached a higher
point than at any period since 1864.
Notwithstanding all of this, however,
the population of the island would
have shown an increase Of some 25, 600
had it not been for the extraordinary en-
igration, the figures of which were nearly
100, 900. 1t will be seen, therefore, that
if, as has been asserted by some econo-
mists, the evils that beset the country
are partly due to o~verpopulation the
natural and artificial forces now in opera
ton are likely to work out a sure and
certain remedy. The proposition that
Ireland is overpopulated is, however,
vehemently controverted by the Irish
National party. To sustain their side of
the question they go back to a period a
generation or so ago, when the population
was double what it is now, and when the
people We're far more prosperous than
they are at the present. These gentle
men seem to forget that aver in Ireland
ssry great social changes have taken
place during the past quarter of a CEN
tury; that the agricultural conditions of
the world have been revolutionized in the
meantime SO that the yield of an English
or Irish acre of land is far less in value
now than it was then. Emigration is the
true remedy for Irish distress. We are
glad that those chiefly interested realize
that fact and that they are leaving the
country as fast as they can.