MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 92, 21 March 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

The Otago Gatrdnra hat toepMted several webs of yellow woottea »iteru| manufactured by the Mo«ti«l Company to the order of the Government, for the stockade prisoners at AucWandi The color of tbe material U the tsmVa* used to be worn by the old bands of Tasmania, and which obtained for them *c sobriquet of "Canaries.* The eawfy^olouired material is for the special dress of the penal service prisoners, but the short sentence gentleman will doB ft grey colored dress with yellow stripes running through the material. Why the memories of the old tagtsnv should be revived im New Zealand in the choke of such ft color for a prison *re»* is another of those things which no fellow with aay brains would possibly pretend to understard. Tom Brown, writing iff the New Zeft* land Mail, says :— A frieed writing to me from Victoria by the last mail, and who m pauant w one of the beat all round cricketers in the eoloDy, s«ye, speaking of the English cricketers: yo* want to know what I think about them? Wett I think they are the best that have been here, but they have never played pioperly yet—and this not from anf kwvefy, but carelessness, they don't care • a* whether they win or lose, and ««*]"•£ hate some interest in winning J*™ they have not) they will never thuik it worth their while to refuse goodea-ine, and plenty of drinking and mkow and in iaot evertbin* that unfits men to play the game properly. The Melbourne Leader says ir4» traiaing for gymnastic exercises mwiioos to health P An official inoairt hat Nentsi on foot in Prance to decide the point After six months inquiry it was ascertained that gymnastic .exercises teerease tbe muscular force about 10 per cent on the average, while the mcrewsometiißes attains the maximum of 30 per cent. When the streoth has been more on one side of the body than tbe other the exercises tend to-eouaJ^y. 3T|s»p*«ty; of the chest » wereased at kast one*, sixtb. Although the weight is reduced by training, it is iacreaved by tbe exercises, themsetres, tbe muscular increase being usually in excess of the reduotio* to tbe extent of 6or 7 per cent, »IW ofttß more Tbe maximum of muscular force is reached^ in about three mofttus ; and after that it begins to diminish, sometimes at a serious, rate. The strain eann>t be kept up, and, it becomes necessary to moderate or sue* psnd the exercises, Excess i% thtiefof

•PWWntly Injurious in all things, a con*W« .Hileb, however, should not be ttflM&ed to imply that all kinds of ezoess *»• equally bad. IWi it bow a Bydrfsy reporter ehrdnieles th« committal of foaferes* ;— •• Tsll en Wright, having abandoned herself to the gaieties of the season' in a manner so unreserved andmnladylike that a particularly pnnetilion« policeman at once pronounced B«r to be an' 1 idle and disorderly person,' •» M 9ueh introduced her to their Worships ; they, taking a similar view of tie young lady's position sent her to drum 'that she dwelt in marble halls' for three months, in the magnificent ttttiiofc of the 'Governor of Darlingborst/ " It would be almost worth while getting rail in to get such a high-toned notice. The College of Cardinals now contains three English speaking Cardinals, a thing unprecedented since the time of Henry VIII. _____