British Manly Exercises

FEATS I N R U N N I N G . 17 The mile was perhaps neverrun in four minutes; but it has been done in four minutesand a half. A mile in five minutes is good running. Two miles in ten minutes is oftener failed in than accomplished. Fourmiles in twenty is said to puzzle the cleverest. len miles an hour is done by all the best runners, l ifteenmiles in an hour and a half has never perhaps beendone. Forty miles in four hours and threequarters or less, it is said, was done by one individual. As to greatdistances, Kainerfailed in two attempts to accomplish 100 miles in eighteen hours. Captain Barclay'swalking 180 miles without resting, and also 1000 miles in 1000 successive hours, are sufticiently well known.