Practical Training for Running, Walking, Rowing, Wrestling, Boxing, Jumping, and All Kinds of Athletic Feats Together with tables of proportional measurement for height and weight of men in and out of condition; etc. etc.

There being so many classes of individuals who may derive benefit from training, each of whom have different modes of living, and whose particular line of excellences are as dif...

Before any contest, when you are stripped, take a trot to get the limbs into order and keep them warm; the muscles will be less likely to get strained if well heated beforehand....

Cleanliness has been classed as akin to godliness. It certainly takes high rank in equalizing the circulation. The jockeys appreciate its importance. How regularly and carefully...

A mild medicine is usually required to cleanse the blood, as, unless the blood is in good order, and in very many cases it is in any other condition than a good one, the food ta...

If thirsty, one or two oranges will quench that, and be most agreeable to the stomach, as well as being of more benefit than anything else. When in-doors, light dumb-bells and t...

Take a Turkish bath, or the whole body should be stripped and immediately wrapped in a sheet wrung out of cold water, but not so as to get rid of all the water; then, rolling th...

This instrument will clip a horse in two hours, and when clipped the coat is equal to a natural Summer coat. Anyone can use it. Over 200 horses have been clipped by one single m...

Saccharine matter is the great moving cause of fatty corpulence, producing increased weight and a large amount of flatulence; stouty matter is not so troublesome as saccharine,...

Stripes knit in either of the above, extra, $3.50 per doz., 35 cents each. Also imported goods of cheaper qualities, furnished when desired at 20 per cent. less than the above p...

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Yacht Race for the Queen’s Cup, 1870. Sappho and Livonia Yacht Race Cup of 1870. Little Ship Red, White and Blue. Ship Great Republic. Steamship Great Eastern. The R. E. Lee and...