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Show RUN ONE HUNDRED MILES A DAY. Ordinary Marathon races seem rather rath-er Insignificant compared with the regular performances of a certain East Indian casta Those Kahars, also known as Jhinwarb, live In the Punjab, Pun-jab, whero for centuries they haVe acted as runners, fl&hermcn and water fowl catchers. Tlfts men aro trained runners and are said to be able to go a hnndred miles a day without resting. According Accord-ing to Baily's Magazine there is a well authenticated Instance that Tika Ram, the son of Lalu Ram, carried- dispatches dis-patches 300 miles In three days from Mean-MIr to Mcerut The point discussed, however. Is whether tho normal exertions of tho Kahar post runners and the similar exertions of jlnrlksha men shortened their lives, and it appears that tho Kahars, trained from childhood to be distance runners, live to be old men; they are not only able to withstand tho strain of running great distances under a heaw load, but thrive under it. The jinriksha man, too, notwithstanding notwith-standing his irregular diet, excessive use of liquor and exposure to the elements, ele-ments, lives to a reasonable age. In Toklo when a census was taken of tho jinriksha men three years ago, there wore found to bo more thnn 1,-300 1,-300 vho -were over f5 yours of age. ' |