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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5050, 20 March 1885, Page 2

A volunteer from Goulburn, one of the Sydney contingent for the Soudan, went' to Yass (his native place), to bid his friends good-bye, and he was escorted to the station by about 75 persons, who cheered him most heartily as he got into the carriage. When the oheering was orer, » prisoner, who was in the next carriage, put his head out of the window and said to the crowd, « Give a cheer for me, boyi, as I am going to serve Her Majesty, too." The Phrenological Journal says on * physical growth :—Tendencies of growth are inherent, but they can be promoted by outdoor exercises, good food, and proper habits. One who lives improperly, it, given to the common vices of the day. does not sleep sufficiently, is irregular and erratic in his diet, oan not be expeoted to grow info vigorous conditions; he will become warped and stunted in some respects. We have no doubt that the use of. alcohol and tobacco suppresses normal physical development; that many,a per* son is deprived of his heritage of height and strength by reason of early imprudence in these respects. Indoor life and ah occupation which prevents one fron> •zeroising the limbs normally, will haw tome effect in rufeugiog on*'* growth*