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THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1896.
Triumph of the Wheel.
The social and industrial revolution
effected by the wheel is the greatest fact
of this decade, and we have seen only
the beginning of it. While plumbers
complained of its effect on their earn-
ings, 6%9 of thegfnerchnnt princes of
the metropolis wig protesting that the
wheel was playing havoc with 'the dry
goods business, because the people who
used to luxuriate in fancy dress goods
are now satisfied with a bicycle suit or
two, in a season.
These are only samples of the dislo-
cations in trade already effected by the
new machine, but they are trivial com-
pared with what is to come. The bicy-
ele has made its 'way thus far against
the formidable obstacle of wretched
streets and roads, a wheel trust and
high prices. The wheelmen are Lumer-
ousenough now to secure good pave-
ments, and in a few years every city
street and country byway will be
smooth and comfortably ridable. Then
everybody will bike. .
Already arrangements have been
perfected for the utilization of over .600
miles of towpaths along state canals as
bicycle tracks. But a great success is
also a tempting target for politicians.
Just now the wheelmen are sufficiently
in evidence to be a shining mark for
such schemes as a license tax.
It seems clear that we shall owe~to
the bicycle that long striven for, but
hitherto apparently hopeless reform in
masculine costume—the abolition of the
trouser. This ungainly, inartistic, in-
convenient and in every way indefensi-
bleagarment never came into general
use among ciy111Zed men until the
present century, but .oncehere,‘ it 'fas-
tened upon us w1th a grip which no
effort has been able to shake elf.
Forlorn hopes have been led against
the Ireuser by heroic reformers, but in
vain. But at last the bicycle has made
It possible for a man to appear among
his fellows in knickerbockers without
attracting remark, and the rest will
come of itself. _
Art fights by the side of the bicycle
for dress reform in the case of men, but
she turns away her head from the
bloomer. It must be confessed that a
woman in bloomers is not as goodly to
.. the eye as one In skirts, and therefore,
as beauty Is the first 0 msideration wzth
women, skirts are likely to prevail.
But the emanc’palion of man is cause
enough fir thankfulness, even if the
wheel fails to give us a new woman.
Yet we shall ever be grateful to the
bicycle for the many wonders it has»
effected and the most wonderful wonder
is the change it has wrought in the in-
dependence of woman as to her costume.
Not that the ideal garments have
been reached, but that it has at last
been made possible, after a persistent
endeavor extending through thousands
of years, for a woman to dress according
to her own individual taste, without
causing unpleasant remarks. That is
the victory which has been won, and‘Tt
is a most important victory.
From pezsunal independence as a
starting point. a woman can be trusted
to approach the .deal with rapid stridts.
This ideal hi. 5 fJf.‘ its filst condition that
which is becoming. No fashion will
las‘. long which makes woman unattrac-
tive. It is safe, therefore, to predict
that the present styles of bicycle gar.
meuts will be short lived and that fem-
. ininc genius will soon invent a costume
which will be both attractive and use-
ful.
The short skirt and knickerbockers
are comingr into vogue for rainy
weather and it will not be long before a
s‘iirt trailing in the slush and mud will
be as disagreeably conspicuous as it
has always been unhealthy. The re-
form is in the air; it is advocated by
the common sense of the community;
the old fashions have outlived their use-
fulness, and a radical and agreeable
change hasbecome inevitable.
The bicycle is proving itself to be a
dress-reform missionary. It is predic-
ative of a coming millennium in dress.
If you have anything to sell try an
advertisement'in our columns.
A word to the wise, etc.
THE SOLDIER BOYS.
There Were, many more native-born
soldiers in the union armies during the
civil war than there were foreign—born
soldiers.
Each German army corps is to be
equ 'pped with a. portable crematory. It
resembles a. huge baking oven, and is
draw 11 by eight horses.
Osman L'Itrobe, Jr., and Stew art Jun-
ney, tVV o y oung mcn well known in the
social life of Baltimore, have created»
some“ hat of a. sensation in that city by
sailing for Cuba in order to join the
insurgents.
No less than 535 discharged soldiers
were among the 4,050 pe1sons who
passed through the casual ward of the
Nottingham (England) poorhouse dur-
ing the first three months of this year.
Burglnrs broke into the barracks of
the One Hundred and Thirtieth infan-
try regiment in the Rue, de Baby lone in
Paris recently, carried 01? the safe with
2,5 000 bodily, and forcing the colonel s
safe stole his. private valuables.
A famous regiment’s colors, those of
the Seaforth Highlanders, are to be
sold at auction in London soon. They
formed part of the heirlooms belonging
to the grandson of a former colonel of
the regiment.
Cordite does not shatter the body as
much as gunpowder. The inference is
draw 11 from the condition of the head of
a. my al artillery/man at Dover, who had
fired into it the cordite cartridge of a
new Martini-Metford rifle.
Chili has a new Esmeralda,
armor belt six inches thick and seven
feet high, extending over 350 feet of
her length, in addition to the armored
deck. The Esmeralda is expected to
make 22 knots under natural draught.
IN BEATEN PATHS.
Italy has two kinds of naturalization
«the one under the law and the other
conferred by royal decree.
A train runs 110w between Paris and
St. Petersburg in 48 hours, the only
change of cars being at the Russian
frontier.
It is a popular superstition in Ger-
many that if a young girl buries a drop
of her blood under a rose-bush, she will
be sure to have rosy checks.
The Danube flows through countries in
which 52 languages and dialects are
spoken. It bears on its current four-
fifths of the commerce of eastern
Europe.
England proposes__to reform its Sun—
day laws; a. committee of the lords has
been appointed to amend them, the
lord chancellor and archbishop of Can-
terbury at the head.
Barely 52 per cent. of the household-
ers of London take a morning newspa-
per, 69 per cent. take either a morning
or evening newspaper and 31 per cent.
purchase neither.
A London court recently condemned
to three months’ imprisonment. a man
who had supported himself 15 years by
means of begging letters. Over 500 of
these were 'found in his room. He had
squandered his wife‘s property, V'vorth
$75,000.
ELECTRICAL SPARKS.
The Luchine rapids are to be used to
generate electricity for lighting Mon-
ireal. 1..
An electric vulcanizer for the repair-
ing of pneumatic tires is one of the
late st inventions. ‘
Horscless mail wagons, propelled
either by electricity or naphtha, w in
soon be running through the streets
of Boston.
A wealthy gentleman in Vienna, stip-
ulated in his will that an electric light
must be constantly burning in his tomb,
and another inside his coffin, for 1:2
months after his death.
There are about. 120 public electric
lighting systems in operation in the
United Kingdom, of which 19 belong to
London. No less than 54 systems
are now run. by the municipal author--
ities. .
W. H. Preece states that since. the
electric light was introduced into the
general post office, London, the days of
absence among both oflicinls and em-
ployee have been reduced at the rate
of two per annum for each. The sav-
ing is sufiicient to pay for the light.
MEDICINAL VALUE OF FOOD."
Honey is wholesome, strengthening,
cleansing, healing and nourishing.
Peanuts for indigefition. They are
especially recommended for corpuleut
diabetics.
Celery is invaluable as food for those
suffering from any form of rheuma-
tism, for diseases of the nerves and
nervous dyspepsia.
Fresh ripe fruits are excellent for
purifying the blood and toning up the
system. As specific remedies oranges
are apericnt. Sour oranges are highly
recommended for rheumatism.
Eggs contain a large amount of nutri-
ment in a compact, quickly available
form. Beaten up row with sugar they
are used to clear and strengthen the
voice. With sugar and lemon juice the
beaten white of eggs will relieve hoarse-
noes.
Raw beef proves of great benefit to
persons of frail constitution, and to
those suffering from consumption. It
is chopped fine, seasoned with salt and
heated 'by placing it in a dish of hot
water. It assimilates rapidly and af-
fords'the best nourishment. '
NOTES AWI—IE’EL.
An inscription has been put on the
Matterhorn reading. “Notice. This
hill IS dangerous for bicycles.”
There is but; one scarlet bicycle in
London, and Sir John Gorst, vice presi-
dent of the council, the minister for
education, rides it. Archbishop Walsh,
of Dublin,'also rides a wheel.
Count Tolstoi, who went among the
bicyclists last year, aged 67, recently
applied in Moscow for the permit which
wheelmen need who wish to ride within
the city lines.
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launched in England, protected by an '
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