CYCLING ODDITIES.
BOMK CCKIOSITIK9 IN THE
WOULD OF WIIRKLS.
fi Three-Year-OM Rider Who Makes
Ten-Mile Trips A Fancy
Rider's Startling Trick
Perilous Ride,
Y "VSTTOULD yon like an Intro-
dnetion to the youngest
, bicycle rider in Chicago,
it not in the world,
Asks the Chicago Times-Herald.
This is his picture. The ton tig
man is just three years old ana
he live at 2760 Commercial street,
Bavenswood. His name is Allison
Fried berg. He rides an odd little
baby bioyolo, the wheels of which are
only sixteen inches in diameter and
the seat twenty-two inches (torn the
A THREE-YEAR-OLD
ground. Not long ago he rode from
Bavenswood to Lincoln Pork and back,
distance of ten miles, in less than
half a day. He learned to ride very
easily, and is nst at all afraid.
A FANCY RIDER'S STARTLING THICK.
It is a matter of frequent comment
that the safety does not present the
opportunity for fancy trick riding that
the ordinary did. With all that, some
very remarkable "stunts" have been
thousht ont by the professional ent er-tainer-",
one of the moBt startling of
jWhiob, as performed by young Lee
Siiohardson, is herewith illubtrated.
ffhe rider turns himself around and
Suddenly lies down on the handle bar,
Ilia feet out ahead. In this unoomfor
Sable position he rides, twisting the
foedalK with his hand. Then be turns
over, so to speak, and takes the almost
'indescribable position show in the il
lustration, looking as though he was
' A PERILOUS BIDE. '
A STARTLING TRICK.
trailing his wheel along after' him by
main force.
j FKRTLODB BIDING).
; ' The attention of the foolkiller is
(directed to the young men who race
(with railroad trains, cross railroad
bridges on the ties, ride down steep
sights of stairs or peddle along the
brinks of preoipioes, after the wanner
J Maltby, who recently shocked the
wtaid people of Aberdeen, bootland,
by bis perilous ride on the narrow top
of the wall of the ooean pier. That
' LMtby can do suoh a triok is not so
rwnarkable as that he is willing to do
ti at ell or a little notoriety. .
A SIMIAN CTCLtST. I
"Little Joe." a most intnlliiront
onrang outang, ot Portland, Oregon, 1
learned to ride in three lessons, so his
press agent says. Like all beginners, I
he is rery enthusiastic, and shows
bad temper when forced to dismonnt
from his bioyole, which is of speoial
construction with a twenty-inch wheel.
"Joe" has a brother, who is a resident
of Spokane Falls, where he is giving
exhibitions. The brother is booked
for a metropolitan appearance daring
the next theatrical season.
KEW DEVICES AXD INVENTIONS.
The latest device for the production (
of rubber tires, for which an American ,
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mfcGu una irccu dgvuioU) is uiiiuiniij
described as "A protective covering
for pnenmatio tires consisting of e
padding over the tire, a circumferen
tial spring-metal band lying npon Jsaid
padding, and a flexible metallic olotb
fitted over and surrounding said band
BICYCLE RIDER.
and said padding and adapted to be
attached to the rim of the wheel."
Nothing can stop the bioyole inven
tor. His applications are received at
the rate of a hundred daily at Wash
ington, and already outnumber the
total of washing machines, churns and
automatio oouplers for railroad oars.
He seems to be filled with the idea that
a bicycle to te operated by hand in
stead of foot power is the real, origi
nal, long felt want. Suoh a machine
might be operated by the legless won
der of the dime mnseums, but what
any one else would want with it is not
clear. Many of the inventions are,
however, of merit, and they relate to
details in the intrioate portions of the
maohine. There are some new things
in the line of package carriers, and in
the smooth paved cities a year hence
at least ninety per cent, of the light
delivery ot dry goods, millinery, hats,
shoes, dowers, confectionery, grocer
ies, provisions, etc, will be through
the medium of vehiolcs operated by
boys and young men.
BICYCLE DISEASES.
Tne doctors are still busy discover
ing new bioyole diseases. There is the
bicycle throat, the bioyole eye, and
the nose, spine, arm, foot, lungs,
liver, heart and possibly the cyclist's
vermiform appendix. As a matter ot
faot, however, the thing that is worry
ing the dootors is the general prev
alence of bieyole health.
COMBINATION OABMBXT.
A remarkable combination garment
for men only eomes from Germany,
where they make gasoline motooyoles
that weigh 150 pounds. Herr Braok
ner is the father of this interesting
pair of "pants," which may, by pull
ing a string, be eonverted from knick
erbookers into trousers, suitable for
any occasion.
THE BICYCLE A BEPORMEB.
A New York minister of the gospel,
active in temperanoe work, said at a
pnblio meeting that the bioyole bad
done more for the oause of sobriety
than anything else in the past twenty
years. Keep a man in health and be
will care nothing for rum. By the
way, talking about ths bieyole as an
aid to moral reform movemonts, the
Salvation Army will have a fully
equipped bioyole oorps for suburban
servioe on wheels, and the plan of or
ganisation for the new military body
within the ranks of the Episcopal
Ohuroh, whioh is to be known as the
United States Ohuroh Army, calls for
a bioyole oorps with eaoh regiment,
which, in New York Oity, will assame
the proportions oi a "bioyole brigade,"
New York Journal.
Piles from 100 to 103 feet long are
used by the Taooma (Wash.) Land
Company. They are out from Wash
ington fir, which has furnished piles
1.0 feet long and two feet square at
the butt'
DRESS DEVICES.
THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
-1ST FKM1MXE FASHIONS.
Handsomely Trimmed Wrappers
With nishop Sleeves Naval
Jackets With Vent-Other
Dainty Designs.
IN the first large illustration white
dimity is handsomely trimmed
with delft blue and white em
broidery and insertion to match,
bine satin ribbon forming the stock
collar, cuff bows and tied semi-girdle
at the waist line. The closing in cen-
LADIES' WRAPPER WITH BISHOP 8LEEVE3.
re front is invisible under a band of
nsertion. The gown is shaped in
ihe favorite princess style, fitting
imoothly below the waist where eaoh
ieam is gradually widened to produce
he fashionable fluted effeot in the
ikirt. The bishop sleeves are gathered
lop and bottom, cuff bands finishing
be wrists. A frill of embroidery and
t band of ribbon with bow forms the
lainty decoration. The gown can be
nade up with or without lining, the
ityle being equally well adapted to
fool, silk, cotton or linen fabrios,
lashmere, batiste, grass linen, otira
rio or China silk, and are favorite
naterials with lace, embroidery, rib
ion, gimp or bias bands for deoora
lion. The quantity of material 44 inches
rido required to make this tea gown
'or a lady having a 30-inoh bust meas
ire is 6 yards.
NAVAL JACKET OF BLUE WOOL.
For yaohting, boating, seaside or
rdinary country wear no other style
it jaoket is half as fetching or appro
priate with a sailor hat as the one de
lineated in the second large picture.
Savy blue wool canvas cloth and white
luok are the materials selected, the
rest and collar of duok being decorated
with rows of blue braid. Single bust
3arts and undor-arm gores perform
the smooth adjustment, the neck is
finished with a standing oollar and the
lower edge is shaped in rounded out
line. Ihe naval jaoket is ol lastuona
NATAL JACKET,
ble length and flares widely in front,
the broad sailor oollar forming pointed
covers to the waist line. The duok
Dollar is removable and overlaps the
canvas collar to within an inch of the
edge. Two handsome white peart but
tons deoorate eaoh front. The baok
and sides fit closely to the waist line,
1 falling bolow in rippling folds that
are induoed by the shaping. The
: sleeves are in gigot style, shaped by
' tingle seams and are of fashionable
I in, iha fiillnaai at the ton bain? ar
ranged in side plaits with a single box
plait at the top. Jaokets in this style
ean be made to matob or contrast with
the skirt and are adapted to the linen,
I sotton and woolen fabrics that are now
su vogue for summer wear. Insertion,
'embroidery, bias bands, braid or
j giBp 0ea be used in decorating or a
plain finish can be given if to pre
ferred.
The quantity of material 44 inohef
wide required to make this jacket for
a lady having a 30-inch bust measure
is 8 yards.
SrflRT WAIST or GRASS LtXEX.
Grass linen, with figured design in
white embroidery, is here stylishly
worn with white linen collar and
Cliffs. wMfth nnn Via ma.ln
i"u ivuiuTnum
or attached rtnrmAnntifl taaial
The crest vnrintv nf alvlaa 4n t. .
hitherto popular summer shirt waist
argues iur it an unprecedented vogue
this season. Tha atvla tiara n...nn.
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ed is unusually attractive and sensi-
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uie, uemg very generally becoming,
the fullness at the neck and shoulder
edges produces a soft and graceful ef
feot over the bust. A box plait fin
ishes the right front edge through
which buttonholes are worked to ef
feot the closing with studs or buttons. -
The back is gatheredat top and joined
8HIBT WAIST OF OBASS LINEN.
to a yoke lining with straight lower
edge, the double pointed yoke being
placed over the gathers and stitched
tirmly down on its lower edge, thus
insuring a durable finish. A shaped
neok bind completes the neek when
the rolling collar is made separately.
WITH VEST.
The bishop shirt sleeves are slashed at
the baok and the opening finished
with cuff laps, wrist bands oompleting
the wrists to which the rolling oufls
are buttoned. Plaits or a oasing and
draw strings adjust the fullness at the
waist line, and the dress skirt is worn
over the full lower edge. A narrow
belt of white kid enoiroles the waist.
Peroale, oatnbrie, lawn, batiste and
gingham in stripes, checks, figured
and plain effects all make up stylishly
by the mode.
The quantity of material 88 inohes
wide required to make this shirt waist
for a Judy ' having a 88 inoh bust
measure is 8 yards.
The bioyole habit may not be at
tractive, but there's something ia it.
Adams Freeman.
10B FARM AM) GARDE.
commox rtnrosE cow.
The following is a good description
of tho common purpose cow. Sup
pose a farmer desired to raise somo
small grain, and somo corn, nud some
truck, such as onions, cabbage, etc.,
and in providing the necessary tools
he would conclude he would not fill up
his tool house with a variety of imple
ments adaptodto each crop, but would
just buy one eight-inch plow. He
knows it is too sinnll for field plowing,
and too large to cultivato cabbage and
onions, but it is about half way be
tween aud a kind of a happy medi
um a common purposo tool. You
would hardly give that man creilit for
real good judgment. Cows are the
dnirymeii's tools in a certain sense,
aud should be specially adapted to
their work.
RARXESS rOLIflll.
Four ounces glue, one and one-half
pints viuegar, two ounces gum urabic,
half piut black ink, two drams isin
glass. Break the glue in pieces, put
it in a basin and pour over it about a
pint of vinegar; let it Btand until it
becomes perfectly soft. Put the gum
in auother vessel, with the ink, till it
is perfectly dissolved ; melt tho isin
glass in as much water as will cover it,
which may be easily done by placing
the cup containing it near the
fire about an hour before you want
to use it. To mix them, pour
the remaining vinegar with tho
softened glue into a sand pau upon a
gentle fire, stirring until it is perfectly
dissolvod,that it may not burn the bot
tom, being careful not to let it reach
the boiling point about eighty-two
degrees C. is the beat. Next add the
gum, let it arrive at tho same heat
again; add the isinglass. Take from
tho fire and pour it off for use. To
use it put as much as is required iu a
saucor; heat it sufficiently to make it
fluid, and apply a thiu coat with a
piece of dry sponge ; if the article is
dried quickly, either in the sun or by
fire, it will have the better polish.
Amorican Farmer.
THE FINE-TOOTH COMB IX CROP CULTI
VATION. The contest is still on between the
old-fushioned and the new-fashioned
cultivation of coarse crops. The old
fashion says: "You cuu't iimko ma bo
liove that your new-fangled wcoders
and smoothing harrows can tell tho
difference between a corn pluut and a
weed." The new fashion retorts:
"Your dull hoe and soddy coru rows
drove the boys off the farm." It is a
sort of guerilla warfare upon tho out
posts of the two systems. The sober
seeker after truth would like to seo
the real issues joined, for he is teudor
both of his back aud of his young
plants. The impartial student of the
quostion will find that tho now-fungled
maohino does not distinguish between
spooics of plauts, but it does
have a brutal respect for
strength, and will tear out the hair
like tendril of a just-sprouted weed
but luave uuharmed tho deeper rooted
corn or potato pluut But it will
leave the weed if onoe well established ;
therefore "early and often" is a by
law of tho process. On the other
band, if the smoothing barrow or
weudor oan sorapo along a pieoe of
sod, a flat stone, or an old corn stub,
it appears to enjoy the destruction of
a young corn plant equally with the
orow or chipmunk. A clean surface
in preparing for the crop is therefore
another necessity of successful use of
the now corn culture. With these
things in mind tho new method can be
made a greut improvement on the old,
by any furmur. American Agricul
turist. niNOISO TREES-
Architects will remember that tho
old books on buildings advise that the
trees intended to be cat for timber
should have a ring of bark out around
the trunk iu the latter part of tho win
tor preceding the autumn aeason iu
which they are to be fulled. This ad
vice seems to have bseu founded ou
experienoe, but so fur is we know it
is never followed iu modem times.
Very reoeutly, however, M. Mer, of
the forest sohool of Nancy, in answer
lug au inquiry as to the best means
for preserviug wooden telegraph poles
from the ravages of inteots, explains
the effect of "ringing" growing trees
in a very iuterestiug manuer.
' According to M. Mer, a tree in
tended to be used for a telograph pole
should be out in the autumn, and dur
ing tho preceding winter should have
a riug out out'ot the bark, down to
the wood, near the upper part ot the
trunk. If this is done the asoeut of
sap in the spring is prevented, as it is
well known that the ssp circulates
just wider the bark. t The tree never
thcless grows,' consuming as nulri
tuent the starch grains laid up in the
sapwood. When the season's growth
is over, the starch in the sapwood is
gone, but, as fresh sap uas not
been allowed to circulate, no new
starch has been doposited in
its place to supply the next season's
growth, and when the tree is felled its
tissues contain no starch, and conse
quently no food for insects, which.
feed upon wood, and which, accord
ing to M. Mer, only eat the wood for
the starch which they Dud in it To
inject wood with sulphate of copper,
as is often done, M. Mer says helps
to complete its protection, but only
on condition that the starch is first re
moved as he suggests.
FLOWER OARDEX AXD LAWX.
Very much of the beauty of flower
beds and borders depends upon keep
ing them scrupulously clean and neat.
The Dutch or ssuflle hoe is the best of
all tools fur hoeiug and stirring the
ground around the plauts. Such
plants as. dahlias, gladioluses aud
hollyhocks require to be staked, but
the stakes should be as short as poBsi
bio nud not conspicuous; and tie
rather loosely, especially dahlias, so as
to allow the stems to expand without
being injured. The flowers will come
more perfect if the small and weak
shoots are removed. The faded flower
stems should be removed from
roses and scarlet geraniums; it im
proves their appearance and strength
ens tho plants. Roses are greatly
benefited by an occasional soaking
with guuuo water, especially the over-
blooming varieties. It is a good prao
tice to insert small pieces of brush
wood rather thickly among the plants
of petunias, verbenas, and Drummond
phlox, for the support of their spread
ing stems; this will prevent them from
being beaten to the ground by dash
ing ruins, aud give the mass of flowers
a more elevated and improved 'ap
pearance.
It is sometimes asserted that lawns .
should not be cut close during dry
weather, in order that the grass may
better slindo tlo roots. We do not
think there is much point iu this. Of
courso.but little of mowing is required
when the grass suffers for waut of
rain, but it is an erroneous idea that
uioister is preserved around the roots
of plauts by tho shude ot their luxuri
n nt growth ; this is a fallacy, as are
ull methods which proposo to mulch
with n growing crop. This is well ex
eiupliilol where efforts are made to
secure iluo lawns by sowing oats with
the giuss seod-t for tho purpose of,
shading the grass. Tho oat plant is
the master of tiiu situation, and exerts
its right by absorbing all the uutri
ruont, and so the grasses perish. The
Silver Kuigbt.
FARM AXD OARDEX MOTES.
Cut green bone prudnoes a wondor
ful growth iu young chicks.
Sue that the chicks have plenty of
water and thut it is not fouled. Milk is
a valuable addition to tbo ration.
The hen is an egg machine, and if
you would run it successfully, you
must learn how to run it properly.
Do uot expect to get a dozen exhi
bition fowls out of a single setting of
one dollar eggs. If you do yon will
be doomed to disappointment
While duoks aud geese do not seem .
subject to roup or ouolera, tbey will
ofteu become lume aud droopy if too
closely confined iu damp and close
quarters.
Use tho kerosene can about the neat
and coop, to keep off the lice. There
is nothing butter than kerosene oil to
keep the old and youug stock free of
such pests.
Don't lot tho chicks get wet, but if
they are caught in a sudden shower, a .
warm basket behind the kitchen stove
will do wonders for them, eveu when
they seem almost goue. .
Eggs ou the farm produce more
cash betweeu crops thau anything else,
and iu that respect have done more to
help farmer to tide over the interval
from harvest to spring than may be
conceived of.
If you have given the hen proper
care while she has beou on the nest,
she will not bo bothered by lioe, but
to make assurauco doubly sure, it is
safe to give her a dusting with Per
sian powder
Farmers should plant part ot their
gardeus for their poultry. They should,
uot let the poultry gather it for them
selves, but they should furnish them
iu their enclosure plenty of vegetable
food lettuoo and oabbage will be
eaten with relislj aud be beneficial.
The purslane weed will be good food
when it is iu your way in the garden,
Turuips and tomatoes are quite pala
table to healthy chicken. Cueumbers
would be eaten, but they are not good
food tor youog fowls.
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