BICYCLE NOTIONS. 60MK NRff IDEAS CONCERNING THE UBIQUITOUS WHEEL. nike" Sledding rromtsed-Attach-niftnt That Makes a Bicycle the Rival of Locomotive A Dos a Motive Power. I f HANKS io Yankee's Jnven I tire Renins, a bicyolo can 1 1 ' now be provided with run re ners, or skates, rendering it possible to spin along over the frozen fluid at a high rate of speed with com parative safety, making all the turns, stops and starts as easily as upon the floor of the riding sohool. This invention consists of an equip ment of three runners, which can be attached to any machine without the slightest Injury one runner for the front wheel and two for the rear. The THE LATEST "BIKE" IDEA rear portion of the bioycle is supported by the runners in euoh a manner that the tire presses upon the ice sufficiently bard to give the friction, or traction, necessary for propulsion. By means ct a lever operated by the hands of the rider the pressure of the tire upon ae ice can be regulated, or if it is de tired to coast the rear wheel can be raised entirely from tne surface, throwing the weight upon the run ner. These rnnners are but a few laches apart They resemble an ex aggerated long Dutch skate. The front wheel does not revolve at 11. The runner is fastened firmly to it, not permitting it to touch the ice. Steering is accomplished in tho or dinary manner, with the handle bars. The brake consists of a number of nnarp teeth or claws which are forced into the ice, just in front of the rear wheel, between the two runners. It is not necessary to put the wheel in motion before mounting. It will etand by itself, and the ri dor can come to a fall stop without getting off. The ice cycler need not confine his travels to frozen bodies of water. He can ride anywhere that good sledding is to be found. Equipped with a set of these runners it is possible to ride wherever a sleigh can travel unless the snow is deep or soft This new attachment appears a little complicated, but io reality it is a very simple affair, and can be attached by any one having a slight knowledge of Machinery in a short time. No tools are required beyond those habitually carried in the tool bag, and the bhyole COMBINATION BICYCLE ON HIGHWAY. is not damaged in an$ way. Detach ing the runners is as easy a matter as putting them on, and they are adapted to ladies' wheels as well as to the diamond frames. A Dof as Motive Power. Laziness is the father of nearly as many inventions as is necessity the rsss eis doo as a motob. mother. Ik certainly bora some rela tion io the attachment whioh a citiien of Strasburg, Oermany, rigged tn his veloelpede to enable hi dog to assist in furnishing the motive power. The dog was hitched behind the ve hiclo at the end of rod so that he pushed Instead of pulled. With the dog's bend hitched to the vehicle he was forced to maintain the proper po sition and his efforts to trot along di rectly under bis master resulted in his taking much of the strata oil that gen tleman's legs. With a powerful dog broken to hainesa and willing to work scorching would be made easy. Ingenious Attachment for nirycles. The accompanying illustrations re produced from the Railway Review show the general appearance of en at tachment for bicycles for adapting them for use on railway tracks as well as highways, which is ingenious and seems to have a merit. The attach ment consists of three gnido wheels and the guides and supports necessary for attaching them to an ordinary bi- A WHEEL ON Hl'NNEKS. oyole in a manner tlint will keep the wheel directly on the center of the rsilroad track. The illustrations show the machine with the attachment in place and the bicycle on a railroad track. When it is desired to use the wheel on a highway the attachment can be easily removed or ran be folded up and carried on the wheel as shown. It is stated that the attach ment complete weighs only fifteen poands, and an ordinary wheel with attachment will weigh less than fifty pounds. The length of time required for adjusting tho attachment on the wheel is given as five minutes, for re moving it one minute, aud for folding it up end securing for highway riding five minutes. The plan is to con struct tho maohine so it will be of use particularly to telegraph and telephone line repair ruou, and for this work a wire reel is carried upon the rear fork of the attachment and the neces sary tools are carried in a satebal sus pended in the frame of the bioyole. For the repair of long distance tele phono lines, which follow both rail ways and highways, it is believed that this maohino aud attachment will bo particularly usnful. It is claimed that a speed of twenty-five miles per hour can be attaired on the maohine, and the inventor states that be can main tain without fatigue a speed of eighteen or twenty miles. C. H. Gar' vey, of Anderson, Ind., is the. inven tor. An Klectrle Tandem. An eleotrto tandem, the invention of COMBINATION BIOYCLE ON A BAILWAY. two Frenchmen, MM. Aucoo and Dor racq, is just now creating a great sen' sation in bicycling oireles In Paris. The machine is an ordinary tandem rigged with an electric motor and compact storage battery. It weighs about twenty pounds and generates two horse power. The motor tnrns at a speed of 8000 revolutions a minute, bnt the problom of gearing it down ic its attachment to the axle has been successfully acoom plished. The motor is able to drive the machine witbont aid from the riders, but pedals are provided as in the recu lar tandem, for the wheel is found to run much more steadily with them. The man in front steers, as in ordi nary tandem riding, while the rider on the seoond seat regulates the speed and acts as engineer. The storage battery at present in use is able to carry the maohine at a speed of over forty miles an hour for about an hour and a half without a change. The inventors devised the maohine expressly to pace contestants in time contests and long road races. In Franoe the cost of hiring pacers in the professional raoesia very eonciderable. and twenty four-hour contests become LmiJm sttrfmnl rvnenat tit tl --j f . p .. - w wr vuo uinunu- ment that is condueting them. The oleotrio tandem is estimated to out down the expense about half. This maohine has been so successful that Frenoh bicyole manufacturers are looking forward to the construction of storage motor in the near future that may be fastened to ordinary single bi cycles and will give effective help in climbing hills or when bursts of speed are needed by tired riders. Biggest Cylole Ever Built. An Eastern tire manufacturing fjrra exhibited at the Louisville meet tho greatest novelty in wheel construction ever attempted. It was a monster tricyole. The machine is fitted with mammoth single tube tires, the front one being of the color characteristic of the firm's product. An idea of the proportio ns of the machine may be gathered from the fact that eight men are required to propel it. Many former attempts hnve boen made to bnild a giant wheel, either a tricycle or a bicycle, but none of them have been successful. Faulty construction has been the obstacle which has pre vented the success of previous simile; undertakings. In theory this trioycla is correct, aud on the roo.l it bns been used with success, appearing at severa! meets around Boston and on tho streets of the city. The extreme height o? the tricycle is about eloven fect,whica is the diameter of the rear wheels whet: the tires sre fully inflated. These tires are of natural rubber cjlor, six teen inches in sectional diameter. The) diameter of the front steerlng-whoel is six feet, cross section nine iuohes. Is is notable that the tire are built up ex actly as the regular tire. The weigh or tue machine is 1153 pounds,withou the eight men, who weigh approximate ly 1 100 pounds more, making the whole affair scale more than a ton. The gear ing is analogous to that of a locomo tive, having n double set of gears, four men driving from each side, and con necting with the wheel on that side. Control of the Wheel. Every bioycle rider should learn how to control his wheel without the aid of his hands. That cannot be dona until one has learned to pedal evenly. which is quite an art in itsolf, and may be attained by practice. Emer gencies arise in which tho full control of the wheel when the hands are not upon it is desirable. LI II mi!? Clinng's ripe. Ilero in a rough sketch of the pipe which Li liung Chang uses wheu he smokes not opium, but tobacco. Or dinarily the tobacco pipes used ia China are made of common white met al, but Li's is exquisitely chased in silver. Its most bulky part is a reser voir of water completely closed in, from the upper part of which rises a vertical suvor tube with a horn mouth piece. Let into the upper part of the water reservoir is the pipe proper, wbioU is adjusted in such a way that its lower extremity toucbos the water. It is not nnlike a cigarette bolder. In another part of the covering is an in dentation for the reserve of tobacco. The pipe has to be replenished every minute or co, nnd there is, more over, the risk, if the tube gets ever so little awry, oi suoKing up, not smoke, but water. Is There Irrigation in Man I It would seem that th e planet Mars is now in a condition to whioh the earth must oome. It is straggling against the gradual disappearance of water on its surfaoe and its atmos pbere. There is no weather there, for there is no ram and tnere are no winds. Dew in winter is deposited on its poles in the form of snow. The rest of the planet oonsiets of deserts with very slight elevations. The inhabitants have met this state of tnings by a gtgantio system of irrigation. What we call canals are irrigated distriots abont thirty miles wide, with a canal run' ning through them, from whioh water is distributed. Here and thore aro large oases of irrigation, and these oases are oonneoted with eaoh ether by means of the canals. When the snows of the poles melt, the melted water is distributed over tue planet, and thus orops are produced. The in habitants store an food and water for that part of the year when there is noither water nor vegetation. Ho rarefied is the atmosphere that one of these inhabitants can work at one twentieth tho exertion that it costs nr, or. in other words, perform with the same expenditure of strength twenty times the task. London Trutu, Kept Ills Word. Bridegroom "I said I'd give np everything I owned for Amanda' sake and I've kept my word," ! jajt 1 ' . FASHION'S REALM. THIS PREVAILING STYLES IN WOMAN'S W EAR. An Up-to-Date Basque of Colored Cloth Useful Suggestions About the Latest Methods of Dressing the Hair. 'HE plain but Gn-do-sleole basque depicted In the large I illustration, and described by ii Mar Manton, is made of colored oloth and is a favorite style for morning shopping, traveling, out ing, cycling or general wear. The basque is glove-fitting, having the usual seams and double bust darts that adjust it closely to the waist line, the shaping below producing the fashion able rippled eflect at the lower edge. The fronts are closed in centre with buttons and buttonholes, the upper edges being reversed in small lapels that are faced with the material and meet the rolling collar in notohes. The stylish gigot sleeves are shaped by single seams, tho gathers at the top being arranged over comfortable two seamed linings. The wrists sre plain ly completed, all free edges being stitohod in tailor stylo. Basques in tnts style can be made of cheviot, tweed, mohair, homespun, serge, cloth or any plain or fancy mixod woolen. The quantity of material forty-four inohes wide required to make this basque for a lady having a thirty-six inch bust measure is two and one-half yards. LATEST STYLES IN HAHIDnESTINO. Word comes from London that Eng lish girls are all hiding thoir ears un der a ;waving mass of soft hair. Whether their bsir is dressed high or low, in a fluffy bang or a severy pom padour, it is drawn loosely over the ears, either in undulatiug waves or small puffs. This style of dressing the hair is becoming to few faoes as it bns a tendency to make n long faoe look longer and a round faoe fuller. The New York Sun, from whioh the illus trations were takeu, snggests that now that so ninoh latitude is allowed in fashionable bairdressing, and indi viduality is permitted to have full sway, it ought not to be difficult for any woman to arrange her hair so ns to bring out the best points of her faoe. A fault with many women is that they blindly follow the most favored mode of arranging the hair, without tho least regard of the style most suitable to their own oast of features. The best gownod and most attractive woncon are invariably those wno atndy tnolr own individuality and make the most of their strongest points, A pretty evening coiffure hss a few curls on the forehead to soften the severe lines of the face. The heir is turned baok in loose waves and ar ranged in four twisted puffa, oue above THE LATEST the other. Two ornaments are used on one side. A simple aud boooming arrangement when the hair can be worn parted is to wave it at the sides and catch it back io the form of a figure eight A jeweled comb is worn on the crown of the head and two lit tle combs to match are plaoed at eauh side. Tho new pompadour Is radically VPQ-IE L.BARQUE. different from the pompadour which the American Women are nowwearing. Instead of the hair being drawn straight back from the forehead, it is first waved and then brushed baok. The waves are so deep and undulating that they have almost the eflect of small puffs. This wavy hair at the aides is drawn over the ears in a loose careless fashion. It is much pnffed out, owing to the presence of the small oushion beneath and alsojto the assis tance of the pompadour comb nt the baok. Ultra fashionable young women have these small cushions delicately perfumed. A becoming feature of this new pompadour coiffure consists of tbo curls which rest on the fore head. Thoy form a bewitohingly careless bang, and so mako theooidure possible to the woman with a deep in tellectual brow. This coiffure, whioh is a pompadour, and yet is soft and graceful rather than eovere, fills a long felt want. It also shows the bang which will be high in favor this fall and winter. Whether tho hair is drawn over the ears or not, the special characteristics of all the new fall coif fures is the broad eCfeot. A profusion of puffs will also be worn. Tho baok dressing of the hair in the most up-to-date coiffures is a mass of puffrf. But the new pnfls have lost much of their conventionalism. They are now more carelossly and loosely rolled, ani are also smaller than in other years. The Marie Antoinette curls are still the fashion, though they will not be worn as much as last reason. ODDITIES IS RUrPJ. Odd ruches and ruffs are made of most costly materials. Priceless lace, ostrich plumes and artificial flowers are combined in a (anoiful and effec tive fashion and make a dainty bit of trimming to gowns that would other wise seem too plain and ineffective. Then, too, with low out evening gowns these rnohes are most conven lent, as thoy give quite a little warmth and shield the neck from drmghts and cold. Clever women who have COIFFURES. the talent of looking well dressed on a small iooome always make a point of these acoceasorios of dress, con tending that they make a cheap gown look like an expensive one, and alio show that the wearer keeps np to date in the darnty trilles whioh fashion de lights in ordering bee 'lowers to boy. FLUTED MUSLIN RUFF. When the mercury's a sprinter 'Twill cool you If you try , To remember how Inst winter Marin the conl-pile fly. Chicago Itecord. "Who was best man nt the wedding?" "Tho bride's father, If cheerfulness ' counts for anything." I'uck. Jnglets Who Invented work, Bill? Itaglets I dou't know, but be ought to -have stayed nnd finished It. Truth. Doctor, my wife lias Insomnia lies nwnke most of the night. Wlint shall I do for her?" "Oct homo earlier." Life. Does your husband upend much at the races?" "No. Oeorgo doesn't draw a very large salary." Town Top ics. lie Let's kiss and mnko up. She lf you kissed me, I'd have to mnko up nil over again, sure enough. New York Press. Mrs. Sequel I understand your hus band enn't meet bis creditors. Mrs. Equal I don't believe be wants to, es pecially. Truth. Customer I would like to hnve a nice gown to wear around the bouse. Sales manSize of tbo house, plcnac? Phil adelphia Record. Dyer Colonel Kalntuek hasn't laugh ed in years. Duel1 Why? Dyer Some one told lilm bis laugh sounded like rippling water. Town Topics. , "Onlnsliy Is n follow who under stands economy." "That's what! ho has just had n comimslte portrait made of his three other wives." I'uck. Block niches do not bring happi ness, my eon. uiupp citner uocs poverty. And rlc-lios do not prevent happiness, nnd poverty does. Truth. She The Bllllngtons liavo an eight- pound boy, nnd I suppose we ought to send n gift of some sort. He Why not send BUllngton a pedometer? Puck. Nodd I've got to raise one hundred dollars this week. Todd Is It a case of necessity? Nodd I should say so. My wlfo will come back If I don t. Truth. Miss Oothnm It must be awful to be burled alive! Miss Ponn (thoughtfully) Well, I dou't know. I have spent all my life In Philadelphia. Soniervllle Journal. "Clarlbel" Is respectfully Informed that milk does not come from milk weed, and that pies nre not plucked ready grown from the pie plant. Bos ton Transcript. Gertie Where do you get shaved, Freddie? Kredillc On tho face ha! ha! Gertie Pardon me, Freddie; I mean where do you get shared on the face? Roxbury Gazette. Richard What make you so stirs that sho will marry you? Harry Welt, . you see, her mother nnd I have engen dered a mortal hatred of each other. Boston Transcript. "Well, old man, I've spent every cent of money I have In the world on mj doctor." "Does he know It?" "I guesi he does. Ho has pronounced mo a wet man." Hurralo courier. Mrs. Kldd Thore, now, thank good ness! I'vp sung tho baby to sleep. Mr. Kldd Poor little chap! When he Is 2.7 he won't dare to go to sleep over a woman's singing. Truth. She For my part I would never for give a young man who would kiss a girl against her will. He Nor I; but do you suppose a young man really evei did? Somervlllo Journal. Tip A lawyer's highest aim should bo to keep his clients out of law. Flip- True; but the trouble Is so many of them aro content to take a hummel vlow of tho matter. Truth. "Tho butcher offered me his hand tills morning," said the hired girl. "In deed?" "Yes'm. He tried to sell It to me with the steak, but I made' him take It off the scales." Cincinnati En quirer. "What made you return from Eng land so soon?" "The Prince of Wale manifested a disposition to become chummy with me," replied the wealthy but eminently sensible American. ruck. "Your daughter, sir, la an angel." "Maybe; but after you've been married awhile you'll find she wants considera bly more clothes than angels are ac customed to wearing." Philadelphia American. "What ore your politics, my man?" n,iked the portly visitor of the prisonel behind the bars nt the penitentiary, "Well," replied tho latter, hesitatingly, "I haven't come out for anybody yet." Buffalo Times. "Don't you get awfully tlreit dolnq nothing all tho time?" asUed the young man who thoujht himself Interested la sociology. "Mister," answered Perry Patettle, "I git so tired doln' nothln' dat I can't do nothlu' else." Cincin nati Enquirer. ' Mrs. Hendricks (proudly wnlklng out of the sewing room) Well, Perry, how do you like my bloomers? Mr. Hen dricks Oh, they da very well; but, dear me, bow much older than usual they make you look." On the following da; a neat package, Intended for tbo far away heathen, was forwarded from the Hendricks home. Cleveland Lender.
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