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Title: The Wheel and cycling trade review
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Cycling Bicycles Cyclists
Publisher: New York : Wheel and Cycling Trade Review
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entimentswhen he printed them in his paper: The bi-cycle is increasing marriages. A million bi-cycles are, now in use in the country. Ayoung man now takes his wheel out for anairing instead of his girl. Of course girlshave the wheels, too, but bicycle sparkingstrikes us as being- a mighty poor substitutefor the old-fashioned kind, the old walnutsofa, the cloth-covered sofa, the spring-seatedsofa you hung on to so well. The old-stylebuggy-ride was good enough—that is, wasgood enough for us. THE WHEELS WORK. When a man is riding a wheel he is utiliz-ing his spare forces and making room fornew ones. Somebody, paraphrasing MatthewArnold, called a human life a stream of en-ergy, and the wheelman is keeping thisStream moving along natural courses. Possi-bly two generations hence it will be foundthat the wheel has done an incalculable workin pulling the human ra^e back to more nat-ural practices and customs. The fool-killer is taking a fall out ofgreat number of brakeless riders this year.
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That looks like a good road straight ahead ; guessIll just hit er up a bit! SONG OF THE SIGHING SOUGH. A new fad is gathering force in differentparts of country—the stringing of elasticbands from the top to the bottom tubes ofthe bicycle frame. When ridden the resulta noise varying with the speed from thesighing sough of a soulful swirl and thewhine of a sick tomcat to the inartistic touchof an aeolian harp. In Philadelphia, thechildish fad has become so general that thepolice have been ordered to suppress it, be-cause of its effect on skittish horses. In NewYork it is just making its appearance. THE FOOL AND HIS FOLLY. A police officer in Minnesota playfully triedto stop a wheelman, not to arrest him, butjust to show a friend how easy it was tostop a wheel. The rider did not stop whenordered to do so, and the limb of the lawthrew his club between the spokes of themachine. The bicycle was wrecked and thewheelman was thrown and badly injured.Now the officer is serving a jail sentence

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