The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-01-09

tuted. It is suggested, too, that lifeboat
crews, on thinly populated coasts, should |
be provided with velocipedes, by means OF
which more rapid assembling Of them in |
time of need might be effected; and, |
moreover, that gdrdeS chGmpstres and
country doctors and cures, who cannot
afford the expense of horse, should
travel about on the new vehicles, which,
by the way, have already penetrated to
the provinces, for seaside loungers,
mounted on them, were to be
seen at all the Norman and Breton
watering places, and on the shores
Of the Mediterranean, coursipg
along the coast. Eccentric sportsmen, too,
chase their game with veloeipedes artists
use them to 60 on sketching tours, and
photographers employ them on distant ex-
peditions. Guests at country chateduT or
ganize races with velocipedes among
themselves and, in the recent election
contest in the department of the Var, On
its being discovered that the government
had hired all the public vehicles In Toulon
for the day Of the election, the partisans of
the opposition candidate procured a sup.
ply OF velocipedes, on which the liberal
electors dashed to the polls. Dramatists
introduce velocipedes into their pieces
and at several Partisan theatres they play
prominent part In some Of the more
striking scenes. Caricattrists, however,
have turned them most to account, for
every week brings forth some pictorial
skit, in which they occupy the first place.
The toy dealers, too, have not been idle,
for you cannot pass along the Boulevards
without getting your feet entangled in
toy velocipede, mountlng large red Ian
tern-at preient prohibited emblem in
! Paris--and with the rider working his
arms and legs up and down, like an Ordi-
nary scaTamouche, which some enterpris-
ing hawker, the better to display its at
fractions, has set going along the asphalte
pavement.
Ordinary two-wheel velocipedes range
IN francs, according to the completeness
of their fittings. VtlOcipede8 deluTs mount
up almost to any sum Three-wheeled
machines are priced at from one hundred
and sixty to two hundred and fifty francs,
i while smaller sizes, for children, can be
purchased for fifty francs The some
what numerous etCetefds, coiiipTise the
requisite instruments in the event the ma.
chine gets out of order on journey, with
lantern, a grease-boX, india-rubber
cushions for the iron bar in front of the
machine, on which the legs are generally
allowed to rest when not in action, and
an indicator, to mark the distance travelled
The speed attained by the swifter kind
Of veloCipedes averages from twelve to
thifteen miles an hour adopts find nc
difficulty whatever in accomplishing fully
nffvr y,of1aa yryffb1r hnt1ru with
alighting frpm their vehicles A couple
of amateurs, making q tour through 8
part of France, challenged each othel
as to which could perform the creates
distance within four.and twenty hours
} One gave in after having accomplished
| eighty-seven miles the other wen
{ on an additional six and thirty miles, max
ing one hundred and twenty-five
= miles in all. On the tWenty-frst of las
} September, a party of nine quilted Rouel
! early IN the morning, mounted upol
e velocipedes, and arrived in Paris in tim
Q for dinner the same evening, having pei
. formed the distance of eighty five milei
g exclusive of stoppages, at rate Of spec
f averaging between ten and eleven mile
e an hour 1t should be understood tina
in impelling velocipede, the limbs 81
:. not constantly in motion, as on leVt
n ground, when the impetus is at the aVeraq
J. rate, or when the machine is descendin
t. an incline, the feet may be removed frol
g the pedals, and the legs be placed on IL
n bar fixed in front of the velocipede for th
f purpose A slight impulsion given to IL
d vehicle, from time to time, suf1ices to kee
e up the speed. The ascent of any incliI
le greater than one in twenty-five, is said
Is be impracticable When the rider, thef
IL fore, encounters hill of more than ave
e. age steepness, he has to dismount and let
70 his velocipede with his hand, which v
It, are told he can do with almost the san
e, ease as he can carry an ordinary Walkin
b, stick.-PdriS Letter.