The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-03-20

undergo yexatious delays to- take cross
town lines, while you are shivering in the
cold, or drenched by the rain
Again, hacks are mot only expensive,
but extravagant, andsif you.keep a horse,
the expenditure attendant Is enormous,
Besides d good horse should not be risked
over a slippery pavement like Broadway,
and a goodfor- nothing horse is not worth
his keep, and no pleasure to drive. M
But the two.wheeled velocipede is the
animal which is TO Bupercedel everything
else, It costs but little tot purchase, and
still less to keep. II does not, like one
Zedechias mentioned by an old historian,
eat cartloads Of hay, with carts, horses
and drivers as a relish, Just to amuse Louis
le Debonnaire, or any other sovereign. 1t
does not, like Jeshurun, wax fat and kick.
1t is easy TO handles Itnever Hraresup.n
It won't bite. 1t needs no check.rein or
halter, or any unnatural restraint It Is
light and little let alone, it will lean Low.
ingly against the nearest support. It
never flies off at q tangent unless badly
managed, and under no circumstances
will il shy at anything. I'll is not ludibri,
GUS, like the young mule, nor does it, like
the Morgan colt, cut up in ridiodlously
corybantic manner, nor does 1t In
other ways disgrace the memory
of its inventor. In Its movements 1t
is all grace. Its one gait is 50 uniform and
easy and beautiful to look at, and simple
to analyze, that it would be shame to
speak Of a trot in the same breath When
its driver driveth furiously, even as did
Jehu, the son. of Nimshi, then there may
be danger TO him who obstructs the way,
and will not make room for the flying
steed. But otherwise not When we have
nationalized the stranger, do not let us for
get his origin, but where many smooth
roads meet, erect to his memory, and in
honor of the inventor, a brave monument
like that which surmounts the grave of
him who first us gave pickles, and taught
the world how to cure and barrel the bony
herring. Let it not be said that the maker
of the first bicycle went unrewarded by
the descendants of that posterity who for
got Ctesibius, the FIRST organ builder, or
him who introduced the gridiron, nor yet
those other anonymous benefactors to
whom we owe the benefits and blessings
derived from the use of door-knobs and
buttons. -4.rsg Ir...
Since the time Of Bellerophon, the
first equestrian, Of Pelethronius, the in.
Ventor Of the bride and saddle, of Eric
thonius, who drove the first team I'd
wagon since Thessaly and -Epirus and
Mycenas began to be known for theil
blooded stock; since the days when Pro
teus drove his twolegged horses, and the
Lapithe spurred their bitted team oYei
the plains of Thessaly; from the TINT
since the first horse which Neptune called
from the earth with a tap, of his trident
there has been no racer or hack to mattel
the Veloce, for elegance, grace. docility
ahd speed It may not be as intelligen
as Bonner's Dexter, or as many Of tht
earnivorous steeds whose appetite fo
human flesh brought Diomedes to grief !
may not possess that talent which elevated
Calgula's faVorite horse to the consulship
but with proper management and ade
quate encouragement, itmay become quit
as useful to the world as the Thracial
horse admired by Virgil, or the beas
which tat for the Egyptian artists mode
of pride, or that historic monster Whicl
concealed the enemies of Troy, OF eve
as Charlemagne's cob, whose hoof rt
opened TO the world the long hiddei
springs Of Aachen, the Germanic Gettyl
burg-1H6 Pel0ctpeCtSt.