Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-03-19

undergo vexatious delays 10 take cross
town lines, while you are shivering In the
cold, or drenched by the rain
Again, hacks are not only expensive,
but extrayagant, and If you keep horse,
the expenditure attendant Is enormous
Besides 3 good horse should not be risked
over a slippery pavement like Broadway,
and good d-for-nothing horse is not worth
his keep, and no pleasure 70 drive.
But the two.wheeled velocipede is the
animal which is to supercede everything
else. 1t costs but little to purchase, and
still less to keep. 1t does not, like one
Zedechias mentioned by an old historian
eat cart.loads of hay, with carts, horses
and drivers as relish, just TO amuse Louis
lie Debonnaire, or any other sovereign. 1t
does not, like Jeshurun, wax fat and kick.
Il is easy to handle. It never "rares up"
1t won't bite. 1t needs no check rein or
halter, or any unnatural restraint 1t is
light and little let alone, twill leanlov-
1ngly against the nearest support. II
never flies off at a tangent unless badly
managed, and under no circumstances
will II shy at anything. II is not ludibri.
GUS, like the young mule, nor does It, like
the Morgan colt, cut up in ridiculously
corybantic manner, nor does II in
other ways disgrace the memory
of its inventor. In its movements Il
is all grace. It's one gait is 80 uniform and
easy and beautiful to look at, and simple
to anslyze, that it would be shame to
speak of trot in the same breath. When
its driver driveth furiously, even as did
Jehu, the son of Nimshi, then there NAV
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, brave monument
like that which surmounts the grave of
him who first us gave uspickles, 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 Otesibius, the first organ builder, or
him who introduced the gridiron, nor yet
those other anonymous benehctors to
whom we owe the benefits and blessings
derived from the use of door knobs and
buttons.
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 to
wagon; siace Thessaly and Epirus and
Mycenas began to be known for their
blooded stock; since the days when Pro-
teus drove his two legged horses, and the
Lapith9 spurred their bitted team over
the plains Of Thessaly; from the time
since the first horse which Neptune called
from the earth with tap of his trident,
there has been no racer or hack to match
the Veloce, for elegance, grace, doeility
ahd speed. 1t may not be as intelligent
as Bonner's Dexter, or as many of the
carnivorous steeds whose appetite for
human flesh brought Diomedes to grief 1t
may not possess that talent which elevated
Caligulas favorite horse to the consulship,
but with proper management and ade-
quate encouragement, it may become quite
as useful to the werld as-the ThSacian
horse admired by Virgil, or the beast
which sat for the Egyptian artists model
of pride, or that historic monster which
| concealed the enemies of Troy, or even
as Charlemagne's cob, whose hoof re-
opened to the world the long hidden
springs of Aschen, the Germanic Gettys.
burg.-Ihe FA0cipediSt.