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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-25

family. But for a single incident accom-
panying the introduction OF the tricycle. it
would have been a very popular machine
with the ladies long ago. That incident was
the fact that the first lady to use a tricycle.
in Washington was one whose name has been
good deal before the public within the past
eighteen months as candidate for the highest
office in the gift OF the people. Mrs. Lock
wood is a talented woman, but she does not
pride herself either upon her beauty or the
size of her feet: and as the tricycle. calls at
tentiOn to both, her adoption OF il did not
tend to add to its popularity with the observ-
ing representatives of the gentler sex. The
number and variety of the people who use
bicycles and tricycles in Washington is quite
astonishing. There is Tricycle. Club which
includes among its members a minister and
his wife, an Assistant Secretary of
State and number of other officials OF
prominence. There are several physicians
who have recently purchased wheels on
which to visit their patients. AT the Capt.
tol, there is a tricycle. kept for the use OF
messenger who flies back and forth between
the POstotfce and the Capitol offices. At the
telegraph offices bicycles are kept for the use
of messengers, and you may see the little fell
lows, mounted on their wheels, flying about
the city day and night, delivering messages
to the nearest and most distant points. The
District Messenger Service employs wheels
and sends its boys flying in every direction
upon them. Among the newspaper CORE
spOndents there are numbers, who, following
the example set by your correspondent years
ago. are now using the wheel" both for bust
ness and pleasure, one of the number having
ridden over large share OF Great Britain
and France during the past summer, upon
his vacation. Among the business men there
are large numbers of both bicycles and tri-
cycles used; while among gentlemen and la
dies who desire amusement and exercise the
wheel is gaining popularity every day.
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or three wheels, and physicians attending to
their professional calls, by the aid of these
vehicles. The most interesting feature of the
late appearances in the tricycling world is
the result OF efforts to make a family ma
chine. There are great numbers OF these,
and the variety is nearly as great as the rum
Der. Everywhere you go you see them.
Sometimes the ladies are riding alone upon
them; sometimes they are accompanied by
gentlemen; sometimes there are two seats
side by side between the wheels, which are
connected with long axle; sometimes the
seats are arranged tandem fashion, in
which case the lady usually occupies the front
seat and the gentleman the rear each doing
his or her share of the work of prOPelling
the machine. So common have these ma
chimes now become that their appearance
exeites no remark. You may see them on
the avenue or hurrying about the streets
almost any day, and at almost any
hour OF the day. Ladies who use
them are enthusiastic in their behalf
They did find them not only an agreeable
method of travelling about the city, but act
ually beneficial in their effect upon the
health. A prominent gentleman of this
city, who has been using bicycle in his bus
ness for several years, said to your cores
pondent recently that he had some months
ago purchased a tricycle. for his wife, who
had suffered partial stroke Of paralysis. So
serious was her case that the doctors attend
ing her had announced their opinions that
she would never be able to walk again. Not
withstanding this, the husband, knowing the
value of vehicles of this character, purchased
the tricycle. and encouraged her to use il;
and within few months She had so far re-
gained the use Of her faculties as to be able
TO walk readily and propel herself rapidly
about the streets upon the bicycle.
Now. you may see the husband and
wife almost any day riding about
the city on a tandem" tricycle.
such as is shown in the accompanying cut,
both in apparently good health and happy
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-25

The German traveller, DR.. Gerhard Rohlfs,
contends that it is unhealthy to wear wool
len clothing in the tropics. 1t is well known,
he says, that nearly all animals in Europe
have thicker coat in winter than in sum-
mer But in Tuat. Kufra, and other hot
from colder climates lose their wool in the
course of year, and their skins are then
thinly covered with hair. The lion, who at
the Cape and Northern Africa has long and
thick name, loses his name entirely in Cen
trail Africa. These facts, argues DIR. Rohlfs,
prove that there must be some urgent cause
for depriving animals of their woollen coats
in the tropics, as in other places the same
animals have for thousands of years been
covered with wool, both in winter and in
summer: and they give a lesson to man
which he would do well to follow.
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are evidences OF great effort to construct
safety machines. With the ordinary BIZ
cycle the rider sits nearly over the center of
his large weel. so that if in riding his wheel
strikes any obstruction, or drops into d de-
preston, the momentum and weight of his
body carries him on forward, and he takes
what is technically known as a header
coming down over the front wheel and strik-
ing perhaps on his hands, perhaps on his
head. 1t is TO prevent this difficulty that
such variety of machines has been invented,
Probably the largest number OF these safety
machines now used in Washington are of
the pattern shown in the accompanying cut,
with the small wheel in front. With this
machine the rider sits, il will lie seen. pretty
nearly over the center of his large wheel;
but, having the small wheel in front, the
chances of taking headers are very much les
sened. Sometimes even with this machine,
however, there are fails, and very serious
ones Another class of machines have levers
so arranged that the rider sits much farther
back than the center of his large wheel and
by the use of double levers gets the same
motion that is had in the ordinary machine.
Another class OF bicycles used very much
here are those with extremely small wheels
so small that the rider may almost touch the
ground with his feet. Some of these are
''geared' so that each motion of the foot
propels the wheel full revolu-
ton instead of malt revolution,
as in the ordinary case. 1t would be safe to
assert that there are among the thousand or
twelve hundred bicycles in use in Washing
ton twenty, perhaps thirty different kinds Of
machines, the large majority of the new in
ventions having been made with the sole
idea of adding TO the safety of the rider.
Within the past year tricycles have gained
greatly in favor. Two years ago you seldom
saw one. a year ago they began to come
into more general use and now YOU see
10 - Il IL
see them ridden for pleasure and exercise.
but by business men for business purposes,
and by ladies for exercise and recreation.
They are even used, too, by children. and it
is not an uncommon thing to see misses of
ten or twelve and masters OF similar age
riding to and from school upon tricycles or
bicycles. Young ladies and gentlemen glide
over the streets of the city or along the WELL
kept roads of the District. business men hur
rying up and down the avenue on two
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Our Illustrated Weekly Letter From the
National Capital.
a Chapter on All Sorts OF "CycIss'-The
Paradise of WheeImen-Hun-
dreds of Miles of Level
Streets.

WASHINGTON, Nov. Washington sports
some very queer vehicles in the way OF cabs, as
intimated in this correspondence week ago.
She has quite as curious ones, however, in the
way of bicycles and tricyeles. Indeed, the
list might be extended at either end, and
you might say unacycles, bicycles, tricycles
and quadracycles, so great is the number
and variety of these sort of vehicles used in
this city. Washington is often spoken of
a the paradise of wheelmen." And so it
is. The miles Of smooth streets, as level and
smooth as a floor, extend, forty, fifty and
perhaps hundred miles If you follow them
street by street and block by block, and
while the country roads surrounding the city
are especially fitted for the "silent steed," go
where you will in Washington or vicinity
you are sure TO meet the wheelmen and
wheelwOmen, for there are numerous repre-
sentatives of the gentler sex who are as en-
thusiastic and ardent devotees of the
wheel as the most earnest bicyclist on
record. Tricycling in fact has become even
more popular than bicycling; and the curl
Gus vehicles which are making their appear
ance on the streets of Washington, and car
rying sometimes the entire family, add
novel and interesting feature to the already
varied line of pedO-motors in Washington.
In fact il Is the appearance of some of these
CuriOusly arranged machines that has sug
gested this article.
IT is little over a dozen years since the first
bicycles made their appearance in Washing
ton. Now there hundreds and hundreds of
them. According to the best estimate your
correspondent can obtain the number of BIZ
cycles and tricycles of all sorts probebly runs
up to about 1,500. The great variety OF these
vehicles is something astonishing to the
average observer. Among the bicycles there
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-25
GRIEF MASTERED.v
BIZ By D. HOUSE.

brarer W
And then saw with White your face impearled,
But could not see your angel wings unfurled;
Aud now, where moaning autumn night-winds
rave,
lie grief-masteFed on your hiding grave;
And, though life's voices all about are swirled,
Your sOftest whisper will out-voiee the world
Ii ii but give the answer that crave.
Dear heart, if with burglsrious hand clutch
And break the barring lock tina; may know
Again your angel hands soft tender touch
viii not forgiveness from that pity flow
Which once forgave her who had loved SO much
Because love you SOL love you sos'
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symptoms.

Slight pain in the side. the skin and eyes
assume thick yellow coat, digestion is i'm
paired. an unpleasant sinking sensation at
the pit of the stomach is experienced the
bowels are irregular, the mind fretful, the
memory weakened, sometimes slight cough
GOODNESS of the hands and feet, sometimes
loss of appetite and at others unnatural
craving for food dizziness of the head, blur
ring before the eyes, depressed spirits, bad
breath, feeling of uncertainty OF having lett
something undone but can't till what il is.
Take Simmons Liver Regulator il will re-
move al these feelings and make yQR wei,
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again carry New York with the Tribune as
their special organ. This is cruel in Mr..
Blaine. The Tribune was the only paper in
New York City that supported Blaine for
the Presidency.
The Fort Wayne Sentinel suggests that
John Logan settle down:
No one has mentioned John A Logan as
Presidential candidate since the New York
and Virginia Elections. Divested of a vain
ambition, it should be possible for Logan to
settle down and become a hard working and
useful member of the Senate.
The Goshen Democrat shows how the adj
ministration is reforming the civil service:
Secretary Manning has ordered the Door
keeper of the Treasury Department TO keep
tab" on the employees and see what time each
one gets to work in the morning A good
many of them are in the habit of ambling
leisurely around at 10 o'clock and after, and
the Secretary is bound to enforce little
more promptitude. There will be some ST.
lent grumbling in consequence, but the in
dolent and tardy will probably prefer TO hus-
tie around and tend to business rather than
quarrel with the reform spirit, but for which
they would have been turned out5Of office
when the administration changed hands.
1t has a value in the advance of future
science, says the Huntington Democrat;
The President has appointed mugwump,
Mr.. Saltenstall, Collector OF the Port OF Bos-
ton. Although disappointing to the Demo
Gratis OF Boston who recommended straight
out Democrat yet the appointment has its
/ advantages. Ii is always wise to preserve a
! few choice specimens of rare growths and q
mugwump will be decided curiosity in q
few years.
A peculiarly horrible crime is reported by
the Hancock Democrat:
George Harmon. a worthless character
shot and instantly killed Wesley Carpenter
! a haE.Titted seventeen year-old boy, peal
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pespise Not the Day of small Things.

Little things may help a man to rise-a
bent pin in an easy chair for instance. DIR.
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets are
small things pleasant to take, and they cure
sick headaches relieve torpid liyegs and do
wonders Being purely vegetable they can
not harm any one. AL druggists,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-25

An investigation of Sunday labor by Car
roll Wright shows that while the displace-
ment of rest by recreation has vastly in
creased in America, thus making work for
those concerned transit and other means of
pleasure. no fact can be produced 10 support
the statement that the mere toll for wealth
occupies any more time on Sunday than it
did century ago.
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Cot liz Right.

Shouting for Hill and Hendricks. with the cleo
ton three years of, is very poor consolation
Boston Traveller.
You are wrong. 1t is Hendricks and Hill,
not Hill and Hendricks. The rule of civil
service reform prescribes that promotion
shall be in the order of seniOrity-New York
sun
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-25

The Greeks devoured the flesh of tine
hedgehog. When it has been well fed it is
sweet and we'll favored, and the flesh is eat
EN- in many places in England and on the
Continent. An American gentleman who
partook of this dainty. stewed on the other
side, says it reminded him a good deal Of
quail, fH
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-07-17

lowed to the celebrants. In Central
China it is almost sacrilege to use music
1t . second marriage, 40 the sound is
universally believed to bring back the
phantom Of the departed spouse. Sec
ond marriages in that part of the EN-
pire are conducted very much like the
visits Of credulous folks to haunted
houses. In several well-authenicated
cases where the brass band was called
In at the second nuptials the indignant
ghost has been known to strangle both
offending parties.
1t is hardly fair to stop here, while
law and custom are as stated. They are
based merely upon the idea of love. The
duty and affection q wife owes her hus-
band even if dead are the cardinal ele-
ments in the social and legal plexus
VIII CHI tie her hand and foot. Tn s re-
cognit on of love goes even further. A
young girl who has lost her betrothed
or died Immediately after Their mar
Rage declares her intention to remain
celibate the rest of her life. This VOW
may be made before her parents. the
mag strate or the illage elders. Hence
forth she is regarded with the same
generation as sister of charity In ul-
ira Catholic lands. When she has kept
her VOW faithfully at the age of sixty.
the Emperor DEGREES the erection of a
triumphant arch near the place of her
birth and on its face memor al in
scription in her honor. fancy woman
IL the same in China as in the United
states rs the number of arches COM
structed to date is exceedingly small.
Wong Ching Foo. in Brooktyn IN
r. Eagle.
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PITH AND POINT.

The divorce courts ought tn h.
abolished. They encourage too many
men to be false to the Union.
"A fifty-dollar ring may not typify
the depth OF the love that presents III
but it may tell tale of terrible strain
upon the pocket that pays for it-FaU
Rirer Adrance.
If one have business across tho
water. it is all right, or if he goes for
improvement to mind or body; but this
going abroad merely for the sake of
Dragging about it is broad farce
Boston Post.
Feather bids having gone out Of
fashion, the economical fair ones utilize
the contents of their old mattresses by
piling them upoa their head gear. The
plumage of two well-filled ticks is quite
sufficient for the average honnet.-N
y. Mail.
"A well-dressed and pretty young
woman. who went about in New YORK
saying that she wanted to get married,
was promptly clapped into an insane
asylum. When a woman wants hus-
band and does not continually declare
she would not touch horrid man with
q tcn-foot pole. it is sure sign of in.
sanity.--Philadelphia Call.
Woman is herself creature of in.
tuition. as everybody will admit; but
that's no reason why she should sally
out on the street with thick drab vel
drawn over her face away down to
her chin. and then expect every male
being of her acquaintance she meets to
recognize her half a block AWAY
SoD,ercille journal
How q physician lost a patient:
Doctor" said an old granger to .
smart, young physician. '.what would
you do for a third-day chills when
quinine has no more effect than SO
much clear water?' ..In the first
place" answered the doctor, with q
dry smile. II would call in a good
physician" THANK you," said the
granger, rising to go. Il will do -
you say. l reckon LII find DR.. Smith
in his Office. Good-day." San Fran-
cisco Chronicle.
.-'I know" said the agent, ..that
the house isn't in very good condition.
and that the location isn't the best. but
you'll have splendid neighbors here. y
Indeed. .sYes'm. Best neighbors
in the world; kind and generous. For
the first six months you'll be able to
borrow anything from them. from
fat-iron to tea and sugar. Why. the
last tenant here borrowed the cooking
stove of the people next door, and used
it so long that the folks went and
bought another for their own use. Oh.
it's the best neighborhood you could
get into. "-Boston Courier
Mistress Ito applicant for service)
How MANY nights out week?"
Applicant-"None, mum. Oh niver
sthir out" Mistress-.Will you have
many friends to see your" Applicant
Mot wan. mum Oh have NO friendsa''r.
NJ stress-..What wages will you ex-
pect?" Applicant-.Oi'll lave that to
We, num-" Mistress-"What kind OF
homework are you willing forp'' APP
plicant-.'O'm willin' to wash an airun
an cook an scrub an clane windysAns
wait on table an take care av chifder
an carry N coal an bu Id faires''-
Here loud ringing was heard at the
door and the keeper of an asylum
rushed in and secured the lunatic.) j.
Lossdoa Pusch-
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Doar 1ittIe daisy, down IN the graa
smiling MP at me ~ paeos
~ uoeen, viii you tel
Whether Somebody loves me wclls
Dear littlc daisy, lend me your art,
] keep Z secret close In my heart
1&nn0 6n0N h0y4eDf0 be;
Whisper u low, only 20 me.
Nr1n be ennes or does he tarrye
szn1t 70 COURT Or Ii Il to marryf
VIII h take my heart forever1
or will he forsake and come back nevefy
Dear Iittle daisy, II you a~osc
That he's untrue, oh, tell mo 80.
Alas, alass IL can mot be;
Wbatcver you say ksoe he loves me.
Your art % fAloo. TN ne'er believe
That one love could 20 deceive;
III toss you away to the wind that blows
And ask again 81 . daisy rho knosce.
-Demoresfs Nonfhlv.
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THE UPPER ENeADINE.
A Noted Health Resort In One Of the
Swiss yalleys-


Swiss valleys.
In the east of Switzerland, among
the highlands Of the Grisons, lies :
long, broad valley, which although out
of tho track Of the majority Of tourists,
is visited in summer by some thousands
Of English people in search Of health
or pleasure. This upper Valley Of the
Inn. or Engadine. can also boast Of )
winter season during which St. Moritz
is the home alike Of per IONS suffering
from pulmonary complaints, nervous
diseases, and other disorders. and Of
those who come for the skating and
tobogganning. So long ago 6 the
winter of 1867 SO an entry occurs IN the
visitors book at the Kuhn Hotel, re-
cording the advantages which the
writer, suffering from disease of the
lungs, had experienced from . i've
months so;ourn there. Similar testi-
mony was furnished by persons staying
at St Moritz during the next two sea-
sons. After this. notwithstanding such
favorable witness to its curative capa-
bilities. and the increasing reputation
Of Davos as resort for consumptive
patients. no one remained 1t St Moritx
during the winter months until 1876. This
LAS owing partly to the want Of local
eatespr.se-in advertising il Is : health
resort partly 10 want Of preparation 81
the shApeof stoves and double wiudoWa
TO enabfo Individuals to eontinue there
during the cold season. Since 1874
however. the number Of winter guests
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TEHERAN.
Some Interesting Information Concerning
the Persian Capital.

Some Interesting Information Concerning
the Persian Capital.
Teheran, the capital of Persia, is
place of antiquity. II was Aga Ma
hommed Khan. the founder of the pres
emit dynasty. who first adopted it about
. century ago. A mud wall surrounds
the city, but it would be mistake to
say that the place is fortified. in the
modern sense of that word. The wall
is distinctly pre-Vauban in its tracing.
As q police boundary. or something Of
that sort it may serve some purpose.
but as defense to the city, if it were
attacked BY modern army, it would
be useless. The supply of water is
brought into the town by what the
Persians call kanauts. This is the same
as the kareez of Afghanistan. These
are tunnels simply cut through the soil,
in parts at some depth, and by this
means water is found where all IS dry
above. and brought for large distances
to irrigate fields. Holes have to be
made at regular distances to bring up
the earth in excavating these kanauts.
and their direction can be traced
across the country from the
mound round the hole. This
mode Of irrigation exists all the
way from this place to the Khyber.
The making of these tunnels is q regu-
lar trade. and there are wise men who
have . reputation for being able to find
underground source from which the
supply of water is obtained. Some
large cxtents of ground in Persia would
Be ; desert were it not for these kan
1uok Ih0 supply q WDf1R. drought
into TeherAn by them is large. and the
quality il sad to be good. The bazaars
are Arched over with sun-dried bricks,
which Is the usual building material
hereabouts. The object of this is to
keep out the sun. Tins makes them
dark. but it is highly picturesque. In
some places they are painted with fig-
uzus and ornaments. and at one place.
where two lines of bazaars cross, the
seat Of the Kadi was pointed out. with
: cell below for prisoners. Here cases
are tried before the public, and
punishment Is inflicted-a very
Eastern and primitive mode OF
administering justice. At one part Of
the bazaar We noticed nothing but shoe
makers. Passing them we found moth
ing but hats being made; 8 little dis
lance further it was tailors. their brass
workers. This group ng of each trade
has many advantages, and it is not so
many years since it was common in
some towns at home. Kabob shops. or
eating houses, and tea-houses are to be
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