The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-08-01

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ers OF this paper TO know Il, but ! have
been, during the past three weeks, learn
ing TO ride the bicycle without q master,
/ do.it in the evening, in the barn on
my estate on Staten Island, That Il
why the barn Is rsputsd to be haunted,
Strange sounds are said to emit them'
selves from this barn and loud thulnps
also walls OF the damned, Boys who
used to 60 there and shoot cats now q
elsewhere. They cannot bear TO Wrestle
with the supernatural or listen 10 the
wall Of a damned soul, they say,
Igot a very large wheel, because !
run somewhat to legs and could propel
an enormous vehicle, Il could once
maintain good poise, l have forgotten
what size the wheel is, It strikes me
that II is twenty-five inches in diameter,
| mean the large wheel, OF course, The
smaller wheel Ia less large, This small
wheel Is used mainly for tipping up and
buzzing in the. air when the machine
goes over, which is quite often,
have a stage leg which looks well be-
hind the iootlights, but Is most too bone
less TO work well on q bicycle. Itdroops
too much, So does the other, When !
get to thinking about the p%ropulsiVe
power, / forget the helm, and when !
once more allow my mind 10 revert 70
the helm, ] become ratified aud fall of In
an oblique manner. L.
first began TO ride the blcycle=about
a year ago, not In public, but as Q means
OF personal relaxation, II was a smaller
instrument than the one I have now,
but good. II was In every way equal 70
this one, and had a little flat oil can and
an alarm on the withers, which could
be rung In case | should be crossings
railroad at night and desired the engl'
neer Of an approaching train to save
himself by instant flight.
This bicycle l gave TO the physician
who set my leg for me. He did 1t 80
well that l gave him the instrument, to-
gether with the wrench ! had received
while falling from 1t, He loans II 10 the
boys OF his neighborhood and Is build.
ing up q good practice In compound and
comminuted fractures, hernias and con-
cussions.
Last year hc tried II himself, one
evening at the twilight hour. He rode
down Mr.. Gryme's celebrated hill, and
killed a child and o COW. He had for.
gotten how to play on the brake. He
offered to replace the child with one
whose mother he had treated profess
sionally up to the hour Of her death.
But he could not manage 1t that way.
So he settled for the COW, and now
keeps the bicycle mainly TO loan TO
boys who otherwise might climb his
fruit trels.
My new machine looks WE'LL: 1t is
what We wheelmen call q full niCkle ma.
chine. have had my photograph taken
with 1t. It is q beautiful picture. You
can easily tell which Is the bicycle. The
portrait was made by o friend OF mine
who has a homeopathic photograph out
1t. He Is quite clever with 1t. lie Is a
Wall street operator, His father was so
before him. His father operated In Wall
street before anybody else. He used TO
sprinkle Wall street. My friend does
not make his living autobiography. BE
makes his money honestly by specula-
ton, but desires, OF course, TO have some
means OF obtaining a livelihood In case
OF reverses. So he Is taking pictures by
the dry plate process. 7.
He got a good picture Of my wheel and
myself the other day. / wore my wheel
mans uniform. ! bought my uniform
before I got the wheel, and looked so
well in It that | concluded to buy my
self a bicycle and learn 10 ride upon II.
belongto a club, but do not figure In
II very much, excerpts at tho festive board,
where ] frequently speak or preside. l
also belong to an athletic club, which
has made me quite robust. Formerly l
had very poor health but Of latterly l
am almost too healthy. ! go To the eve.
ming sessions OF my athletic club, and
when l 60 home at night l feel real
hopeful.
bicycling Is a noble sport. Some day
I am going to 80 around the world and
take my wheel with Inc In a shawl strap.
Bicycling tones up the muscles, en-
larges the lung area and teaches one
sell reliance. II / could only ride on my
bicycle l am confident that 1t would BEN
eft me. It certainly benefits the bicycle
to ride on me, and It Is q mighty poor
rule that will not work both ways.
Our wheel club takes q spin, as we
call II, every week TO some remote point,
eating lunch at the further point, and
then returning in the gathering gloom.
/ 90 sometimes, in q hanson cab, and
take part in the lunch,
am a great admirer Of manly sports,
and used frequently TO jar the back
teeth Of a sandbag Of an evening, or
climb q horizontal bar and gently fall of
again. l was expelled from my first
athletic club because l used TO fall on
the mattress in the early part Of the
evening and remain there until time to
go home, thereby preventing other
athletes from practiclng on the mattress.
My machine has no cog wheels or
chain attachments. II Is the old fashion.
ed, hump shouldered bicycle, with steel
running gears. This fall / am going fox
hunting on 1t II ] can.
IHwung the Indian clubs last year.
It benefited me q great deal. Formerly
| had operated q scroll saw and had
made q lot OF fayance and things, among
which were a hollywood clock, with q
wealth OF holes in II, and other little
articles OF Vertu, including a bAs relief
bass wood-of myself. In swinging the
clubs l obliterated these things, es-
peCIally the clock; and so | regard the
Indian club as one OF the most beneficial
things, In proper hands, Of which We are
at present informed. l also have q set
Of dumb bells, which use TO keep the
door open in summer time, THIS giving
a free circulation OF fresh air. In this
way the dumb bell Isl great boon.
II could also be pleasantly and profta'
bly, placed inthe church towers through.
out our land, thus adding 10 our general
health by taking the place Of the more
clamoroIs bell OF the dead past. The
church bell, like the tin dinner horn
has outliyed It's usefulness, and ! feat
that the man who has 10 be reminded,
tby hgylng the whole top OF his head
lifted of, that u slime to pray will have
to he assisted out Of his grave On. fespr
rection day by meahs Of explosives
which will cost more than tue result will
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