The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-10-13
A SkyCycle,

The ingenious Yankee has come to
the front once more This time he is
a. Springfield, Massachusetts,, man,
and he has invented what he calls a.
a skycycle. This machine, as it's name
would imply, is designed to enable ad-
venturouss spirits to go bicycling above
the clouds. 1t consists of a. frame
work which is provided with sails,
and is described as a bird-shaped
plane, provided with a rudder at the
rear for steering and balancing, with
a propeller in front; by means of
which it is put and kept in motion.
The rudder is controlled by handle
bar, which the rash person who tries
to ride it holds in his hands, while the
propeller is worked by the legs through
the medium Of cranks and gearing not
unlike those of the bicycle.
The chief trouble with the machine,
which is claimed to be a very inexpen-
sive one, is in the fact that few people
can learn to ride it easily, due, no
doubt, to the unwillingness most peo-
pie have to fall several hundred feet
after they have started out.
About the only way by which the
inventor can inspire much confidence
in his machines would be for him to
start off at once, and take q trip out
to Mars and back again. If he were
unquestionably successful in doing
this, he would, no doubt, find large
and steady sale for his ingenious but
rather dangerous device for exploring
space.
Some Interesting Comparisons.
| man who doesn't mind devotins
his time to the making OF COMPARE
sons has made the following geo.
graphical discoveries; Greece is about
as lar-e as the state of Vermont; Pal
estine is about one-fourth as large as
the state Of New York; the Caspian
Sea is rs long as from Philadelphia to
Pittsburg; Hindoostan is about TWEEN
ty-tive times as large as the state OF
New York; and the Desert Ct Sahara
has almost exactly the number OF
square miles that the United States
has. The Mediterranean Sea is big
enough to cut the United States in
two across it's greatest breadth, MAX
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Vancouver. Great Britain and Ire
land have about the same number of
square miles as Arizona; Madagascar
is about as large as New Hampshire,
Massachusetts,, Vermont, Connecticut,
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Virginia, and North Carolina combin-
ed, while the area of England is no
greater than that of the state of
Iowa. -Harper's Young People.
Muscle as we'll as Brains Needed.
DR.. Talmage is a believer in the
necessity for q more thorough atten-
ton to the physical training of chill
dren, and in an address to young men
recently had this to say about the
matter; 49,. o.....'.
A great error is one-sided develop
ment OF either the physical, intellect
ual or moral nature at the expense
of the others-those, for instance,
who, while they are faithful in the in
tellectual and moral culture, forget
the physical. What are brains worth
without shoulders to carry them?
Better that q young man OF twenty
one 60 forth into the world without
knowing A from q, if he have healthof
body and energy to push his way
through the world, than at twenty
one to enter upon active life, his head
stuffed with Socrates and Herodotus,
but no physical force to sustain HIM
in the shock OF earthly conflicts. e