The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16

custom lies among scattered farmsteads
has exchanged his horse and buggy, for
cycle-barber-chair- The very
novelty OF this travelling apparatus IN
creaSeS the number of rustics who come
fer their periodical shaVes or hai"cuts:
and Figaro on wheels is a thorough sue
cess.
tricycle. description is an electrically
lighted cigar store" on wheels which Is
now being propelled by its owner about
the streets of Berlin, Germany The
cigar salesman pedals around in search
OF customers. II IS, in measure, the
parable of Mahomet and the mountain
reversed. The body OF the vehicle con-
ssts of a box which is used 10 carry
Storage batteries. The box is sur
mounted by a handsome glass case in
which the cigars ana tobacco are eX-
hibited- In front OF the case are the
necessary apparatus for lighting and
clipping off the ends Of cigars. Above all,
- g, framework carrying a series Of in
candescent lamps which set OF the enter
prise at night and attract customers to
it. In the neighOorhood of the cafes
and theatres this very modern tob2ccon-
isl does a thriving business.
THE OEGAN-GRINDING WHEEL
MAN.
one of the latest adaptations of the
tricycle. 70 affairs OF trade is in the line
OF the street piano. The value Of these
Instruments as money makers and for
popularizing new music has alreacy Deen
lJelnted out. Out Of respect TO geoSraphi-
cal distances they have seldom Str2yed
far from metropolitan centres. There
fore they are sure TO be revelation in
backWoods districts An Italian with ad-
yanced ideas has become impressed with
this fact and has given an order TO a
prominent piano manufacturing nrm IN
New York for a tricycle. street piano he
intends TO stick TO the unWorked county
districts, travelling from village 10 village
and from town to town, until he strikes
the more western cities where street
pianos have not yet penetrated. Then
he may take il more slowly. As the idea
is new and as his transported lion viii cost
him virtually nothing, he ought soon 10
be able TO accumulate the fortune which
every Italian IS SAD 70 De t Sina io oe
with view to returning to the land OF
Sunshine and spicy garlic smells.
EVEN THE BABIES.
Allied to the tricycle. street 2iano is
the tricycle. baby carriage. man IN
upper New York City has arranged II
ard there is now q constant Struggle be-
tween the members of that family to see
which one will give baby his airing II
involves the principle of a new style OF
bicycle IL which the handle bar is sit
l.sfed in the rear OF the rider, the han
dies occupying a position at the sides
and coming around in front just enough
70 allow the cyclist to grasp them and
On the New York boulevard, which
is eminently a thorOughfare OF wheels,
q pink lemonade vender operates tri-
stock in trade The large water cooler
which holds his connection of aniline and
lemon juice, is situated on ,atforln
behind the seat. As a rule he halts by
the wayssde and so dispenses his cooling
4.sr,aaght to weary cyclers, but he has
been known on special occasions TO draw
q glassfun of lemonade while en- route
and .7and it over to thirsty wheelman
who elstwhile pedaled along by his side.
LAWN-MOWER CYCLES.
Tie idea of the bicycle lawn mower
was 'ones ago put into practice by a
New York state man who found that it
worked very well on Level ground, but
that it was apt to overturn its rider
when operated on the side of a nil. 1t
has since been improved upon and is now
capable Of cutting grass on any slope
that viii hold an ordinary safety bicycle
when pcdaled sidewise TO the hill. The
rider, of course, sits upright under all
circumstances; the mower alone adjust
ing itself 10 the slope. Practically the
AFFAIR is an unicycie with a moving ap