The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-06-19
OFTEN WROTE OF WHEELS.

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these selections from Shakespeare.
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III
Ayon's Bard Seems TO Have Been "a IL
miliar with the Craze. y
Shakespeare. it would seem, must :,
h,v. known something about bi- ;,
cycles. for throughout his plays he = =
makes frequent references to the i
wheel II must be that Hamlet !,
,a,her had visited abicycle academy, !,
where beginners on the wheel Were
plentv. for the ghost said: :" nat
falling oil was there says
writer in the Washington Post. !,
This most excellent description
i parralleled by another In ine
same play. in which reference i
made to an accident, the new wom-
nm of the early sixteenth century
being evidently the greatest sufferer
The first player says; ,sr
Break all the spokes ana ieiiles
; from her wheel
!, Then the fool in Lear gives
# advice to coasters, Of the neats VI
y which the modern rider may ludge
for himself. He says;
y ..Iet 90 thy hold when a great
! wheel runs down hill, lest II breaks
! thv neck with following it.
Even Cleopatra had her wheel.
/, Antbonv advises her to mount IL
and seek Caesar. when he says
: ..Of Caesar seek your honor, on
your safety. ,;.,.
thieves in those days. and owner'
had 10 carefully gaurd their precious
wheels. In 1.-The Tempest Aonz
saws to the king:
by I'VE. too, my lord.
Will guard your person while 70
" take your rest,
And watch your safety
by In the same play Ariel undoup
edly heard the king and his atten'
ler, ants coming on their wheels, whe
he sung: ~,
dong, bell = ~,
n There was no doubt that Achille
not in ..Troilus and Cressldi, 'rave,'
Hiss on a bicycle, for he says 70 Il
myrmidons: !,
ming .Attend me while wheel.
an 7, i saie to assume that, a
day the wheel is never-endi
Mrs. sonrce Of conversation, so was II
the time Of Titus Andronic'
acco thongh the listener was more
, ,be ,;ant then. Aaron says To Dem
(. rious:
X Now talk at pleasure Of yc
Use, safety. -.
Ks, 1t appears from 2 luo'allon, =, 'l,y -,
by the king in "All's Well ~
| Pa Ends Well'' that the law requll
prt." lamps TO be carried at night,
that n violation Of it was follow
by death. lie says:
Josie .I.et me live after my Tia
lacks oil.
Chains were not noiseless,
bells were used in the days OF
ler ..Comedv Of Errors" as shown
lI,ien' !, conversation between the Dro
Make of syracuse and Adriana, WI
runs thus:
:, !. - chain, a chain, do you
!, = hear it?'' =,
= - :. "What, the chain"
w. .No, no, the bell.
!. !, :. The availability OF wheels In
ieiu' cer;ous service is illustrated
:, .coriolanus.' when the vii
MIS- messenger SAYS to Cominius:
..Spies Of the Volsces
earned he,u 'n -,
, ! ~. Three or four miles about;
had 1, sir,
Half an hour since brought
report. c,..
partv wrote was evidently filled with
nired to instead Of air, and even it, cole
rler to &c Importance. In Much
vote an About Nothing Margaret say
is not I'll like the new tire "''n'li
ing or lentIy. if the hair were a tn
forming browner. =
-esolute, puck's prophetic Ien'a'n
man To placing glrdle rounu 'ic W
inst the iorty minutes y iuilv elna'
e money that Of I.aunce, IN ne W.
tlemcn Of Verona" when she
"Then may ! set the wo
all along xbecls ~
annot be surely the prophecy La
2 tnihk. fulfilled.
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