The record-union., 1898-02-10

felt want and is an invaluable aid TO
church workers, especially to the poor
there are plenty such-par-
ticularly in country parishes, where
there are long distances to be covered
iii the course OF visiting. The Bishop
is a Trinity Dublin) man, and before
his present elevation was Archdeacon
of Liverpool and Bishop Of Sodor and
Man
American single-tube tires are to be
pushed abroad in way that means
business British prejudice against
single tubes, based on no legitimate
has existed too long with
out a serious attempt being made TO
break it down. A syndicate of Amer
lean makerssis now TO attack the enemy
in its stronghold, and prove by a sys-
ternatic campaign the advantages OF the
tire.
The Good Roads League of Youngs-
town, o., has entered into an arrange
good roads campaign in that part OF
Ohio in the coming season. This league
did good work last year, and will be en-
its new alliance.
The cyclists weight should be dis
tributed between the saddle and the
pedals, with just enough thrown on the
handles to keep the balance. Lean
ing over often brings fatigue to the
chest muscles, while pain in the back is
often due to the same cause.
New York Tribune: From different
parts of the country come complaints
from farmers anent the bicycle. In
one region the farmers have registered
a vow to employ hereafter no farm
hands who ride the wheel, the ground
of their objection being that men VINO
take spins of some length every pleas
ant evening and century runs on Sun
days are thereby untitled to do their
farm work properly. This is doubtless
true, but it does not follow that every
farm worker who owns a wheel is GER
tain to tire himself on it evenings and
Sundays. After a hard days work II
can but be a pleasant relaxation 10
many if they are able to look forward
to a few miles of bicycle riding before
going to bed, and a ride Of moderate
length on Sunday will do them good
rather than harm. If the farmers in
sist on moderation in the use of the
wheel they will do wisely; to prohibit
it altogether will be likely to react to
their own injury. Especially will the
farmers boys be better content to re-
main at home if they have the privi-
lege and pleasure of owning bicycles
in
when work is hardest and the days
longest.
A simple rule for determining the
gear of chainless wheels has been for
mulated An authority on the subject
says that the gear is equal to the num-
ber of revolutions of the rear wheel d.
vided by the number of revolutions
made by the crank in the same time,
multiplied by the diameter OF the
wheel in inches. That sounds little
abstruse, but it is easy TO apply IN
practice SO as at least to approximate
closely to the actual gear. The wheei
must be lifted from the floor on a
frame or stood on its head" Vhen
make a mark of some kind on the rear
wheel and revolve the crank until the
pedal and the mark on the wheel come
around at the same time to just the
same positions which they occupied IN
the beginning, noting, of course, the
number of revolutions made by each.
Now, divide the number of revolutions
of the wheel by the number OF revolu-
tions of the crank and multiply by the
diameter of the wheel, usually twenty
eight inches.
DR.. Marcel of London recommends
bicycle riding as a remedy for asthma
Here is what he says about in let
ter to the Medical Record: IF asthma
is a form Of mountain sickness and IL
that distressing affection Of high alti-
tudes can be cured by training for the
exercise of climbing, why should not
asthma also yield to the training of the
carried out by practicing the
respiratory movements needed to carry
the tidal air through the lungs? Of all
of training respiration l think
cycling is the best. When a person first
takes a cycling exercise, 1t Will De
found, especially on going up hill, that
the breath is wanting, the heart beats
uncomfortably and the legs tire, but
after training these discomforts d1sap-
pear, nothing will be thought of ascend
ing hills, the heart has become perfectly
all breathlessness has dis
appeared and the legs will no longer
feel any fatigue"
President Potter of the L. A. w. is
negotiating with the Government to
obtain for league uses official maps COW
ering practically the entire country. The
idea is to have them made up in durable
style, pocket size, and issue them free
to members. These maps are equal to
the famous ones prepared by the French
Government.
"Jervis' Weekly" New York: Chair
man Albert Mott evidently does not care
who he hits when he wants to express
an opinion. Despite the fact that chain
less wheels are selling well, he is quoted
as delivering himself in this wise rela-
tive to winter riding: "A ride in several
inches of freshly formed snow, like rid
ing over the thickly fallen leaves of
autumn, is a delightful change and full
of exhilaration. If you are properly
clothed for it, the rarest and most en-
joyable novelty is to ride through a
driving and drowning rain and feel the
sensation that you are snug and dry
Except for the perspiration and a natu
raj southern thirst when you approach
the suburban trough. OF course, you
want a gear case to make things run
at such times, but those will
be as common in '9S as hay wagons on
the Lancaster pike. Gear cases will
be the great rival Of the chainless wheel
in the coming season. The manufact-