The record-union., 1899-07-17

having his roads so improved. 1t mas
taken only five years to do this and
the action of the Farmers Congress
would indicate that the work Of. con-
version has been complete.
New York Tribune: Too much
emphasis cannot be laid upon the value
of exercise. All systems of diet are
of little value, unless propert exercise
is taken, SO that the food may be trans
formed into healthy blood. In fact,
man is more likely to enjoy good health
if he eats anything and everything, and
takes regular exercise than it he diets
himself and leads an altogether seden-
tary life. Pliny gives an account of
Greek MUSICIAN, residing at Rome, VINO
had so great faith in. exercise as
means of restoring health, that he al
most wholly abandoned the use of med
icinal agents in his treatment of dis
ease, and declared that he was will
ing to be pronounced a charlatan If
he himself ever became i'll, or if he
died from any other cause than Old age
or accident. The historian tells US that
this wise physician lived to be nearly
one hundred years DID, and then died
as the result of an accident, being still
in the enjoyment Of vigorous health.
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The careful wheelman has long since
recognized that it requires no law to
compel rider with proper regard for
his own safety to carry a lamp at night
on a dark long route like the Folsom
or the Thirtieth street paths. The aver
age Bicycle lamp to-day is a rather
ornamental adjustment to a bicycle,
and the additional weight is nothing
except to the scorcher, who must re-
duce the weight of his mount down 10
the lowest possible limit This class Of
wheelmen always did object to carry
ing lamp, and he always will. in
New York the law requires the lamp
to be carried at night, and to be bright
ly burning.
Continual riding, especially if the
handlebars are dropped, is apt to cause
a cramp in the upper muscles of the
arms. To lift or lower the saddle will
generally give relief, but the best plan
isto swing the arms rapidly. A differ
ent set of muscles is set into motion
by doing this, and the rider need not
get off the machine.
Russia is said to have the finest
bicycle track in the world. The track
is situated on the plans of Kodinsky,
at Moscow, and is one of the most mod
ern things in the old Russian capital.
The track is six hundred metres less
than three laps to the mile, is entirely
of cement, with steep banking at the
turns, and has a system of electric tim
ing which is said to work successfully.
According to a committee appointed
by the city of Atlanta, Ca, to deter
mine what make of bicycle was best
for the Atlanta police to ride. there
are just nine makes to fill the bill, and
the committee wisely refrained from
saying which one of the three-quarters
of a dozen makes was the best. The
committee had nine members.
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She Austrian racing men who won
some fame on the tandem are now do
ing police work on motor cycles IN
Vienna. where their duty is to enforce
upon wheelmen and users of automo-
biles the regulations prohibiting fast
riding and requiring the carrying of
registered tags.
The Wheelway badges for unat-
taehed wheelmen go off slowly. The
c. c. w. will probably not again at
tempt to issue such badges, nor will
it attempt again to build wheeIways,
unless the users manifest more gener-
osity than they now do.