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Show WHEELING NOTES. ' Cycling Is making great progress in India, which can now boast two Jour-als Jour-als devoted to the pastime. One Is published in Bombay, tho othor In Calcutta. Cal-cutta. In Berlin arrangements aro being made to npportlon oft a narrow tgnck along the sides of tho principal thoroughfares. thor-oughfares. Under these conditions tho risk ot cycling even in tho city would bo minimized. It' is surprising that more accidents do not occur, especially to lady riders, owing to tho lack of attention which many of them pay to their machines, and also their unwillingness In many cases to attain any mechanical knowledge, knowl-edge, fhtch they regard as unnecessary unneces-sary and io much avoidable trouble. Ono has often seen ladies riding on machines In a condition which almost "raises one's hair," and with an indifference indif-ference which no man would dare to emulate. A 'rather alarming prospect is suggested sug-gested by the announcement that a medical ' man has "found tho bicycle ot great benefit to patients In tho early stages of mental disease. It It can be guaranteed that ho insane cyclist shall bo. strictly confined to his own rpremlses, or 'to thoso of the asylum or sanatarluni of which he may be a guest, well and good. But tho mere off-chance of the addition of bedlamite "bikers" to tho already abounding perils per-ils of tho strcetB is enough to shatter the imld wayfarer's last remnant of nerve, and to darken his dally walks abroad with tho shadow of an over-present over-present terror. A lady cyclist has written a cycling paper making the extraordinary declaration dec-laration that ever slnco sho began riding rid-ing sho has made it her chief ambition "to run oyer chickens. Ono has often marveled, at tho Imperturbable calm with whl'clv tljo average domestic fowl wlll'stand in the-path of an advancing cycle until the very last moment, and then with a swift simultaneous movement move-ment of logs and wings neatly elude It by a hnlr'u breath. They aro caught -wsoUgiair, iVi-'icV" n mas tt-c. fact. of seyeral riders having been thrown by unskillful chanticleers which drew forth the announcement of this eccentric eccen-tric lady's pastime. |