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Show WHAT THE TOMBSTONE SAYS WJ aSBQSRSeffflgfa rim five inches (1'tom the New Yeik Woild.) A motor monocytic of strung design and for which gnat things are claimed has been invented by Oswald Jensen of New York. In appearance this traveling machine is unlike any other vehicle In use today. Within a huge wheel with a seat pneumatic tire is on which the driver rides. The machine is not a hvop the loop affair, as one viewing the pictures of it might supjose, the rider Ik ing always in an upright position. The advantages claimed for this queer motor carriage by its inventor are many, it offers not only a new and easy method of rapid speeding overland, hut it opens avenues of travel that are closed to all other styles of vehicles in its ability of move over rough, sandy and rocky country, it hounds over rocks and other obstacles. declares its inventor, "with as much case as a horse trained to It requires neither road nor rail, but over fields and travels cross-countr- y meadows, climbing hills and bounding over ditches and other Irregularities of the land formerly considered insurmountable barriers even to the fitted with a pneumatic tire. The rider sits within this wheel upon a movable seat, which, in being operated toward either side, causes the wheel to he ht erred and balanced. The upright position of the motor and rider is maintained by means of eight small win els which travel uon tracks fixed upon the inner side of the main rim. While these wheels render tin position of the motor frame and seat independent of the rotary motion of the rim. the scat also letains a vertical (Hisltion ut of the frame. To produce this effect the seat is suspended between two standards, which in turn slide late rally across the motor casing. When traveling at leisure along country roads the rider extends the auxiliary wheels toward the rear on each side of the main wheel, thus converting the machine into a trie.v V. : c!e; but when it Is desired to attain t high speed, or to cro'-- uneven country. he draws them within the large wheel and rides upon a single tire. The auxiliary wheels ran also be OSWALD dlXSZK TUS 1XVTXTGX. extended so as to form three wheels ' abreast. In which position they are tjt h ttQXQCYCLD mainly intended to serve as stays to a position in t lit lower por hold the vehicle in an upright position occupies tlon of the frame; hut wlun the powwhen at rest. er is applied the motor moves forAn interesting feature of travel by ward and upward in proportion to the this unique machine is the sensation The seat also of rising at each alteration of the rsistance encountered. hut in a lessor degree, and it rises, speed caused by the peculiar method holds its vertical whereby traction is produced. When in the standards. position by swinging the power Is applied the rider rises The tractive fleet, being thus sewithin the wheel, and. as the speed cured by the rising movement of the weight within, enables the wheel to travel over any surface however imU-pt-m- mu-pende- Jump." wide i Made Occupant of Grave a Rival of Methusaleh. One of (iciman town's obi graveyards contains n tombstone on which Is a most unusual inscription. It is as Hu im nmry of the right, which in being operated follows: "Saertsl to Pied Ikvomber 23. move the scat laterally of the frame, William Oxley. I 1S22. age 919 years." I low any perresulting in an unequal distribution of son ( mild have attained sat h an weight, which causes the wheel to wonderswerve in one direction or the other, extraordinary age many havelast bet n ed, hut the problem has at changing its course or maintaining iti solved The dead man was 49 jeats equilibrium as may be desired. did i if age. but when tin stonecutter , re.-Win n at or when traveling 94 by work he made Mr. Hxh-the steadily over even ground, the motor mistake. Mai bio was expensive in those days, and although the stone jm seemed to be ruined by the error, the tradesman old not fi t I like tasting it aside. After the 94 lit cut a nine, and tlun filled in lie first nine with plaster, leaving the age, 4!. as reThe invages of time and quired. weather have laid bare the work as it was originally, and now the tombstone William Vxley to have - g. : ' proclaims f been 149 years of age. Record. b i v s i smooth without slipping and to climb grades which no other machine can overcome. Since by the great diameter of the main wheel the inunocycle is useful for traveling through rough country, ordinary obstacles presenting but slight obstruction to its passage, its inventor claims that it will prove of service for military purposes, and alsc to those who for business or other reasons are compelled to pass through desolate territory. Its inventor nas great expectations of the monocycle as a racing machine. Its small width (being in all but thirty-four inches when the auxiliary wheels are retracted) causes it. with the assistarce of the rotative movement of the rim, to glide along rapidly, attaining a speed of a mile per minute without being subjected to severe atmospheric resistance. The monocycle differs from other motor-drivevehicles in that it does not draw upon the ground to produce the tractive effect, but tumbles forward with continuous falling motion, applying new surfaces of the tire to new surfaces of the ground without relying upon the stability of the latter for maintenance of motion. It thus has the distinction of being the only machine which successfully travels on loose sand, and, therefore, the first practical substitute for the ancient ship of the desert the camel. Its adaptability for traveling over ice and snow might also render Mr. Jansens invention a valuable au for the Arctic explorer. n most reckless chauffeur. And it has the speed capacity of an express train a mile a minute. In addition to the one large wheel upon which it travels the monocycle has two auxiliary wheels, which can he extended to the ground or drawn within the large wheel, as may be de-- sired. The main wheel is nine feet in diameter and consists of a light steel Dog Loops Loop. increases, he gradually sinks back into his former position, from which he is again elevated when he applies the brake; but whatever speed may attain or however abruptly progress may be checked the rider is not carried too far from his normal position, his rise being checked by automatic brake and power releases. When in motion the monocycle is balance and steered with a lever on Brevity the Soul of Wit. The anonymous writer who contributes to the Sunday Magazine, Arrows Shot in the Air, tells us: Emerson wrote a chapter and then tried to reduce it to a page. He wrestled with the page until he gathered its force into a paragraph. Then he did battle with the paragraph until ts pith stood revealed in a sentence. This was told me by his friend, Justin Winsor, the accomplished librarian of Harvard university, who added that it explained the epigrammatic quality of Emersons essays, and the abruptness as well as the thought-packenature of his style. Liverpool (Eng.) Mercury. d According to his trainer it was a business of extraordinary difficulty to induce tin creature to complete Mu circle. Half way up the ling he vvt old go clioei fully hut the topmost steiion in which for the traction of a second he hung bark downwards was on'y negotiated after months and month of practice. As in all other loops Mw secret of success is speed, hut till tiny fox terrier is the only dog in existence to perform the feat. A Cartridge in Dangerous Place. remarkable discovery was recent y made at Woolwich. Amongst the rubbish talon to the borough dust do- st motor was found a suspicious-lookin- in g canvas. On packet, wrapped it was louiul to conbeing examined tain an explosive. It was immediately placed in a pail ol water. Mr. (Ilan-ville- . for Woolwich, representative & to it be a (o., pronounced Kynoch granite biasing cartridge. eight inches in length and four in width. On cutting it open it was found to be composed of compressed gunpowder, through which was a tube filled with The cartridge was the most powerful of its kind, and is supposed to have been shipped inadvertently with some granite supplied to the borough council for road repairing. liondon Telegraph. gun-cotto- Ancient Snuff Box. Since the days when snuff takbic wrent out of lashion the collection ol snuff receptacles lias come into vogue and flourished as few fads have. Many of the largest museums display rn-groups of these trinkets, some rudelv fashioned of ordinary materials am) t others studded with costly gems. I n the British Museum there is a small but interesting collection of English, French and Chinese specimens. While the French boxes were daintily decorated and jeweled, those of Scotland, an example of which is reproduced here, were rather crude in form and workmanship. New York Herald. |