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Show a leather wallet, and the weapon is a revolver. But while all this is easy to understand, and also that bicycles or tricycles are allowed at the option of the riders, the former having the superiority in speed and the latter in stability, it may not be quite so clear how the cycle is of avail for the sailor. The explanation is that it is not intended for use on shipboard, but for landing parties, and even then mainly for scouting and reconooissan-ces. reconooissan-ces. it must be said that this is going to extremes in the anxiety to use the new appliance, and that the occasions when it would be of value could hardly pay for the trouble of taking care of the machine. The uses of the wheel in army manccuvres are apparent, but naval cyclists seem to be as superfluous as horse marines. It is possible after all that the bicycle will come into more general use by and by. The New York Sun says: "Ve-locipedists "Ve-locipedists are now desired iu France for naval as well as military service. Four years ago, at the mobilization of a French army corps, they carried messages mes-sages to and from headquarters with such rapidity as to receive a regular organization or-ganization in the military . establishment establish-ment of France; -and Russia is now " following ' that example. exam-ple. The wheelmen wear loose artillery artil-lery jackets and! canvas trousers, and may have, for rain, a rubber cloak with a hood;, their despatches are carried in |