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Show FRIDA V, OCTOBER THE SUGAR HOUSE BULLETIN S, 1937 BICYCLE IS BACK IN POPULAR FAVOR MORE TEMBLORS IN WEST ARE LIKELY vA Experts Find Geological Fault Vigorously Returns After a Lapse of Generation. ' Washington, D. C. The bicycle is back again. Census bureau reports on this transportation device show that 640,000 new ones were produced in the United States in 1935, the biggest crop in thirty years. Massachusetts police chiefs are concocting traffic regulations for cyclists," says the National Geographic society. 'Large cities have d built special paths for them through shaJ; parks. Department stores offer pedaling instruction on indoor rinks or stationary wheels. Weekly bike trains carry the sportsmen, the.r cycles stabled in baggage cars, off to quiet country roads for a days exercise beyond the reach of metropolitan street jems. This latest craze in America has been seized unn as a pleaiant means of obtaining the luxuries, fresh air and exercise. In many foreign countries, however,, vhere the bicycle has long been sle'.ted the leader among vehicles, 't won its popularity contest on the durable platform of usefulness. Necessity There. In Bermuda, for instance, where automobiles are banned, bicycles are virtually a household necessity for youth and age. The flat brick highways of the Netherlands are too good as cycling roads to waste, and in many parts of that land there are separate paths for bicycles as well. Shady lanes of the English countryside, too narrow for autos, are ideal for touring on two wheels. In Nicaragua, larger imported vehicles may necessitate considerable expense, but bicycles in droves are imported from England; swarms of them dispute the streets and auof Mangua with tomobiles. Police on bicycles patrol the canal paths of southern France. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way no longer; he pedals. At sunrise peasant women briskly cydt to market, their geese for foie gras sitting in rows on handlebar cinder-surface- two-wheele- d city-dwelle- rs ox-car- ts trays. The bicycle population of Koben-havDenmark, is a third as large as the human population. Special olive direct the traffic. jin Germany bicycle tours are Plump frauleins tear along (.. 13 miles rn hour, some holding u..on umbrellas over their heads. centers are also cycling . .:. .ers. 3icycles ere widely used not only in England, but also in Ireland and Scotland. Such widespread use of cycles is comparatively recent, for their c iMipr popularity was spasmodic. e (ir?t craze was for the walk-- 1 or pedestrian curricle, de-u.ed in France and popularized in England about 1820 by the British coachmaker Denis Johnson. It was simply an invention for walking on wheels, a wooden rail mounted on two grooved wooden wheels, propelled scooter fashion. Even Johnsons riding school could not induce current sportsmen to suffer for long the general ridicule toward riders of these Fifty years, however, brought radical changes. A monument is erected in near Verdun, France, to the French locksmith Michaux who suggested pedals for wheels. One of his dissatisfied workmen ran away and patented the Idea in the United States. In Bosn, two-wheel- I v- s. Dandy-Horse- Bar-Ie-Du- ton c, carriage manufacturers began to turn them out, lumbering contrivances of wood. These 'veloci-de- s had wooden pedals shaped ike large spools. A cord was pulled o put on the brake, merely pressing a wooden spoon against the wheel to slow it. Revolutionary Step. 'Translating bicycles into metal was another revolutionary step. r .'"vey came wire, wheels, wheels with solid rubber tires, then tubular steel bicycles. The front wheel was enlarged to a diameter of five feet, to cover more distance with less pedaling while the rear wheel tagged along like a postcript, a foot high. By 1870 this highwheeler, or spider wheel, was having its day. Six - day bicycle races started. Mounting stools were supplied at the race track for ascending the giant cycle, until builders began to construct small steps on the rear of the frame. Frequent falls from this speedy model hastened its discard and cleared the way for the safety bicycle, with wheels of the same size. Pneumatic tires, invented by an Irish veterinarian for the comfort of his little son, and ball bearings contributed to the comfort of the cyclist. The craze was on again, ushering in the Nineties, whose cycling days are celebrated in song. By 1896 it was estimated that the United States had four million bike riders. Discarded Balls, Chains to Be Put in Use Again Shelby, Ohio. 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An official report of the finding has just been made to the Seismographical Society of America. Accurate lecat'on of the epicenters of these shocks, Dr. seismologist at the University of California, stated, showed that their centers do not lie along the prolongation of the famous San Andreas fault from Point Arena, but rather line up in a more or less north and south direction along a line between seventy-fiv- e and 100 miles out from the coast and extending from the northern to the southern border of Humboldt coun- s:piy Win r The snapping turtles body is inclosed as in a box between two bony shields. The skull of the turtle is more compact than that of other reptiles. There arc no teeth, the jaws being encased in horny sheaths, usually with sharp cutting edges. The eyes are furnished with two lids, and a nictitating membrane or fold of skin similar to that with which birds cover their eyes. Turtles breathe by swallowing air. The common snapping turtle inhabits the rivers of North America east of the Rocky mountains from Canada to Mexico. It attains a length of 25 inches or more and is dusky brown with dark spots on the head. The head and tail are long nr.d not capable of being drawn into the shell. The common turtle, with dark spots, the head and neck olive green with lighter Etripc.--- . I ves in some sections, says u writer in the Indianapolis News, in shallow, muddy water roft-shcl!e- olivc-brov.- i d and is ferocious, throwing itseir on its prey. There is also a species of leather turtle. Its general color is olive, spotted in the young. It has no spines or tubercles, and gran's to about 12 inches in length. Turtles excel most animals in their' tenacity of life. They can live for a long time without food; they are difficult to kill, and even after the brain has been destroyed, life lingers sometimes for a long while in. the body. It is said that a headless turtle has been observed to walk 20fl yards 24 hours after decapitation; the heart, removed from the body, will, if carefully suspended in a moist chamber, beat two or three days. All turtles are oviparous. The eggs have a firm shell, and usually arc laid in the sand or mud to be hatched by the warmth of the sun. Gold Is One Metal That Is Usually Found Pure Gold is the only metal, except for a few extremely rare ones such us platinum, that is usually found pure. Occasionally & piece ot halurahj Occurring metallic copper or silver is found, and once in a while someone finds an iron meteorite before it has rusted away. But most of the time the metals less coble than gold are found combined with other elements as ores. To convert them to free metals, says a writer in the Chicago Tribune, it is necessary to give them rather drastic treatment, such as that of the blast furnace. Gold can be made to combine with other elements by the use of indirect methods. These compounds are so unstable, however, that they can be converted back into the metal by heating them over a candle flame. Gold is almost completely resistant to the ordinary processes of corrosion. Consequently it usually occurs in one of two1 ways. It may be found as metallic granules dispersed Ihrough some type of igneous rock. Or. if the original rocky matrix has been worn away by weather, the unaffected gold particles are deposited in the gravel of some river bed, Fresks of Lightning Lightning has traveled down a lode of ore and shocked miners . working at a depth of a thousand feet; it has removed all the hair from a man without injuring him in any other way; and it has altered k the compass of a ship. In this last case, says Collier's Weekly, the vessel itself was also reversed by the storm and the wheelsman steered back over his course for a considerable distance before realizing the error. stern-struc- Invented Electric Bell a Scottish monk named Gordon, then teaching in Germany, invented the electric bell. It had two little gongs, between which was suspended a metal ball on a silk pendulum. The charged ball struck one gong, gave up its electricity in doing so, and, being repelled, struck the other gong, and the cycle was repeated. Then the monk invented a motor with which he electrocuted scores of chaffinches. It was the forerunner of the electric choir. In 1735, |