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Show This Governess Is a Perfect Gem. The following advertisement appears, it need not be said, in a religious newspaper. news-paper. If 6even of the rising generation can have "all virtue" imparted to them, together with the four spirits specified, at the inclusive price of 20 for the lot, -t may be regarded, I think, as good business: "Nurse speaking with perfect elegance and purity of language, capable of informing in-forming children to all virtue and of molding them in the spirit of simplicity, simplic-ity, meekness, goodness and piety; seven children; wages, 20." Exchange. A Five-year-old Wonder. Little "Bud" Stuart of Kalamazoo, Mich., who is only 5 years old, as a phenomenal phe-nomenal young rider stands to the bicycle bicy-cle world as does Sunol or Fantasy to the horse world. Although hardly out of his kilts and having ridden but one season, sea-son, his tricks as well as speed are something some-thing marvelous. He has a perfect phy sique and is a bundle of muscles from the ground up. In spite of the fact that he has never seen a trick rider and has no tutor, he performs as many wonderful wonder-ful and difficult feats as most old riders, such as riding on one pedal, riding one wheel, standing upon the saddle, riding upon the handle bars, etc. His wonderful strength and fearlessness fearless-ness alone make this possible. In mounting, mount-ing, his small stature makes the usual method an impossibility, and it is necessary neces-sary for him to leap into the saddle. But when once firmly seated it is an easy matter for him to reel off a mile in 3:20, and he has records over our country roads of 10 miles in 1 hour 1 minute, and 20 miles in 2 hours 15 minutes, with occasional oc-casional short rests. He holds his own against old riders in a spurt of an eighth or quarter mile, and great things are expected ex-pected of him this season, as he is taking his regular constitutional every day this winter. Wheel. j |