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Show The Chinese Taxlcab. We nro assured thnt tho tnxlcab Is no new thing, being, In Its general principles, n thing known to tho nn-dent nn-dent Rofhnns; but now nn orientalist goes even further and asserts' thnt mechanical me-chanical carts cnpable of registering distances traveled by counting nnd recording tho revolutions of very lnrgo cartwheels connected by cogs with other oth-er concentric or eccentric horizontal and perpendicular wheels of proportionate propor-tionate diameters, hnvo been well known to tho Chlneso for 1,700 or 1,800 years. On top of tho cart was tho flguro of u man holding a drum, which he bent when ono 11, a, third of n mllo, was traveled. Some carts had, In ml-dltlon, ml-dltlon, n figure holding n cymbal, which was struck when tho drum had been beaten ten times. |