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Show Antomotill I'rlrM. From Harper's Weekly Then wtt a time xhen bicycles cost MM each Then every manufacturer wlose plant waa dlvertlblo In the manufacture of blcyclia made blcycla Now, after six or seven years of very active blcycle-bulldlng, and one can buy a first-rate bicycle an)whem for flO, and superior buyers can probably supply themselves for about halt that sum. What automobile automo-bile cost at present Is best known to persons affluent enough to puchtte and play with these ms. hints, but, reasoning reason-ing by analogy, ttey will soon cost very much less, for every factory that can aeems to be making them Carriage Car-riage factories and bicycle factories especially, all over tho country, are taking ordera for them. This year they are the toys of tho well-to-do By another an-other season they will be so spread abroad that their value as plsythlngi may have lessened, but that Is of small consequence computed with the Immense Im-mense field that seems to be opening for them as vehicles for chesp and rapid transportation. That they will ever bo brought "within tho means of all" Is not to Imi expected, but there seems to be a good proipcct that they will soon be brought within the means of moat persons who can afford at present pres-ent to keep horses. |