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Show Swimming by Machinery. A ten-jouad swimming machine thftt may be packed in a suit coso ls the lnventlen of a Frenchman. It ls a safe and rapid seml-crait for the man who Hwims or the man who doesn't At tho front of tho apparatus ls a cylindrical cy-lindrical metal float, with conical point and a depending rudder. At the resr ls another metal float, with etlrrups acting upon a propeller, tho two ends connected by a wooden bar on which the Ewlmmer Hen as If on the water. Kicking with bis feot and alternately alternate-ly pushing and pulling with a cross handle bar Just back of the forward float, the swimmer on tbo swimming machine gets a maximum of exercise while making a speed Impossible to the ordinary swimmer oo the open water. |