Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — Bicycle Engine. [ARTICLE]

Bicycle Engine.

“A bicycle fitted out with a small chemical tank and a fire ax is being experimented with in Boston,” says a paper there. “The practical value of the experiment cannot be estimated at present. The machine is being tried by one of the men, who is a wheelman, and for whom it was made. It is a lady’s light roadster, with cushion tires, and, with its whole outfit, weighs about 60 pounds. The chemical tank, fixed between the head of the machine and the seat, holds about two gallons of chemical, which amounts as an extinguisher to twelve pails of water.”

Editor Stead, of the Review of Reviews and Borderland, has taken up a new fad. He is booming a new Jag cure and advertises for “half a dozen first-class drunkards—confirmed, hopeloss, gin-sodden dipsomaniacs,” upon whom to experiment. With such a wealth of material as the House of Lords and the London Board of Aidermen close at hand Mr. Stead will probably have no difficulty in securing what he?jvants. A gas meter never lets grass grow under its feet.