Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1895 — New Things That Are Old. [ARTICLE]

New Things That Are Old.

In spite of the protests of inventors, and those who believe they have investigated everything since the deluge, that there is nothing new under the sun, the Psalmist was right when he put that thought into the colloquial language. On the Assyrian slabs, and on more than one old European fresco, is seen the paddle wheel for boats, although the propeller is not in evidence. The bicycle seems to have been known in China more than 200 years ago, and the velocipede was seen in Europe even before that. On a page of the ancient painted glass in the old church at Stoke Pogis, England, may be seen the representation of a young fellow astride of one of these machines. He is working his way along with the air of a rider who has introduced a novelty, and is the object of the unbounded admiration of a multitude of witnesses.