Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1876 — Bicycle vs. Horses. [ARTICLE]

Bicycle vs. Horses.

A ten mile race, between a fast horse named Happy Jackand a velocipede rider named Stanton, recently took place at Lillie Bridge, England, for $250. For the first three miles the horse kept level with the bicyclist. The ground was rather sticky—owing to late rams—for both, and Stanton seemed laboring, but this is his peculiar way of riding. Stanton was the favorite at as much as three to one, for the start allowed him was generally considered too much. For three miles the horse went easily; where he lost at the corners hemade up in the straight. This style he kept up unlil the sixth mile, when his stride began to falter, not being ridden so well as on the last occasion, combined with the eflect of the extra weight he was carrying. Stanton from this point gradually went ahead, and in the next mile he had gained fifty yards. The horse was now beaten, and after going another lap was pulled up at eight miles. Stanton went on and finished the- distance, ten miles less 764 yards, in thirty-four minutes and thirty-four seconds, being at an average velocity of nearly eighteen miles an hour. He rode a fifty-eight inch machine, weighing forty pounds. He seemed to have a good deal more in him had it been required.—{scientific American. A fascinating young widow having married 'an elderly man, annoyed him by frequent references to her first husbftna, whereat the old gentleman finally remonstrated. "I dare say,” replied the fond creature, pouting her pretty lips, “ that you’ll be glad to have me remember yog when you are dead and gone and I’m marrifed again.” ■ 'A Texas firm is. doing a profitable business in preparing and shipping animal sinews. ... ""t ‘‘Don’t swear or" ask for postage stamps” is a Boston druggist’s placard of admonitibn to his customers. \