Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — OF INTEREST TO BICYCLISTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OF INTEREST TO BICYCLISTS

Cycling has caused a decrease in tlienumber of cabs in Berlin. Madrid hns a club'composed entirely ot children, none of whom is over 8 years old. In Bremen drivers of vehicles and horsemen are prohibited to use the street cycle paths. Cycling is greatly on the increase in Genoa, according to the British consul in. that city. The Cyclists’ Touring Club has recently added Rudyard Kipling’s name to its list of membership. x The sultan of Lahore, it is stated, possesses a bicycle of pure gold, set with precious stones. In the great pilgrimage recently made in Hungary to the shrine of Maria-Tadax there were over fifty cyclists. It has been stated that policemen m Prescot walk about in plain clothes with hooked sticks to stop cyclists. A Scotchman has constructed a bicycle' which can be taken apart, and folded within the space occupied by three umbrellas. A Philadelphia firm proposes having something unique at the great exhibition In Paris in 1900, namely, a bicycle made in solid gold about 8 or 0 feet high, with a handle-bar studded with diamonds. <