Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — The Most Difficult Thing. [ARTICLE]

The Most Difficult Thing.

“What is the most difficult thing about a bicycle?” This question was asked at a diningtable in the U. S, Nat’l Museum case by an up-to-date gentleman. The question was put separately, and several answers were given, as follows: “Pushing a long hill;” “Paying for tne wheel,” remarked another; “Carrying It home on your shoulder,” was another, and so on. But the climax was reached when Professor Thomas Wilson, of the Smithsonian Institution, responded, saying that the most difficult thing and experience about a bicycle was to “Keep from talking and hearing others talk about them.”—L. A. \V. Bulletin.