No bicycle rider of the present day has tbe same title to fame as a man in Nebraska, United States, by name George Washington Weston, renowned as " the great wheelbarrow trundler." ]Vf r Weston has just created a great sensation at St Louis owing to his having " navigated " a wheelbarrow from New Orleans to that city. He had been almost seven months on the road, having" started from New Orleans on the 20th February last. He was accompanied by his wife and three children, whose luggage was conveyed, in the barrow. Economy, it is stated, suggested to Mr Weston the use of his vehicle. His means being almost exhausted at New Orleans, and il being necessary that he and his family should return to their home at Brownsville, in Nebraska, he purchased a wheelbarrow, and, filling it with the family effects, comrhenced his long journey. To supply the necessaries of life, he manufactured and sold during the expedition over eighty-dozen axehandles. : The Rev. R T. Wethered, vicar of Hurley, deprecates the acrobatic performance in swimming baths, and says : — " Such evolutions are no doubt highly graceful, and wonderful as gyrations in the water, but what, we want is that stimulus should be given to straight '. forward, strong, and downright prac- ; tical swimming, such as will be of real use in time of need. The lorig, steady; forward arm stroke, with the hands together, and well extended in their ; negative position, until ithe force of the \ positive leg stroke (simultaneous with , the negative arm stroke) is expended^ ; the movement and elasticity of this ■ whole body — for . the strong: swimmer ► Works not only With his arms arid lege f — is really the style which we ought to 1 cultivate. Rapid strokes, while thej . ' take a good deaLout ' of the swimmeri ; . do not in the end conduce either to \ rapidity of motion or to long con tinur ) anpo of self sustentation. It stands tc J reason that the longer the negative arm ' stroke can be mairitairied before tht [ separation of the ;palhas of the^ ;handi ' backwards, the lest opposition is " givet \ to ihe progress of the body in its move . ment through the water. Why is i f boß#pointed in the bow? P
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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 30, 4 February 1875, Page 6
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