A PROVED MIRACLE.

Evening Star, Issue 10901, 8 April 1899, Page 1 (Supplement)

A PROVED MIRACLE.

[From the ' Adelaide Advertiser.'] Many wonderful cures have been placed to the credit of Bile Beans for Biliousness, and we have now to chronicle the marvellous case of an old lady of eighty summers who has suffered the most excruciating agony for the.past forty years, and has been discharged from a hospital as incurable. Mrs Bridget M'Arney, the lady in question, resides at Gibson street, Bowden, Adelaide, where a reporter of the 'Adelaide Advertiser' interviewed her a short time since. Mrs is a typical daughter of the " Emerald Isle." She has lived at her present address for nearly nine years, and in the district for seventeen years, and is very widely known. " Tell you the story of my illness/' she said, in response to a preliminary question; " certainly I will, with pleasure." " About forty years ago I became very ill. I suffered from severe pains in the head, chest, and stomach, and used to have b?,d fits of retching, and always, on getting up in the morning, had a bad taste in my mouth. I could not enjoy my food, and at last became so bad that I had to call in a doctor. He prescribed for me, and I con tinued takin~ the mediebhe, but it did me no good. I then called in, another doctor, who toid'me that I was suffering- from a disordered liver, and advised a change of climate as the only remedy. I tried other medicines, which did me no good I resolved to try the change of clihflte, and came out to South Australia. My health,

nessed* pfc«BffiE,:and doesn't want To, Itftei-Olw Tu?t, ot riders - include "*Ameri%/ &*s&}s> Irisjb, Swim, and OefmffiT atrtT'thfc ,B*o{e at the.. fpllowe:— Mifier 2,183 miles. Aronsoa 6,141, Fredericks 2,089, Hale 2,062, iimm 2,060, Nawn 2,Q11, Altofc .1»8£3, Bicnaby 1,792, Pilkington 1,723, Latfson 3/637, Julius 1,601, Asbinger 1,600. Milleit share of the •' 'jprfjse-money was I,7oodpi, andUln addition, jijß received fees for riding & centfn, make of Trheel, using certa&fetyxeji %n6\Wsijfe..tnfl regaling himself o%cesfcin f«9p'papp:a- < 'tions. Qompetitors* o£ . ,the prize-money, had fc* coveivCoOtL sp*es<' Several of the contestants at various stages pf tW was scarcely one of them that «id not display swelled hands and of them rode with a doublev'set of fondle barSj (high and low), so thafrh«ebui| bend, his | back or straighten it seized him. The winner gottjojttore than i seven hours' sleep during the whole of the 144 hours, and various devices had to be presorted to to get the men back to the track | when thev had gone for a sleep. > Trainers ; even went so far as to gull their toen with the gag that they had been asleep'for four hours—when in reality they had bepn barely 1 half an hour dismounted—and that they had got a long way behind. All nourishment was taken whilst riding round; and often tin plates had.to he hammered at the.side fo keep the riders awake.; ; The Gosport: (England) magistrates dig? missed a police summons against a doctor who rode a bicycle„on the footpath, on the ground that a medical man called on to an; urgent case had a legal right to tale theshortest way. : ' ~ i ' =-*• Cyclists who are tired of pedallingffcpOn mere roacU should possess " sky cycle," the invention of Mr Carl Myers, of Frankfort, United States. The = "sky.' cycle," in brief, consists of a boat-shaped gas bag inverted, so that the flat deck sufface: acts like a kite when the aerial cyclist i sets the propeller in motion with a revolution of his pedals. The driving mechanism sists of a bicycle Eeat, below which are fpot cranks or pedals which connect by shaft fend searing with hand cranks, replacing the ordinary steering bar of a bicycle, so that the whole effective muscular effort of the rider may be conveyed to the screw shaft pro jecting forward to revolve a " screw sail,' 7 about Bft in diameter. The gas vessel ha' recently been made more symmetrical bj uniting two vessels, deck to deck, so as to form a spindle. In this form, with various propelling and steerage appendages, it Has now made flights over the States of Mainer New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland,! Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois, and over nearly every county in New York State, without injury to person or vessel. Unlike a gas balloon, it usually sails at a low level (though it has occasionally reached two miles elevation), and it is purposely balanced or weighted to come down if left to itself, only slight effort being necessary to keep it aloft. Great speed is not easily obtained, but progress to right or left, up or down, or turning in a circle, is quite simple and very pleasant. The 'Field,' referring to cheap bicycles, savs : —" The constant trouble and expense to which the majority of badly-made bicycles give rise go far to counterbalance the advantage gained by the smaller initial outlay. The few pounds saved are soon absorbed in repairs of one sort or another, and in railway fares, etc., when something goes wrong, with a machine on a journey. Jt is only those who have had experience • of bicycles of various qualities who are able i to appreciate the remarkable difference between those of good and bad construction. In their running powers there is no.comparison, the one responding instantly to every pressure of the foot, the other running dead, and appearing to absorb much of the power applied. The difference is chiefly" conspicuous on riding up hill, for it is then that the weakness of a badly-built frame is apparent." A cycling racing question that will probably command the attention of the National Cyclists' Union will be that of allowing records gained behind wind shields. These aids to pace have only once been used m England—viz., by M. Cordang, when, in September, 1897, he placed the worlds twenty-four, hours' record to his credit. In France the racing authorities have aeolined to recognise "times" made behind wind shields, as is instanced by their refusal to recognise Huret's sixty-five miles m two hours (behind wind shields), which had been duly docketed by certain writers as the world's record. With the advent of motor pacing, which it is said is eventually to entirely supplant human pacing, there is little doubt that wind shields will become less a negligible quality than heretofore.