EVERY MAN HIS OWN LOCOMOTIVE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 68, 4 December 1880, Page 4

EVERY MAN HIS OWN LOCOMOTIVE.

Successive surfeits of surprise have, perhaps, somewhat dulled our appetite for startling innovations (says the Liverpool Post), but even the apathy of intellectual repletion is not proof against so amazing a novelty as that recently a&rert,iße& hy &» £2»i»e»£ American mechanician, under the heading of "Every Man his own Locomotive." The ingenious gentleman professes to have perfected a tricycle which is destined to emancipate mankind from, the tyranny of railroads. By means of compressed air, pumped into an iron reservoir, constituting the seat of the rider, the tricycle in question can be propelled forwards at the rate of 25 miles an hour ; and the inventor proposes to erect pumping stations in town and country districts, at which the travelling tricyclist will be enabled, on payment of a trifling fee, to renew his supply of pneumatic force. Ladies, who are at present debarred by sumptuary considprations and muscular disabilities from economising time and cab fares by aid of the velocipede, will asuredly welcome an appliance which will waft them, comfortably seated and without the least physical exertion, to their favorite shops at twice the speed of a Parliamentary train.

" Well, Thomas, I was sorry to hear that you had been in trouble about chickens." "Yes, Mars Alec, but I done quit all dat now," said he very penitently. "How many did you take before you stopped?" "I tuk all she had."