CYCLOMETRES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2258, 10 June 1897, Page 53

CYCLOMETRES.

i * i THE WHEEL OJ? LIFE. j - '■ Tedicatsd to the President ov thh i Shakesmark Club. j All tha world's a wheel, ! And all the men and women merely wheeler* t j They huva their spin?, uhey have thair spill*,' And each cuts many quaint aud curious figor«». Tha rouud baing «even phases. At iltsfc tho Tyro, j Ffttacusly olutobing at the cyela's arms : 1 Then ths «nuous Wobbler, with ready brake And pais UckJustre visage, reeling, like toser> UcwilJingiy to bis spill: theu tho Slowooaoh, Steaming like cauldron, with a woful plaster Aglue lo uoßo and eyabrcw: then the Scoroheri Of aspect ttuealenb and gs.rb f&ntaatical, l,otv-»tooped, drop-handled, learicg like » cjcilone, s I Aaieicca, avon, *nd fiaed the condign qui«J Afc the seat o'i ambraged jusfcios: theo Hh9, Racsr, • Jn vescur« aeaht, vfith oajf^r razor-face, Iniioipoie and Hcohlosa R3 a Bpsotra, i Fail of Ktrange lies and imbeiieve'd recorda, | Aud so he apins his apin •. the aixth pbaew ! Shifts into tbo kniekerbockered Senior, Witk btalc baspecUoled, aud skinny brawns A universe, too meagre for hia hese, Circling the track, his scanty wind well saved, At sufe six miles an houv t last scene of all, I'hab ends this curious comedy of wheels, Ia smash. Jtitvana, m«te oblivioa, Sans teefch, aans tyros, xans collarbones, san» everything. Morpi lhan 2000 peopls earn a living in Paris by fortune-telliDg, their total yearly earnings being estimated at £800,000. Russia has the mosfc rapidly-increasing popn« j lation o£ aoy country in the world. The growth. ! during tho last 100 years has been * fraction [ less than 1,000,000 annually.