The Wheel and the Way.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 133, 19 December 1885, Page 6

The Wheel and the Way.

What would we (says the "Pall Mall Budget") not; give to be able to interview at this moment Mr Thomas Stevens, the, intrepid English bicyclist, who, on his twowheeled steed, has ridden across Europe from Calais to Constantinople, and, waxing bolder by success, haa pushed on through Asia Minor to 1 Persia. He is now at Tabreez, and from thence he is going, to push on through Afghanistan to India. Burnaby's ride to Khiva is nothing compared to this bicyclist's tour to Herat. To what visions of terror ho must have given rise in Asiatic villages as he sped noiselessly through a wondering population. To ccc a wheel running away with a man on the of it must have suggested thoughts of Sbaitan and the Afrits with which Eastern imagination has peopled the invisible world. But how the world shrinks, and what, a prospect does the adventurous 'cyclist open up before the eyes of wheel-men i If a bioyolist can trundle his way over .Ararat and the Himalayas, what corner of the world will be left unviaited by, the silent riders of the iron steed? We shall have trioypling r parties to .Thibet and bicycling tours to Pekin. t Who khow.s' but that before next century dawna it will be recognised that the inventor of the bioycle has done more to revolutionise the 'religious, moral,, and social ideas of mankind than' all the philosophers of, our, time 2 < . >

Two Kentucklan^We^cdnvertiDg upon u prodigioun ". topics, when one of. -them said ho had ft grandfather who was eighteen feot high: upon which the other re; piled, with,lhe usaalinasal ;impre«aiveneM, Jfl. .guess, v atranger r everything igrowi . .mjghtly in ithia;,gro«t, ooantry:. ib-don* I ,w^s. going ,throogh.';the forest lately*uftnd ejw—would you;belieT« it.?-%»rsnjikefthree ' miles ■ long." His. companion frankly)jwid he,w.ould not believe ilt«>f;iW!ordBdb«g«n to run!; high, when a thirdlpaUtyiinterpoted and ibegged .they nWDuldaiiofecqo«*wliinpon the grounds Lof .their-rospecUreiGt»3ibl!ity. "Well," replied the 2 man, who •.had given bis, experience in. Bylvan zoology, f liflon't wa.nt to auarral;;and. if ho. (pointing to the individual with whomviiO!.h«ddA<ttbfchd dispute) will take twelve feet off his grandfather 111 see what I can' do with my, atiake/H^.^^i ■..

When a Missouri mife^ila'oathi^rjMl. dent he f d!icar^;|is guja-M |te|W hid trotjßers.out of hie i bpptlega and gets off the following" speedfe" tf^aiftf -#j9 n< * camp meeting 'tone/ "^ Tre^en^ X«m p^Sa to 7 havVth'e r clist^gi(!Bh;«l Jofe of Bhaking bands with a Democratic President after waitingtwenty-four^ears: r " {. 'Then he s looks for a cußpidbr, but remembers- that he doesn't need one, and. takes out of'^his pocket a lot of documents showing* thati he' has been a patriot and , office-seekerf from way back.— " New York Tribdne." ' .