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Western Star, Issue 2216, 24 June 1898, Page 4

A West End policeman has told “ Science Siftings” that the record shows that twenty bicycles are stolen daily, chiefly from persons who have left them for a few seconds standing on the kerb, in the metropolis alone. Thus over 1000 bicycles are being annually sacrificed to the enterprise of the lightfingered gentry. At a recent theatrical wedding in New York the Press agent of the bride sent in the following notice to one of the prominent papers, hut it failed to appear in print “ The jellies upon the tables were pure amber masses of quivering translucence, catching the wine-coloured prisms of perfumed light, and holding them in tremulous mirrors of rosy beauty.”