SPORTING TRAMP.
THE SCIENTIFIC VIEW OF THE CYCLE.
WHEELMEN will read with interest the following quotation from Sir Frederick Bramwell’s address to the British Association at Bath, England:
“Consider the bicycles and tricycles of to-day—machines which afford the means of healthful exercise to thousands, and which will, probably within a very short time, prove of the very greatest possible use for military purposes. The perfection to which these machines have been brought is almost entirely due to strict attention to detail; in the selection of the material of which the machines are made; in the application of pure science (in its strictest sense) to the form and to the proportioning of these parts, and also in the arrangement of these various parts in relation the one to the other. The result is that the greatest possible strength is afforded with only the least possible weight, and that friction in working has been reduced to a minimum. All of us who remember the hobby-horse of former years, and who contrast that machine with the bicycle and tricycle of the present day, realize how thoroughly satisfactory is the result of this attention to detail—this appreciation of the ‘next to nothing.’”
A YACHT-TRIP ROUND THE GLOBE.
WE are pleased to hear from Hong Kong that the American yacht Coronet—the winner of the yacht race across the Atlantic last spring—arrived safely at Yokohama, Japan, en route round the world. We next expect to hear from the Coronet at Singapore, then at Bombay, from which latter port the yacht will proceed to England, via the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea.
FIGHT BETWEEN A VIPER AND A HEDGEHOG.
THE Copenhagen Jagttidente recently contained the following curious account of a fight between a viper and a hedgehog, as related by Dr. Bilandt, a Danish naturalist: