This is a very romantic story, and very pleasing to our national vanity to think that one of the daughters of America may some day be closely related to the Queen of England, but it is a very remote contingency, and not very likely to occur.
INVENTION AND DISCOVERY.
Tennessee has the latest thing in bicycles.
It seems that the wheel craze is just as rampant there as it is in our own fair city of New York, but that the facilities for owning machines are not as great there as here.
To overcome this, a bright-minded individual has invented a new device, which is certainly the most ingenious we have yet heard of.
It is a "nickel-in-the-slot" bicycle, and probably works somewhat on the principle of the "quarter-in-the-slot" gas-meter, which for every twenty-five cents put in, releases just that coin's worth of gas to illuminate your house.
The bicycle, however, is arranged in such a manner that for every five-cent piece dropped in the slot it will run exactly five miles.
There is not the slightest fear of the rider forgetting to renew the nickel when he has ridden his five cents' worth; nor is there any chance of his cheating the wheel out of an extra mile—or half inch, for the matter of that.