The Latest 'Cycling Novelty.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 69, 27 September 1884, Page 4

The Latest 'Cycling Novelty.

The latest 'cycling development seems to bo tho "carrier." The weak point of the bicycle has always been that you can carry nothing larger than a pocket-book on it with comfort. To go on a tour without so much as a clean shirt is not congenial to everybody's taste. Tho carrier tricycle effectually gets over this difficulty. It is provided with a large box or basket, in which the tricyclist can carry a hundredweight and a half of luggage if he is so minded. It is already used, as most of us have noticed, by the Post-office and some of the newspapers. A member of the London Bicycle Club has been placing it to even more laudable purpose. He deposited in the basket his two youngest daughters ■with certain luggage. The young ladies and the luggage combined weighed 1141b. Such was the admirable constitution of the carrier tricycle and the member of the London Bicycle Club, that the whole party voyaged safely from London to Bath in three days. "The children," says the narrator of the event in the columns of the "Standard," "were greatly benefited by the change of air and scene." Whether the father was equally benefited is perhaps open to doubt. In any case here is a new opening for paterfamilias on his holiday. Instead of going to the mountain or the sea-shore, he can convey the younger members of the family about the roads of England on carrier tricycles. He is recommended to avoid " up grades," and to carry not only a small medicine chest, but a manual of surgery, and an appropriate assortment of surgical instruments and appliances.

At a large private dinner party in New York lately, tiny gilded' dust-pans did duty as menu cards. The bill of fare was painted in blue letters on the pan itself, with the guest's name on the handle.