CUBIOSITIES OP VbIOCIPBDIN'G. — Since the groat impulse given to the manufacture of velocipedes by their universal adoption throughout Europe, innumerable improvements have been patented, and one would have thought the genius of inventors was almost exhausted. We hea?, however, from France and Geneva of two startling novelties. A ]?reuchman, Monsieur Bluin, has adapted to his velocipede a pair of sails, and in 9, fair wind skims along like a terrestrial nautilus, at a rate exceeding the greatest speed hitherto attained with the ordinary vehicle propelled by the feet; while at Gren,eVa, an ingenious musical bos maker has actually constructed a "velocipede a musique." "We may expect soon to see an organ-grinder riding on his own instrument, which will singularly complicate tho duties of the unfortunate policeman whom Mr Babbage may commission to arrestthe recalcitrant musician.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 88, 16 October 1869, Page 6
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