Is Bicycle Riding Healthy?

To no class of men, pcrhaps is bicycle riding more beneficial than to those who lead sedentary occupations in the manifold walk of life - apprentices, clerks, stndents, business men, professional men, physicians, teachers, clergymen, and others. If such find their system weakened and "run down" by overwork, anxiety, or other causes, and are not incapable of riding a bicycle, tbey will flnd that its use, instead of being injurious.will give them strengtb, tone, and a maaly vigor f rom head 1 foot; in short, health. This statement could be substantiated by thousands of bicycle riders, who hare found to their surprise and gratiücation, that this exercise in the sun and air - the two greatest of tonica- instead of merely developing tce calves of their legs, has giren them health and strength throughout the body. A like result may doubtless be attained in other ways, as by horseback riding, yachting, boating, or canoeing. But all cannot afford these, or live where such exercises are convement, without an interferencewith their regular work. The bicycle adds to the list of known agencies in obtaining and keeping health. He is a more tlian ordinary philosopher who, on every walk taken for hualth's sake, can forget that his walk is a duty effert. But with a bicycle the greater range of objects within easy reach offers a wide and varying field for observation. The writer has found his runs through the State made far more interestingand beneficial by studying the histary, the topography, and the agricultural and manufacturiug industries of the several municipalities visited. There is no easier aad better way of getting acquainted with the growth aud possibilities of the old Commonwealth. The artist, tlm botanist, ornithologist, the oologist, md othsr specialists, will tind that the bicycle gives hitherto unknown advantages in the out-of-doorpursuitof their studies, - A Bicycle Tour in England and Wales. The re-enf orcement of the auchorage and the renewal of the suspended superstructure of the Niágara suspension bridge, without a moment's interruption of trame, rank as one of the most prominent f eats of modern engineering, and the fact that, with a slight exception, the wires forming the cables and suspendere were found by the inspecting engineers unimpaired, is most significant and reassuring. They had been engagi d for a long time, and one evening were reading the paper together. "Look, love," he exclaimed, "only lifteen dollars for a suit of clothes!" "Is it a wedding suit ?" she asked, lookj ing naively at her lover. "Oh no," he answered; "it is a business suit." "Well, I nieant business," she replied. A lady onc said to Dr. Spencer: "My dar doctor, why do you work so hard ? you are always at it - nigtat and day; you give yourself no respite." "My dear madame," said the pastor, "if a boat is notsailing up stream she is floating down stream. There is no standing ïtill in religioa Belgium promise to becoine the great industrial teacher of Europe. Many foreigners are now attending ber schools. She has 49 technical schools, 32 industrial schools, and a higher commercial school - all receiving funds annually from the State. The treasure-house of a man's life is bis heart; and he who has nothing there is poverty-stricken, though he roll in gold; while he who has a good deal there is rich, whether he has a roof over his head or not. Every square yard of the sun's surface is reckoned to give out, hourly, more heat than can be got by burning six tons of coal. A reporter touchingly alludes to a man who was "killed and otherwiseinsured." It is reported from London that King Kalakua, of the Sandwich Islands, is endeavoring, while in Europe, to seïl liis kingdoii; that it no longer yields him a revenue sufflcient for liis support, and he is anxious to dispose of it, crown and all, to the highest bidder.