Blind Men On Wheels

There are blind naturalists, blind historians, blind men of scienee, blind musicians, and now blind men have taken to cycling as a ineans of reereation. It was a strange sight in the city to see about eighteen of the students of the Royal normal college for the blind in upper Norwood leav the Man.sion house upon tricycles on a visit to Kirming'ham, where the earl of Dudley was to opon a new institution for the sightless. The party were mounted upon tandem machines, four or flve of them bcin liuked togfether so as to form two proeessions of reasonable length. The leader of each was possessed of the ordinary powers of visión, but all the rest were blind. After paying their respects to the lord mayor, who greeted them kindly and wished them a safe and happy journey, the students merrily set out on their trip and pedaled themselves along1 Cheapside in sprightly fashion. This is, perhaps, the first time on record where a bami of blind persons have scourcd the country on cycles. Milton's "stand and wait" theory is noble poetry, but it is out of fashion in real Ufe, so far as concerns the blind.