Of Interest To Cyclists

The status of tlie bicycle while being ridden upon the highways, has been decided by the supreme court to be the same as that of any vehicle. The case which brought out the decisión is as follows : Hon. H. H. Hinds, of Stanton, while riding a wheel down a hill upon a footpath, carne up behind a young girl, struck her, and she was severely injured. Her parents brought suit for damages, but the Montcalm circuit judge directed a verdict for the int upon the ground that it was not shown he was guilty of negligence. An appeal was taken to the supreine court, and Justice Grant has handed down an opinión reversing the finding of the court below. The court holds that a bicycle is a vehicle, and the same laws must apply as to other vehicles. The defendant claimed that the accident was caused by his wheel striking a stone or other obstacle. The court holds that this is not sufficient. It is a rule of the road that if one vehicle attempts to pass another going in the sanie direction, the driver of the first is responsible for all damages that may occur because the peril is one of lus own creation, and oue which the driver of the second vehicle has forced upon him. The court holds that Hinds, by riding down a narrow path at the rate of flve or six miles per hour, pedestrians being in front of him, was not exercising due care. Lo, the poor Indian is rapidly passing íuvay. The buffalo, mighty bison of the plains, is almost an extinct species. All efforts to preserve and increase them have failed. The only herd now known to exist is the government's small herd iu Yellowstone Park and the one with Buffalo Bill's Wild West, together with one hundred Indians. To the grandchildren of the present generation the Indian and the bufl'alo will both be but little more than a traditión.