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April 14 at lOi o'clock. 

 April 18 at lOi o'clock. 



NIGHT SKY FOR APRIL (Second Map of Pair), 



ShoTring the heavens as thoy appear at the following hotu's : — 



April 21 at 10 o'clock. I 



April 25 at 9| o'clock. | 



April 29 at 9| o'clock. 

 May 1 at 9i o'clock. 



TRICYCLES IN 1885. 



By John Browning. 



[Chairman of the London Tricycle Clul.) 

 HOW TO SHELTER A TRICYCLE. 



THE best method of sheltering a tricycle i.s a matter of 

 consequence to everyone who possesses a machine. 

 Most persons, who have no stable or outhouse, put their 

 tricycle up at the nearest livery-stables. This is expensive 

 and inconvenient, and the machine is liable to injury from 

 carelessness or ignorance on the part of the stablemen or 

 visitors to the stables. I have also known machines to 



suffer much damage in such places from the effects of 

 damp, either rising from the ground or thrown about in 

 washing the floor of the stable, or the vehicles kept in it. 



When the owner of a machine lives in a terrace house 

 in a town or the suburbs, he frequently gets a narrow-gauge 

 machine like the Coventry Rotary or a collapsible machine 

 of some kind, the forms of which are too numerous to 

 mention, but the first-named machine has the disadvantage 

 of being a single-driver, and collapsible machines, like all 

 make-shift contrivances, seldom work well and give 

 satisfaction to their possessors long together, though a 

 few very careful riders get on pretty well with them. 

 There are, however, many tricyclists living in detached 



