Last Saturday Mr. Lowe presided at the autumnal meet of
the London Bicycle Club at the Crystal Palace, where a certain number of races took place, after which Mr. Lowe distributed the prizes and made a speech in favour of hieyeles and bieycle races, taking credit for having encouraged the predecessor of the bicycle, the " dandy-horse " of George 'V.'s time, which was a saddled bar resting on two wheels, propelled by the rider, who ran with his feet upon the ground. He himself, be said, had once run a race, a mile in length, on a dandy-horse with her Majesty's Royal Mail, and had beaten it. In fact, in riding his dandy-horse or his bicycle, Mr. Lowe is evidently riding his hobby, and he does this as he does most other things, twice as fast as other men. He has been a "matchless" Chancellor of the Exchequer, and a vigorous Home Secretary; perhaps he is yet destined to win fame as a War Minister, by inventing a new arm of the Service, to be mounted on bicycles, and to combine the best part of the services of cavalry and of infantry, at a cost little greater than that of infantry alone.
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