Remarkable Rides

More remarkable rMes than tne fanious ride to York are upon record. - By lint of keeping constaiitlv in tlio emlille and having relay oí' horses all along the voail, the Prince de Lingo contrived to cover the miles betwean Vienna and Paris - over live tíundred, as t í 10 crow Üies - in six days. This performance was outdonc by the Count de Maintenay, wlio rodo.the wbole distance on one horse, without dismounting. ïhe Count, one oí' the most accomplishcd horsemen of his day, was attached te neffotiate í'or the hand of Mary Lonise, and wasdepnted to curry to li is impafient master ths formal consent oí' thoEinperoroí' Austria to the marriage, and the nnniature of the unwilhng bride-elect. To expedito his juuruey, six of the tinesl lmrses in the Imperial stables were dispatched to ditferent places on the route, that the Coimt migfat chango hismount; but the ilungarian roadster he bestrode at starting; went so tast and stayed so well that the rolays were not called into service, and the matrimonial messenger arrived at his destinfttion long bclbre bc wasexpöotcd, but so exhausted that he was fain la cnvve pennission to be seated in the Emperor'i preseuce as bo delivered up tbc all-important niissioii and repeated the Archduchess' message to her l'ulure lord. Ajeweled simU-box, sixiy thousand francs, and the good steed he had riddcn, rewarded the couut tbr bis expedition. The Coiuit de Ma'mienay's leat was repeated in 1874 by an Ausii-ian lieutonant, who andertook to ride his horsc, Caradoc, from Vionna to Paris in foarteen attys. lie viras unlucky enough to loose his way in the Black forest, and to waste seven buurs, and was 1'iirUier delayod by an accident to his horse; nevevtheleas ho accomplishod bis task wilh more tban two liours to spare.