The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-09-05 00:00:00

ADVENTUROUS LADS.

A series of romantic adventures has just befell,*
two Engli
tosh
ran away from
ithniteirpr,hi.mini,e,iledin
tt.h.eipu.ron‘i•ein,cestr..fiiiirawf}"ikui
among the beauties of Alpine kicellerY• They had
mantel
mush ered themselves sufficiently provided for
Swiss excursion. All went well until Genria we„
readied, and here they met their finit misfortune, for
the greater portion of the contents of theirconmse
purse WIWI stolen. 'they did not, however, &hand,
their
wrote to their friend', for the whew.% ithal
' replenish their exchequer. They called in %sin h.,
reply at the post.olliee day after day, Until their
tfuhreidsßwrieu.rehcominmpb.letelyy for and thlelneairem.pittil
their appeal was not very encouraging, for they isdy
remired five francs. Vhen they found theruselie,
second time pennilese, and had given tip all hope of
hearing from home, they came to the bold resolution if taking to the woods, and actually lived for sores
time /a Robinson Criosoe in the vast forest .4
Konitz, near the Swiss capital. They were seen be
several peasants, who notifieti the fact of their Reid savage state to the police, and a regular expedition
for their recovery WWI organised. They were fund
in an almost impenetrable rem,, in the wisele, seemingly none the worse for their primitive mode
of life, and were reaniducted to Berne, one .4 then
still retaining a espy id "lloileker" in Lk hod. They have shim been sent home by the Britkh Nee. sentative at Berne.

A FLYING 11ACIIINE.
Death, according to Horace, pursue: the Flying Hat
We hope the enterprising person who has constructed a
flying machine, with the help of which he purposes ta
soar from Dover to Cabe+ awl back again, will cousider
well the Horatian warning before he wings his way. It
is not so long since a poor fellow in Linden, who called
huuself the Flying Man, tried some 1,14 experimunts
which only landed him on the way in dusty death. Ne
doubt there is aoinetiing in the principle of the flyiec
machine which may one day be developed and turnol
practical account. !set there will be • good MIMI' value,
we fear, before anything is ilia& of that new and mn•ibls
theory
Yateof iiinacyitinogn,ulaacnill""wchicwhhisochgrll;eN:larcrititjthst°
Duke of Argyle favourably approve!. The old wee wee to construct something lighter than the air—as if the swat;
were lighter than the air he throbs through. rie,e; ',-
principle is to secure and apply by mei, tet.rii:o:.7l
..w.oLion the proportionate amount
.of force h
rmies the he's y wild swan through thehA whic
t „mow,
The difficulty, as yet, is to aet at Me war of dojo • this.
A man out West devise•l it flying niachins,,tie, zu,kl
principles, and spent years in its conatructien.x.tesiw
or root was spared, and the machine was aheetetety
perfect. but for one defect. .1i the c•instrui•tor explained.
' the pesky thing wouldn't fly." We do no knew that this is the worst defect such It piece of mechabisin coda
have. If the machine which is expecte4 to whisk it.
maker from Dover across the channel, round the Calais
lighthouse, and back should refuse to mar an inch Osseo English ground, the maker, at least, is xate at home. But
what if it flounders about for a few hundred yards, and
theta deavuds into the deep, or c 1111 l es flappingagainstthe
cliffs! Benvenuto Cellini persuaded mine people that hi
had made a machine by which he could fly front a hie,
town ; but he took care not to put the eugiue to any
public test. Let our new flying 1111.11 hr cautiou, uteitit
preeuing histrenibling wing to take his flight he knows
not wtuther.