The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-03-31
THE DAILY DISPATCH,
SATURDAY MORNING MARCH 81 1885.
EXTRAORDINARY FLYING MACHINE.


We find the following curious and interest
ing statement in the Paris Patr,e: 1.-THE A
cademy of Sciences is good deal interested |
by the invention of flying Machine, by |
Don Diego de Salamanca. With this ma
chine Don Diegos daughter Rosaura, rose
in the air sometime ago at Madrid, to the |
great establishment OF the Spaniards, who are |
but little accustomed to this sort of miracle. |
Don Diego de Salamanca and his daughter |
is about TO arrive at Paris to show the eiiects |
of his marvellous invention. The machine
is very simple, it consists in a case two feet
long, and one foot wide, adapted to bana
of Heather round the waist buckled oehind
The two iron rods fastened to the case sup
port small piece fwood, on wicn the feet
repose. The case contains SIMPLE and IN
genious mechanism, similar to that EN-
pIoyed to set an attenuation in motion.
The mechanism is worked by means of a
handle. 1t sets in work two large wings ten
feet long, made of very thin caoutchouc, COW
cred with feathers; and the wings may be so
worked as to procure verticle, perpendicular
or horizontal flying. The number of turns
given To the handle determines the height to
which il is desired to go.
The handle has to be turned every quarter
of league to requisite the distance, the ope-
ration of turning lasts a minute. Horizontal
flying is the most difficult. The wings beat
the air like oars of a boat, or rather as the
feet of swan when it swims. BY means OF
this curious machine a man can 60 almost as
rapidly us q carrier pigeon from the Hotel de
Vile to the Arc de Tr.0mphe de PEtolle in
eight minutes, and in half an hour to Yer
sailles. The experiments which will be made
in Paris. will be on small scale, and the
flights of Don Diego will not extend beyond
the department of the Seine; but at later Pc
Rod he proposes to go to Lyons, Bordeaux
Toulouse, Marselles and Tours, and to take
z 4 l. St,ct
can travel quicker than by rail. TIE price
of each machine will not exceed 1200f for
men, and l000f. for women. If the expert
ment succeeds, Don Diego will take out pa
tent. and make the sale of the machines a
branch of commerce. Although greatly as
tonished at this new invention several mem
bers of the academy have pointed out the in
convenience of bringing it into general USE
Ia point of fact, there will be no security for
any one, if by the aid of such machine all
our usages aud customs be overthrOwn, and
if malefactors can fly on the roofs of houses,
afterwards get into apartments and commit
all sorts of depreciation. 1t will be very
nous to see policemen in France or England
pursuing thieves in the air. in order TO lock
them up on earth. 1t appears that 1855
promises us all sorts of marves."
A HEARTFELT SENTIMENT 1NOPPORTUSE-
LY ExPREssED.-Al large and brilliant party
was given III u ldSHlOIaUlS ClTClc lew
weeks since, not hundred miles from our
metropolis, and the festivities were kept up
to 50 late an hour that the fair hostess BIZ.
came completely wearied out. Some fifteen
minutes after the lady supposed the last of
the guests had left, she walked into the sup
per room, where the gas had been turned
down, and gave vent to her weared spirit by
calculating, Thank God, they are al! stuffed
and gone!' Not quite ALL" squeaked
voice, 81 have returned TO find en- earring
which suppose l dropped while at the sup
per table" The hostesss chagrin can be
better imagined than described when on
turning round she discovered one fEer near
est fashionable neighbOrs !-B0StOH paper.
GIVE 1T UP-An old liquor drinker, who
had Deen patroniZing one drinking house for
the last eight years, gave this as his reason
for Joining the Sons of Temperance, in the
presence OF several persons: There" said
he, pointing to the saloon, sis drinking es-
Enlistment that / have been trying to drink
out for these eight years, and, finding it i'm
possible, have concluded to withdraw from
the field, and try lake Michigan"
A LARGE CLAIM.-A lady whose intellect is
supposed to be unsettled, and who protests
to oTn the State House and grounds, visited
the Senate Chamber on Saturday morning
and made her annual demand for payment
of rent. She was not as vehement as on for
mer occasions but assumed an air of injured
innocence.-Boston Tel.