RIDE FROM VIENNA TO PARIS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 191, 19 January 1875, Page 3

RIDE FROM VIENNA TO PARIS.

Count Zubowitz, an Austrian lieutenant, who made a heavy bet that he would ride from Vienna to Paris on one horse in fifteen days, arrived at the appointed goal, the Barriere du Tione, j ist twelve minute? within the time, Two members of the Jockey Club rode out to meet him as far as Vincennes, and escorted him into Paris, riding several yards behind while he went along at a hand gallop, his watch telling him that he had the game in his hands. He wore a loose grey dress, a flexible broad beaver hat, and Hessian boots. He is a good-looking man of thirty, compactly built, rather undersized, and with a neat black beard. His steed, a handsome black horse, showed no signs of fatigue. At the barrier, several Austrian gentlemen, one of them being a member of the Legation, were waiting to receive him. There was a group of, perhaps, 2000 persons attracted by the news of his coming, and some friendly cheers for Austria and Hungary were raised. The count got into a carriage sent by the Austrian Embassy, and went to the Grande Hotel. The Jockey Club will give him a banquet. The bets on the event exceed, it is said, two hundred thousand pounds. But for a slight accident to his horse, which is of Hungarian breed and of average size, he would have arrived a day sooner. The horse did not appear exhausted by its long journey.