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182 A STRANGE PROPENSITY IN A PRINCE.
with the herculean feat performed by the present newsman
of the Hereford Journal, on the Ross circuit (Turner.)—
This man, about 33 years ago, when employed at the
Castle Mill, near that city, for a considerable sum, carried
three times round the town-hall, no less than twelve bushels
of wheat, (the customary measure of ten gallons) amount-
ing with the bags to the enormous weight of 9721b. and
upwards. The wheat was contained in three bags of pecu-
liar construction, one on each shoulder, the other thrown
across, and lashed together.
A STRANGE PROPENSITY IN A PRINCE.
[Translated from the French.]
Tdr Kirby’s Magazine of Remarkable Characters.
Prince Bathiani, a descendant from one of the first
families in Hungary ; but who was an inhabitant of Rome
in 1797, seems to have placed the highest pinnacle of glory
in possessing the most exact and minute ideas of the game
of. chess.'—If it were possible to realize the ideas of the
celebrated Mr. Addison, and, according to him, to dissect
and analyse the body of this Prince, nothing, it is presumed,
could be found in his head or his heart, but the models of
the various pieces made use of by chess-players, from the
Pawn to the King.—He sees, he hears ; he speaks of no-
thing but chess : chess is the first thoughts of his waking
hours and the last of his slumbers. All the motives that
move, agitate, or inflame other men, are to him lifeless
and inert. In vain (says M. Joseph Gorani) did I en-
deavour to detach him, but for a moment, from the pre-
cious chain of ideas which he caresses. The state of his
country, to which I wished to recall his recollection, was
so indifferent, that he made no answer to my observations ;
but pulling a small chess-board out of his pocket, assured
me it was made in London, by one of the ablest artificers
that England could boast of,”
Resembling
with the herculean feat performed by the present newsman
of the Hereford Journal, on the Ross circuit (Turner.)—
This man, about 33 years ago, when employed at the
Castle Mill, near that city, for a considerable sum, carried
three times round the town-hall, no less than twelve bushels
of wheat, (the customary measure of ten gallons) amount-
ing with the bags to the enormous weight of 9721b. and
upwards. The wheat was contained in three bags of pecu-
liar construction, one on each shoulder, the other thrown
across, and lashed together.
A STRANGE PROPENSITY IN A PRINCE.
[Translated from the French.]
Tdr Kirby’s Magazine of Remarkable Characters.
Prince Bathiani, a descendant from one of the first
families in Hungary ; but who was an inhabitant of Rome
in 1797, seems to have placed the highest pinnacle of glory
in possessing the most exact and minute ideas of the game
of. chess.'—If it were possible to realize the ideas of the
celebrated Mr. Addison, and, according to him, to dissect
and analyse the body of this Prince, nothing, it is presumed,
could be found in his head or his heart, but the models of
the various pieces made use of by chess-players, from the
Pawn to the King.—He sees, he hears ; he speaks of no-
thing but chess : chess is the first thoughts of his waking
hours and the last of his slumbers. All the motives that
move, agitate, or inflame other men, are to him lifeless
and inert. In vain (says M. Joseph Gorani) did I en-
deavour to detach him, but for a moment, from the pre-
cious chain of ideas which he caresses. The state of his
country, to which I wished to recall his recollection, was
so indifferent, that he made no answer to my observations ;
but pulling a small chess-board out of his pocket, assured
me it was made in London, by one of the ablest artificers
that England could boast of,”
Resembling