UP IN A BALLOON. An Aeronnut's Account of His Voy- age Across the English Channel. {London Standard.) “We started from Hastings,” says Mr. Simmons, “under worable auspices, the wind being north- easterly at the time, 40,000 persons had gathered to witness our departure, a: o ascended they gave us a tremendous cheer. My fel low passenger, Mr. a photog: rapher, was so lost in admiration of the magnificent panorama of Hastings lving below us that I had to warn him that hie must be quick if he wished to obtain a photograph, and t ratus ready beach, the b ment (3:25) At 3:30 w | £1 e, Easti distinct nent ASV {1 il . 11 Sal, we iu the appa ver the it mo to an 3,000 feet “A remarkable appes by the reflect 7 SOT shannel or t At 10:25 than the famntly absoln tently, w direction rolling surf. ntil 1 ex I th unst,’ for it 1 to change and at last to vanish into ‘thin air.’ | passed rly another hour intently watching for Lig until ilar dark portion of horizon aught under Ur vit Seiivey 23 DTINE ¢ 1 & a eT 1 eagerly, g but a its form, gees nes We won) not possi iy l was land BYecanse no lights conld be seen this time, but at soistakable flicker in where | was gazin ‘Look along ma? finger as a tele What do von <all that? ‘A ligl exclaimed Mr. Small, I sad, ‘I belicve that Wi 0 * Was an un tact direction cone just beyond it again, If it turns out to »e 80, be prompt in doing everything 1 land on that sirip. I am taking to tell this, the line of coast was presented distineily to our view, every minute getting more distinct. The sea now began to ripple up sharply. Ten minutes and we were passing the «const line, and sharply darting toward the other sea beyond. ‘What sort of round are we coming down on? said fr. Small. ‘Bagged rocks and stone walls, I believe,’ I said. ‘Hold on firm. Out goes the grappling irons.” At first it would not hold, but soon it got wedged into a crevice in the rocks, giving us just tether enough to pass over the recipice and down on to the beach, here was just room for us between the receding tide and the rocks, and none to spare. flad we gone ten yards fur ther and half a second longer we should | have been in the sea. | “We heard whispering near us. In a few moments a man and a woman appeared, but would not at first ap- proach us, fearing, 1 suppose, we were | some monsters. Byand by they gained confidence, and then they told us we were on Cap de la Hogue, the extreme northwest point ¢f France. We then found that our informants were AM. Auguste Lavem, of Canton de Deau- mont, Arrondissement Manche and his wife. Thev most kindly helped us to empty the balloon of and gave 1&8 SUupDer and shelter for nignt NeXt norning f a clock, went to view the scene of our descent, and Mr. Small Pi api ed 1t We afterward proceeded to Cherbourg, and thence home . its contents, the we QLogy Fliminate the Ancient fiumbugs, 1*C. W.H" in N As an old teac other old teachers tatement, when ork set of iene Democrat. | ippeal to far Travelers f has hin panicky-lo ductor on a ranire Lincoln, Neb . the turned to ascertain king oaching We all the cause of the man's alarm. A peaceable looking tray eler sat quielly ar pet bag (they ¢ all everything grip-sacks beyond the Missouri) securely to the { in lis seat. with his fastened 1 ns of a small steel chain and a padlock. That morn ing the execution of the Fenian plotier 4 in Ireland had taken place The plainant was sure that the aforesaid traveler was on his way to Lincoln with a bag of dynamite, toblow up the capital of Nebraska The passengers were highly amused at the the innocen stranger aad his harmless carpet ba ha! ocrasioned The idea c the ear { siruck r as being a most novel and practi An owner's apprehensions of losing his property when he leaves the ear for meals or otherwise, are thereby rendered unnecessary. scat by Tea com y alarm t 1 of lockin Ones Da to feat wi 1 Cl one A Japanese Journal, A new official gazette, printed in the at Tokic. It Kampo, and consists printed pages. In addition to notifications, it provides its with an abstract of foreign The well. oTieial reandors news, a8 | is entitled of sigtoen * An Albany firm have utoses Sa soraps. They make wrought plate dove- tails for stove legs, and utilize from six The articles made are pieces of tin of peculiar shape, nsed by stove-wenders to make o perfect dovetail on stove bot toms, this puzpous. smal Cloorgin “hos a law requiring hotels that do not use real butter to display a “This house uses olevnargarine.” HOSPITABLE SENATORS. Cannot Afford te, (Ramsdell in Philadelphia Presa.) 1 cannot recall a dozen members of the senate who “entertain,” 1 remem- ber Senator Morton, always on erutehos or walking one of the groatest men, as I think, ever in publie life nnd never free from pain, who was sought hand He had close work to keep even with his He had to keep a carriage on of hia infirmity, and he had to live hotel, because he required 80 mune tention recoption in all his senatorin on two eanes on every eroaditors account at on He never gave ao al val he WAR SOU ue OCCASION. Hens RB to the sabe & The Moonshiner's Hoga, [Atlanta Constitution | The thoughtial oonshiiner for hat the hog guide for the toper is not the product of the «till than is this neefnl animal of } adanm of slops and refn Not i trove of fine P rkors wor 1 whet mithern cts ir rotite led past a registered distil and with a celerity which rivaled relatives in bible slory “ran down a steep place into the this hogs reminds one himself a % ony Provision some tines rey more 18 officers ond of nun ‘ ’ f “ in Bn 8 lery who A revenue officer standing by asked the driver. “Where did vy¢ buy them hogs?” On investigation it that the mountaineer in charge of their early eduaeation had maintained an naregistered distillery ix which would no doubt have escaped the vigilance of the “reve- pres,” but for the inconsiderate and un ‘. The Biggest Whisky Town, [New York Bun] Peoria, Ill, has only 40,000 inhab- itants, but there is one respect in which it is the biggest city in the land. There is no other from which the government receives so large an smount of internal revenue, Thirteen immense distilleries make this the contre of whisky mann- facture. The tax is 90 cents a gallon. The largest distillery is under contract to send every drop of its produces to France, to be used in the native wipes of that vige-clad country, : i AN EPISODE OF LIFE flow Longings for the Iufinite Ave Evolved Oat of the Chaos of the Commonplace, {Detroit Free Press] kerosene 1n a walked vr Of ¥ J wr ah out to Cros It many let the jug fall to the pavement. was, of , broken pleces, and, of conrre splashed over the When had been accomplished the man waited In two or th tos 4) citizen who ha hard at the spo “Ah! somebody broke a ju; “Yeon” “Oil CONrese into , the oil stone midewalk ree gunn todd all of + ene a 1, stared ym varn't there tthe Jug fall 7% il was wasted 72° "ri uty cons A Revetotienary Auecdote. {Washington Wor the many ' * 3 Mr. Mullet am ner nas. there is one res on. Mr. Mallet 1 154 i Ntate of the war ni after his arris America w He al b of as Intro (ien. W., tite with that great his seat, Mount * other fatter £ marks of tien. W.. when Le and Ar lone in the library, asked Ler, since ie 14 Ver his arrival, any man capable of writing the great conten’ Just then with Lis neunl nl { Frese On and « snch an nnd % f KROOW © ono, wy é CAgeTiyY rey "W who can that individnal “Cusar (said Mr. M.) who wrote own comment 2 The “Cornar, 0 sr, general is trae, but, 1 committed on ing this unhappy war, to ih and =o many that they falls recorded, and were ob) vion." it his own commentaries the nirocitios bolh rides, du have been =n cannot be fat better buried 4 wrote Water-Fower Applied by Wire {Landon Paper.) who has wdentiied lis transmission ¢f power name with the by electricity THE *“VAN-DEN-BELTZ'' FAMILY. An 014 Lady of Kew Brumsswieck (N. J.) Tells of a Relgoing Family's Antecodents, (“HR D. B” in Chicago Herald} The old lady sipped her tea compla- eently. “+ Corneel’ Vanderbilt's people.” went on, half retrospectively, "wera not, of course PeopLo that we wonlid been personally, and she smiled at her granddanghter “Of course 1 hear a great deal of 1 1s i she } wr rv ET id nave apt to know their ioings now, bu makes Bion Linstrating the 5 * power ol oney and tmpndenc i 1 {erald no inpres- on Vanderbiits fos iron Mistaken Charity. v 4 ¥ {iameRiin Lat % yas brad a race 1 nebber leave us, It wm an’ encour gineral shiftioss- it has said to de heads of fami- lies ‘Idle de shall be supported dn de poo’ superinten: person Goan retarn Ask Lim if men an’ woins come lool upon a fund right, au’ if dey demand deir allowance, instead asking for 11? Charity filled de kentry wid tramps Wh charity tried to undo its work de tramps began to barn ban an’ marder rity Las beggar “De charity beggargwho wil as added to de loaf sized ds noes, it } : of Detroit xt ' pileness Aan SOI y an’ you winter!” of after n have (10 ask ont de same y'ar? not poo’ GORY an on women an’ CNroOnuTragy i & chill'en to march resident street it tears upon brutes of prayers upon hardened n, an’ its money has gone feed people so vile an’ wicked dat de state's prison ached to receive em.” ebory its Funeral Time. {Texas Biftings.] ‘The Lampton {amily is in one respect one of the most unfortanate in Austin, They have lost by death five or six Famiry concluded a series of experiments ex- tonding over two months, the resulta of which appesr to possess no small practical value. At the distance of fourteen kilometres (that is to say eight miles and three-quarters English) through a wite only two millimetres thick, and utilizing a mountain stream at Vizille as # motive power to work a dynamo machine of his own invention, . Deprez wes lust night able to light 110 Edison lamps in the town hull st Grenoble. Large erowds were present, sod were grestly impressed. ‘x wr | in the ratio of the deaths, so fow weeks ago there was another death in the family, and the undertaker's as sistant called at the house. A small boy met him at the door, “Is your pa in?” “What do you want to see him about?” “1 want to ask him when the funeral will take place.” “You needn't see him then at all, if that is all youn want. I can tell yon that. Pa always buries us at 4 o'clock — IS IT WORTH WHILE®? {Jonquin Miller. } Is it worth while to jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rongh road of Hie# Is it worth while that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart that we war 0 the kuifet God pity us all in our pitiful strife. God pity us all as we forthe ench other; God pardon us all for the trivinphs we Trl When a fellow govs down ‘neath his load on the heather Piercod to the heart Klong, And mightior 4 4 bl words are keonor thas ’ ’ far { woe than wend 11 in this brief life's Journsy, : nto Lhe Los, + *, man new-lighted and the throb “4 UTAYS be enough Yer'saeg 10 cil known New r 3 th i the law ‘nitead Btates. it De of An Editor's Incapacity. Enquirer} offices there capacity to physical Ta in editorial aracter He loses hood to drink through his eves tes Of deal wit e people and facts of the day, The writ } laily vard- WIE fs aaa become rend 8 a closel chiar He i in : ion of fad ries an, y hus “teed adapted to etina. The oe, and lndeous we wanted h his delicate iran oy Gas Ye gril tyn pannn a 11 milage A rovernment 4 Inala « Yisson {Inter Qowan, § It is proposed to utilize the walter for the tricity. The plan is to put a cluster of ywerful lights upon the top of the A askington monument, which is 400 fect high, and this will give the city The experiment will bo interesting and valu- able, and onght to be encouraged. The idea of supplying motive Bowes for all New York by wire from Niagara falls has often been talked about, and the Potomac scheme, if sucoessful, wilh demonstrate its vrecticabilite
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