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
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distinct
nent
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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,
:
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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