Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-12

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.inS Post groups together the following
facts concerning ballooning:
Balpens svefe unhsard of before
1866. cavendish then discovered the
extraordinary lightness Of hydrogen
gas, and in 1882 the first successful
balloon ascent was made from Lyons,
in France. This balloon was one hun
|1sed aud ten feet in circpmferen0G and
sss gA6d five hndSed p0nnd Is Don |
after balloons we're Sent up at Paris,
and again at Lyons, with animals at
tached; but it was not until N ovemberI
Of the same Year that any experimenter
swassbsld enough 10 risk himself in a 1
balloon. On the 21st Of November,
1882, the Marquis d'Arlandes ana M. |
Pilatre de Rozier made I'm ascent Of |
about three thousand feet, but returned
to the earth in about half an hour.
Immediately number Of adveGtuf Gus. !
Frenchmen went into amateur Balloon
ing, among them the Duke Of Orleans,
and in 1854 two Americans, DR.. John
Jeffries and MIR. Blanchard, Of Boston,
crossed the channel at Dover and landed
in the fores. of Guinnes. T a .s.
In 1875, the ballooning mania re-
ceived check. Mr.. Rozier, who
first made balloon ascension, was
makingain June, 1885, balloon ey-s
cursicn from England to France, when.
BY soms a1Ne ~ the ali1c. cSn ghta
on fire, and the unfo@p Ste ypyagers
were precipitated on ~ otNS below.
During the French Hevolution of 1900,
balloons were psed toinspect the move
ments Of tie hostile troups, ard in
1904 al ascent was made for purely
sele-tifc objects, by Messrs. Lussac
and Bict. In 1885, NJ. 4 Blanchard
made the first balloon ascension on
record in thisacity. 81 Since that time
various experimellters have essayed to
mount the air, some meeting the fate
Of Icarus, others enjoying greater or
less success. iss
In thisscountry the most famous of
the, intrepid @ronauts''--that is what
they are usually called in the newspa-
pers-have been Mr.. Blanchard, who
died in 1869, after having made sixty
six ascents /; Mrs. Blanchard, his wife,
who made ssher last ascension from
Pa.is in 1911, when her balloon took
fire from some fireworks, she foolishly
took Up with her, and she was dashed
to the earth and killed NJ. Petin, M
GODDARD, and Messrs. Wise, Green, La.
Mountain, eager, Carlincourt and
Thurston, the latter Of whom met
sad fate On. his last voyage, but few
months since. There have also been,
from time to time, various aronaltic
experiments developing themselves in
parachutes, flying ships, &c. Perhaps
the most remarkable Of these was the.
Flying Ship invented and made. by
Thomas Robjohn, now a successful
organ builder Of this city. This curi-a
Gus vessel exhibited great ingenuity in
its construction, and excited considera-
bic public attention some ten years
age; it, however, failed to prove prac-'
ticaily successful, and the ingenious
inventor added another to the list of
@ronautic navigators-they who r;sked
and lost Their fortunes for their airy
theory. sss IS ea5s,ss ssa, rs .sa.sa
TEMPLE OF DIANA OF THE EpHEs1ASs.s
This temple was built, as Pliny says,
on soft foundation, to guard against
the shocks Of earthquakes. The foun-
dalton, therefore, was laid IN swamp
wool and charcoal were interposed to
absorb the wet and the arches from a
subterranean labyrinth m which water,
stagnates all which is so at the pres
ent day. The superstructure bears all
the evidence Of an edi6ce which was
destroyed eight times and took two hun
.dred and eighty years in building and
rebuilding. Itnow consists Of several
walls Of immense blocks Of marble ;;
the fronts ofswhich areperforated filth
small cavities into which were sunk
the shanks Of the brass and silver
plates with which the. walls v ere faced.
In several places where the walls have
fallen they have exposed cornices and
mepldipgs Ct a former edifce, against
which the newer wall had been built up.
Some Of the vast porphyry pillars, which
faced the front portico, still lie pros
trate before it; but others were brought
'6y Constantine to his new city Of Con-
stantinople. heshesthen, temple was
dilapidatcd, to build the christian
church Of Santa Sophia, in which these
pillars are again become the great sup
port Of an anti Christian edifce. But
the most interesting circumstance Of
this building to me is the great illustra-
ton it gives to the Acts Of the Apos-
stles.g Here is the place where St. Paul
excited the commotion among the sill
yer and bfass.smiths, who worked for
the temple, and over the way vas the
theatre, into which the people rushed,
carrying with them Cajus and .Aristar-
chus, iPaul's companions. Hence they
had full view Of the magnificent
front Of the temple, which they points
Jedaout as that 4 which all Asia wor-
shippeth," and in their enthusiasm
they c.ied out, ssGreat is Diana Of the
Ephesians = to whom such q temple
belonged. Porter. I'LL sIslsa
WELL AND Spring CLEAN1NG.-As1
autumn is approaching, we earnestly
advise all persons who use well and
spring water, to have both wells and