The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-02-25

ness; at the next with fearful burst, all
would be flooded with blaze That was
more horrible than all else, and swoon-
ed again.
Once more awoke to sensibil1ty
81 think you are sick, my DEAR" said
the voice of Alexandra. "These airy voy-
ages sometimes makes the most expert
enced of us i'll. Lean your head upon me
there is no sickness where we CO."
We had left the thunder storm was
very cold, and saw the frost had settled
on the locks of the maniac.
"You are cold, said he; II was obliged
to rise little higher than I intended, in
order to get out Of the storm. The Their
mometer usually stands, at this latitude,
below zero will descend little now,
and we will sail along, parallel with the
earth, until we get out to sea, when 1t will
be safe to make our final ascent. It is not
SO cold over the ocean as over the earth at
the same height. Soon We shall bid fare
we'll to France and the world. We pass
ed over Algiers two hours ago. Now
Nantes is nearly under us. With forty
minutes we shall be at sea then, no, for
the upward fiightp' o5.sf S
For an hour longer lay at the bottom
of the car, as one in the midst of q trance.
After while, I began to reflect. Turn
ed my eyes upward, and gazed at the huge
dark side of the balloon. How quick the
descent would be, thought I, if an acct
dent should make rent in the silk /! =
Marie, come here, cried Alexandra,
exultingly: "ho for the sea and heaven !!
Farewell to France Adieu to
the earth!" Ca ri lsa r.a E9af
He removed the damask, and beheld
the machine sweep off the shore, and
away to the seaP' re-"
Now to descend would be death. But
then death all along had been certain, and
the thought of it had lost, its bitterness
for me- No terror could brighten me now
The sooner, thought I, that the catastrophe
comes, the better. The machine did not
swing now. She was riding'in the still
air that prevails at sunset. | looked up
ward again, as / had some moments be-
fore heard a strange tldttering sound from
the upper part of the balloon There 1
saw thin stream of issuing from the side
of the canvass The next moment the
upper end of one of the ropes fell down.
1t had been burnt in twain and was blaz-
ing. ,6.i.ffg g5d5a agldt ..2la sie
| "Alexandre," said I, strangely calm,
"the air-shlp is on fire !" gtu
"Ha, ha, hat he laughed. ION fire !?
My beautiful balloon on fire? Never =
she is indestructible. Fire cannot injure
her. Why, my love, she out-rode the light
nings, They. pierced her through and
through, and yet she is not injnred-she
is spirit p a al a5a
| As he ceased speaking, there was sound
of the escaping gas; the vast silken globe
collapsed, and the car, which had been
for several minutes settling, commenced
| its fearful descent perpendicularly toward
the sea Faster and faster it sped, faster
and faster, until b Sc 81
Just here Maria, sprang from her seat
beside me, and with the words, aye, by
the-by, must show you the steps of that
new ballet, began pirouting up and down
the graveled walk. / was dumbfounded;
saw instantly that had been paying my
addresses to an insane girl, and / got out
of that garden second quicker than I
went in. Upon inquiry learned that
Marie had read the accounts of the aerial
voyages of Aontgolier, Pilatre de Refers
! D'Alandis, and, in fact, of verybedy else
who had made any, and had afterwards
brooded over the subject of @rostation
until she became crazed bs2h