Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-06-02
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A DRUNKEN MAN SENT UPIN A BALLOON.
The balloon ascension last evening caused o
large crowd of people to assemble. A furnace
to convey hot air to the balloon had been built,
and great wood fire was roaring underneath.
The balloon began to fill and soon rounded itself
into an immense oval A dish of alcohol was
placed underneath, and the smoke burnt out
and everything was ready to ''let 60. The
balloon was patched up affair Of hemp linen,
and the basket, little larger than market hand
basket, was fastened to it by small ropes. When
everything was in readiness, busting, tall,
thin man, with blonde moustache, who was
the proprietor Of the balloon, as we learned,
and who was supervising the affair, walked to
the back end of the lot and said, Come on,
Bill" and wretched, blear. eyed, drunken
man came staggering up, his hair and garments
dripping with the water that had been dashed
upon him to waken him from his drunken tor
por, and he mechanically came forward as
one whose ideas were confused, and, stag.
gerng up to the basket, put one foot in. -
The word was given, the ropes were loosened,
the poles dropped and the balloon shot into
the air, and the drunken man, standing up and
clinging to the ropes, waved his handkerchief
to the essening world below. As it was hot
air balloon of small Dimensions, it took its own
course. and came down anywhere as soon as
the hot air that upheld it was cooled aud ex-
hausted. Everybody expected him to drop in
the river, but it sailed over and beyond it, and
when it reached the Davenport bluff it began
TO descend quite rapidly just grazing the roof
of Otto Kings house. When over MIR. Claus
sens premises, Western avenue and Seventh
street near MIR, Kings, the balloonist, who
was hanging to the netting, let 30, and fell
through the roof of MIR. E. Claussens summer
house, and very badly iDjuring himself. No
bones were broken, but be was hurt internally,
apd may possibly die of the injuries received.
--RoeI szana Argus.
OILED Floors FOR KITCHENS. Il have for
several years followed the plan OF oiling uncar
scrubbing them, and iod it works we'll. You
can either oil or paint them, OF course, but l
consider the oil preferable, on the following
grounds -
It is cheaper. You can apply it yourself
You have not to wait for it to dry. 1t produces
pleasanter color. 1t doeSn t show tracks OF
dust, mud and such like, and therefore 1ioor
thus prepared does not require frequent mop
ping
following particulars -
1t looks better 1t does not require scrub
hing, which saves your back. 1t is never to be
mopped in hot water nor strong suds, which
saves YOUR hands Grease spots never hurt 1t,
which saves your temper.
10 prepare floor. take quantity OF the
cheapest and least offensive oil can secure, and
apply it with q common paint brush. [ put it
on smoothly, so that it will strike in equally all
over and yet not stand in spots on the surface.
| do this at night, after the evening work Is
finished, and find the place ready for use the
next morning. Of course It would not lDjure
the oiled surface itself to tread upon it at once,
but grease is liable to be tracked from 1t at
first. TO adjacent parts of the house. A new
coat of oil applied once in six months, or even
once q year sometimes is sufficient TO keep
floor in perfect order.
Ooe may thus prepare to great advantage
the floors Of kitchens, pantries, summer din
ing rooms, stairways and porticoes, closets, bath
rooms and laborers' bed rooms. 1t is also a
good plan 10 children's apartments, particularly
when you are training them to 90 their own
room work, to leave bare that end outside the
floor on which the bed stands, and to OIL II.
That portion OF the floor under the bed can be
easily kept free from dust, the sweepug5 can
be more readily removed, aud the children will
be afforded free scope for their duck like style
OF abutions, without danger TO the carpet
Western RWal.
A MuFF SToRY.-The Grass Valley (Cali-
fornia) Unicn of May 5th relates the following
Some young ladies and gentlemen who were
taking advantage Of the fine slelghiDg in the
interior of the State not long since, IN attend
ing donation, surprise or wedding party, or
something of the kind, were obliged to sit three
in seat One of the seats contained two gen
tIemen and one lady. The gentlemen CT course
would not allow the lady to take an exposed
scat-sbc therefore sat in the middle. As the
night was extremely cold, gentleman NO.
quietly passed his hand Remarkably small one.
by the Way into the lady muff. AS the nun
was not very capaclouS the iauS very qu'c''y ie,
moved one Of her hands from The same. In
few moments she felt movement on the other
side and found No. attempting to pass his
hand into the muff on that side. She then
onictlv withdrew her hand from the mutf aud
allowed him to do So What took place in the
muff aiterward she is unable TO say. But each
nt the gentlemen privately reported to small
slrole OF friends how warm y the lady had re
turned the pressure OF his hand in the mufI,
while the lady as privately reported to small
circle OF friends the magnificent sale she had
made Of both gentlemen.
Don't WANT TO BE HUNe.7Jonn bs&ar
having killed rival in his love anairs, was
tried and sentenced to death IN New of!eans
nat;t;nn far clemeucv was at once sent to thu
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