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whore thoy'' wore Bwopt along l,y a stcntly
curtpnt' of"ar. a Hight Of fiftcon hours
brought thom into daylight, over nh unknown
ont tl,or grappling-iron ant1 tumbed out Of tho
car at tho risk Of tloir tiyop.. For soma tlmo
thoy wandered 10 tho lnidat OF strange and say-
ngo HconDryt till Mt last tuoy camo to tonantoBs
Ss so.ass SS witSoat T Tpornssoa %en e the he ason st
fsloi owt1ors cnmo in, thoy astonlehod tito trav-
ofors In turn by telling thom, M woll IA thoy
could. Tint thoy wore in Norway, near thu Town
Of ohrlattnnaand-about c5O leagues from
Tour,. At. Christiansnn1 tho ftenoh.
mon woro welcomed with elfuRion, and $4,000
francs woro subscribed for thom. On his return
with tho, balanca" Of. tho. oorroBpondanco,
Honor, aud a!so Knight OF tho Order Of sant
Olof. ":As for tho sixtythroo kloEram'uca, thoy
also cAnlo enfo to tho Tourn Post Oi0cc, having
beeu pickod up ut son by u Loith acliooncr at'd
carried to London. Altogethor. those M niSty.two
oyor tho rrusBian limos, tho city receiving nt tho
same tltuo ngront many in roturn brought BY
tho carr'or pigeons which had boen Hout forth Ill
them. -.
CHANGING, in conclusion, ut tho bnl1ooning Of
this country, VIC ind Drs ltlttonhouDo aud "hlr.
tlopkluson, OF phiadolphia,' sending up group
OF four hydrogen balloons In l78l-not going
themselves. In l703, NJ. 1}lhnchard mado aBcotlts
at Philadelphia. nntl NJ. Durnnt (of Jorsoy City,
hAU k4lSA Ill k0fDJ HGllL liuu& AA5IlD %4AfACHs
Now York, IN 1885, But ,lonneylrana was, and
In, the ba1ner State III this matter Of balooning;
and tho King Of tho American bnlloonists, aa alr.
Wiao may bo torlncd, Ia natiyo of tEat State.
Tho. e1porioneo of'afr. Wise has boon full of
pages OF Lis latclY~publishcI work, "Through
the Air. lilo. bngan his flights In 1885, from
Lebanon, LnuClstor; and othcr parts OF Ills Slate.
1Io tells uB how IN 1888, Lis balloon c1ploaod in
tho mir atid how ho canlo down nnppotted by tho
Sat,
Be1uen.ly similar accIdont occurred, aud ho
descended aafcly. Ho Says thnre If litt'o danger
In such CRISIS sinco tlos balloon gyratos aud
falls s}oWly-a very important fact III aorpBtat-
1snropo above tho Atlantic, orla,, upper eastcr-
" curront Of air, and aakod Congress- for It's did
but ho did not get it. In 1910, ho
propoaed Ito take 81. juan do Ulloa by
balloon. ;bombarlmcnt but waa not cn-
conragea to do 10. In 1851, ho again, a. l., but a
atlantic undertaking.. In July. 1860. nccoln-
panied by AlessrB. Hyde aud lalnountaino ho wns
waited III hiH balloon ''Attantio" from vt. Louis
eastward to Jeilersou County, III the Slate OF
same year Lamorntnino mud unldook ascendod
from WAtertowi,, in this State, md woro carried
oyor. tho lakes In bowildoring mannor, till thoy
reached a strange, snowy wilderness. moro than
15O' unsles north Of OTTAWA whero they wero
luckily rescued by Scotch family Of imlnf-
grants.
Tllo balloon Ia sill In ita non-ngc, mnHtorod
by tho clement in which itlina it's hoing, aud only
oboyug two movements OF the pilot, /. O., tho
throwing ont Of ballast that ratHca it, and tho
opening Of the gas-yalvo that brings it down.
Afr. Glaishor has no hopo that balloons coil ever
travel with certainty. III Franco, NJ. Dupuy De
1omo has beon encouraged by n Government aid
Of 0000 to attempt O balloon III tho 8hnpo Of a
fish, furnished with q sail for u holm, and II
aorow at tho stern worked by flvo or six man,
believing Buch: q machine could disregard
tho wind and bo. ablo to ctosB oceans.
But that contriyanco soenla 10 be
q failuro,. as would bc, very probably,
any attempt Of our countrynlen, htr. Wlse, to
steer his balloon for Europe, in reliance on the
and othors as D sort Of Gulf Stream in tho at
mosphoro. All tho asconts yot made tend to
show that tho wild clements Of tho mir can
neither bo: understood nor. provided against.
Tie sciontiBt rocognizo q fow rules, known long
ago, such aB TINT tho air grows thinner aud
coldcr with tile accent, but lfttio elso TINT might
not havo boon as easily fonnl out on tho moiill-
ment lRo Glaislor nro those that expect lcsB
flnm tho acinuco or practice Of halloouory.
Dnt tho balloon will still bo nsod rs means Of
popular amusement, liko pyrotcclncs, whiletlo
ac0ntitiu neronnuts, fow anil far botwcen, con-
tinuc to mako auch observations, at tho height
OF 8 or miles, aH may tend to explain Bomo OF
tllo changes Of tho atmosphere; like Mr.. Wise.
who, having lately made al ascent IN nia hnl-
loon, aud noticed tho warmth of certain strata,
gupposcs this may hayo bcon produced by Cog
gia's comet, aud mAy llaret in tu1n, caused tho
extraordinary rains aud watorspouts tLat hnre
dolusol 80 many parts Of this continent. Ney-
crtheless, long yoars must pass before A1loh OBJ
Bcryod facts can bo worth much oithor to atnos-
phorc geienco or tie art OF aorOstntiou.