Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-11
UP In A BALLOON.
Miss Wise's Account Of Her Last Assem-
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st. Louis Post

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sa Miss Lizzie Ihling Wise, the we'll
known lady ;cronat and niece Of Prof.
Wise, made a balloon ascension yes
terday from Bodeman's grove in the
presence of a large mum Der ofuspecta-
tors. a The day was lovely and under
the favorable conditions the trip was in
every way a success. An Eue1aing Post
reporter met Miss Wise this morning,
and to him she gave in her own language
the following account of her adventures:
I made my twenty-first aerial voyage
yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock, sharp
time, Il am always punctual,) from
Bodemans garden. From the nature
of the ground, my uncle, Prof John
Wise. sent me up with an impetus
sufficient to skip all surrounding OBJ
structions. It was a glorious start and
| a glorious sight. [ rose rapidly to q
helghth of seven thousand feet, aneriod
barometer measure. At that altitude
the great western metropolis shranks
into village dimensions, while, at the
same time the exhilarating atmosphere
moved my blood into activity and ex-
banded my thinking faculties to make
me feel like aqueen-bee lowering over
q vast hive-indeed the sOnorous hum
that came up to me in waves of sound
made me think that the, world below
was really q hive, if not of bees, GER
tainly Of buzzing men, women and
Children Oh! how I wished T could
stay UP there always; | prayed to the
great God in devout thankfulness for
being SO good to me as to lift me up so
high above the dust and toll ofearth be-
low. 1t always makes me pray When I
get up where deep solitude surrounds
me and microscopic life swarms and
buzzes below me. But i had another
duty imposing. What Of the air! The
sunbeams stung like needles; [ can
only describe the sensation as q pleas
ant pain, if there is such a thing. My
thermometer ranged So at the start;
at 1000 feet it marked 76. What APP
peared strange to me was the frigid
GOODNESS penetrating the bottom of my
car. At that altitude, in d cloudless
sky, it appears that in shadow tits eK-
tremely cold while under the suns rays
1T is extremely warm. AS the balloon
turned round and round one side of
me was warm and the other cold, and
tiliS VIC law VI COIll pCiic1olOlI Ndo u Wy
exempllned in fact. But [ am making
my narrative too long for a short trip.
The Amazon had been smoking its pipe
for half an hour, !, e., the expanded
gas was finding its way from the mouth
of the balloon in white vapor, and
gravity was gaining on levity The
Amazon began to slide down an inclined
plane into a. lovely esplanade of st.
Louis, as it were, but somehow or
other the great city was sliding off its
moorings, and instead Of it's being close !
by it went northeastward nine miles, I
and left me in a beautiful, novelsur-
rounding near the Gravois road. On
my descent every point Of the compass
was represented with a human motion
to a common center, and IN a few
moments | was surrounded by. a host
of generous friends. They took hold
of my cable tow and moored me over
the Gravois road, where | bundled up
my arial traps, and soon found my way
back to Bodeman's garden. My way
back | toiled as stupidity as my way out
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