The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-06

the locality beneath, and there was no
sound to break the stiffness but tina.
occasioned by the shaking Of the car
and the rustling of the silk overhead,
which at intervals seemed to indicate
that the great monster had suddenly
exploded. As the balloon rose and fell
In the air towards daybreak they de-.
scribe the sun as appearing to rise and
set two or three times in the horizon.
The highest altitude wei attained
was accomplished by Gay Lussac, who
assembled more than four and a quarter
miles above the level of the sea, where
he found the air to be twice as thin as
it is at the surface of the earth. As
one rises in the air it is found that the
temperature falls with a constantly in
creasing graduation, while the humidity
Of the upper strate is les than that Of the
lower. The suffering from cold and the
difficulty of breathing in these lofty alti.
tudes are said to be very intense, the pulse
and respiration being much quickened,
and the throat becoming very parched.
There have been instances when the
frail material of which balloons are
made has been torn to pieces by the
force Of the wind, and tho wonder is
that this does not occur more frequent
ly. 1t makes no difference to the
aeronaut, so far as his own sensations
are concerned, whether he floats in a
dead calm or is whirled along by a tor
nado; and unless he is able to measure
his progress by observation of the
objects below, he can not tell whether
he is moving or not.
The project of crossing the Atlantic
in a balloon is revived at intervals, but
it never can be done by means of any
agency now in existence, unless it
should be found possible to avail our
selves of the currents of air that may
happen to set in the right direction. 1t
would be a delightful thing to take pas
sage on a pleasant June morning in an
aerial car, Furnished with all the
modern conveniences," and be waited
along at the rate of sixty or seventy
miles an hour, looking down from our
serene height upon the slow-plodding
steamers, and landing in the course Of
a few days on the shores of old En-
gland, without having experienced any
of the pains or perils OF the tumultuous
sea. But all of this is a dream which
none of us will probably live to see re-
allied. And yet it is not impossible
that the fair vision may yet become a
reality. Things are now familiar to us
all which, a few years ago, would have
been regarded as a thousand times
more ~impracticable than the crossing
of the ocean in some sort of aerial con-
veyance.
Suppose that the men who founded
this Republic had been told that in the
course of a hundred years the words
which their children spoke in the priva-
cy of an office here in New York would
be instantly reproduced in Chicago,
and responded to at once, and that,
without any speaking at all, the mes
sage which one of our merchants wished
to convey to his correspondent in Lon
don would be, carried along the deep
bed of the ocean and delivered in an
hour or two to the person for whom it
was designed, would not all this have
been treated as the idlest dream that
ever entered the brain of manp Among
the things which never a be done we
should not be disposed to include the
c%ircling of the globe through the me-
dunn of the air. 1t is evident that the
force which propels a tlying-machine
must be competent to sustain it in the
air, and all that is requisite is to find
some wayof creating and storing power
enough to carry the machine to its des-
tination, adjusting the weight and the
propelling power in due proportion, as
is done in the case of the bird, and the
problem is solved.
We are able to-day to store up an i'm.
mense amount of electric force in a
very small compass, and use it for the
purpose of locomotion on land and who
can say that this same electric power
may not be applied to the navigation
of the ARP can perceive of a great
machine of lustrous aluminium, the
lightest and n of the toughest of
metals, lance-shaped and powerful
enough to pierce the air. let the cur
rent set as It may, with it's compact
reservoir of electricity, in the year Of
grace 1886, shooting through the clouds
like a meteor, coming and going with
mails and passengers between the old
world and the new, and exciting no
more wonder and surprise than u an.
cestors would have felt if they had sud.
denly 9 a locomotive with its mighty
train enter the railway station, or one
Of our gigantic ocean steamers deposit
its living freight at the dock.-M Y.
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