Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-05-22
UP IN A BALLOON.
Things Seen and Experienced While
Flying Through the Clouds.

Things Seen and Experienced While
Flying Through the Clouds.
10 some extent rain retardS upward prog
ress, but have made a number of ascen-
sions in the face of storms, writes Prof.
King in the Nashville American. Snow
however, is much more of an obstacle. and
IN short time will accumulate upon the
top OF the balloon sufficiently to drive it to
the earth. The clouds are sometimes as
much as three thousand feet from top to
bottom when the sky is entirely overcast.
Often even above such a body of cloud NAV
be seen smaller clouds with clear spaces in
between. When within one Of these spaces
the sensation is that of being in vault
With the solid, snowy clouds below you
and the smaller clouds below you being by
perspective brought close around, it ap-
pears as If you were in cavern.
l have been above the clouds during a
snow-storm, and the light of the moon
shining so brightly through the rarified air
produced an illumination rather SUPER
natural have very frequently passed
through frozen clouds. This s where yapor
has fallen below the freezing point and
been congealed into a substance resembling
hour in appearance. This falls, and in
doing so reaches a higher temperature,
where the small particles are aggregated
into flakes of snow.
Some clouds, however, present very much
the appearance of vail, and objects on the
earth can be distinctly discerned from a po-
sition above them
have never known of an instance in
which balloon was hit by lightning. The
thunder does not make perceptibly great
er noise than when you are on the ground.
The sound proceeds from the upper LAYERS
of clouds, as does also the rain; and in
many cases, when the lower strata appear
very violent, perfect quiet there reigns, ex-
cept for such motion as is produced by the
rain falling through from above The up
per currents are the most active, and cy-
clone or wild storm is perhaps produced
according as those upper currents descend
TO or remain above the earth
Romantic Ceremony by which Two Lives
Were Welded Into One.
The Lithonia (Ga.) Herald tells of novel
and amusing marriage that was solemnized
IN that city. The contracting parties were
both colored, and as the parents of Ella
Usher objected to her entering the marriage
state the groom, Andrew Williams, whose
heart was overfowing with love for the
fair Ella, obtained her consent and they
ran away. In the afternoon about 30 the
couple perched themselves on a log by the
Academy branch and were there made one
The ceremony was performed by Judge
James r George, N. p, in his beautiful
and impressive style. We regret that we
are unable TO give our readers the ceremony
in full, but here is part Of it:
ANDREW and Ella, you have met here and
perched yourselves upon this log by the side
of the calm but frozen waters of this famous
and historic Academy branch; under the
blue canopy of heaven ard surrounded by
the grand old trees, which have been shorn
of their beautiful foliage by the cold, windy
blasts Of winter, you are here surrounded
By several distinguished gentlemen-Col
Thomas Lowe, Captain James s. George,
Little Ed Bailey and Dave Albert, OF Allan
ia. and many others-who have come TO see
you united in holy bonds of wedlock-the
grandest, noblest and sublimest state into
which people can enter; and may both Of
your hearts etern ally beat as one as you
journey down the stream of time, and when
you are done with this life may you enter
into that realm Of bliss where the good
darlies go.l,,