The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-12
THE AERONAUTS STORY.
Disposai of Failing Bodies Without LIZ
tertDg the Earth.

tertBg the Earth.
ibid you see anything in any of tho
papers about "A man falling out Of q
balloon five or six miles high aud never
hitting the ground?" inquired an old
aeronaut.
what did he hit?'' was the inquirins
reply.
Nothing. according TO the theory of
the man making the statement You
see, IL was one OF those question asking
cranks who want 60 know everything.
He said that IL . man fell out OK "a bal.
loon at that height he would be going
80 fast by the time be got near the earth
he would be vaporated by the heat from
the friction"
That's a fool notion, isn't IT.
"Um-um," hesitated the scronaut,
II wouldn't like 10 say IL wa-. alto
,gether."
why not7 Did you ever try itT-
mo. but tried IL on a dog once
ibid he hit bottom7'
~Let me tell YOU about IL and you can
answer the question TO suit yourself.
Twenty years ago had n reputation in
aeronautics az n high flyer. SO 60 speak,
and / guess l have been farther away
from the earth than any body that Is still
alive. One day made an ascension "a
a distance Of over i've miles, and thu
next day proposed TO bea, ny own
record. and / took scientific chap
along as q witness. We also took along
"A dog weighing about eight or ten
pounds
well. we went up for all there was
In II. aud 1 expect va might b. ia
Heaven by this time The profcsAor
almost froze 70 death and hal 20 turn
back 10 save his life. Al the point
registered highest by our barometer Z
jet the dog jump out. spotted the acii
where be ought TO light with my glass
and watched him 20 down a. long ss
/ could see him. A couple Of hours later
We dsfceEded and the balloon grounded
within half mile Of where the dog
ahould have III, the wind having
changed ard swept us back toward the
starting place. We were interested IA
the dog aud lad put brass collar on
h N with our sdSress on 81. 80 ~ any.
lS.dy picked the body up II could bs sent
10 "a. That "a because we had 10 i6ea
% landing anywhere near vhsre 10
would aiight We looked the h~ld over
carefully. bs; found DO sign 81 the dor.
7 s~n 80 made . more careful sesfcb
aud came up with sosnsthinz tat
boxed Ike = dog collar that bad bsea
through a fery fnTuass. u had sr-
rctiv the appearance - brass that bal
been IN The ars. but our tag wss ss0i On
Z ard 80 were about - throw - away.
when fae profssSoT took aEothsT look
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baan't "a a. az lie had b@<n bsra.ssI
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