The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-06

mer get above the clouds in well-nigh a
uble sense, shooting up alone iato space
10 hight of neatly two miles above the
earth. He did obtain. from this LOFTY re-
g.on, clear and unobstructed view of a
fine corona, quite obscured 10 his coun-
trymen below; but we can wen imagine
that the imminent duties devolVing upon
him as the guiding spirit OF so novel a
convey ance must have allowed but pre-
occupied attention to solar glories.
NJ Henry Dumoutet is an artist es-
pecially skilful in painting scenery of the
upper air. and many illustrations from his
facile brush are shown. in small mono
chrome water colors, as well as oil repre-
sensations in natural colors OF life above
the clouds. Moonlight with the strange
atmospheric effect Of cross like an elon-
gated corona around the mild luminary,
zodiacal light in the constellation Virgo,
earth-scenery from above, and many tech
meal matters he has artistically delin-
Gated, especially the effects observed dur
ing the ascent OF L'Alliance on the night
OF Nov. IL, 1899, with the Russian astrono-
mer. Hansky, from Meudon. 10 look for
the coy Leonids. "A few OF these. too, are
shown, and his pictorial record vi another
excursion for similar purpose two nights
la Ter also appears when he once more es-
sayed the empyrean In company with NM.
OF Nile. Dorothea klumpke's experiences
during an aerial voyage In the Centaure,
during the early morning OF Nov. Is, 1890,
also in search OF that years elusive mo
teors. she has already tod delightfully."- IN
the June Century Her account. as she de
scribed to us orally her preparations and
her flight into space, was even fuller than
her written description OF the mystery and
exhilaration, the strange nearness OF the
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upper air. She is "docteur es sciences. "
and al the head of a force of computers in
the Paris Observatory. charged with the
very important duty of preparing a cata-
logue of the stars from the plates of the
International Astrographic Congress. For
the solar eclipse Of the present year. May
d, she made another balloon ascension.
but was unable to reach an altitude en-
lrely above the mists and cloud enshroud-
tug Paris at that time. The disappofsft-
ment was less vital since The eclipse was
not total here. Mile Klumpke has read
a brilliant paper this week, at the Internal
honal Congress OF Women, upon feminine
achievement In astronomy-a subject upon
which she is undoubted authority,
OF course there Is a captive balloon in
the exposition grounds. for the amuse-
nent of the laymen but of far greater
interest is the exhibition of free balloons
at Nincennes. Inc otner day eight tufiy
inflated air-voyagers OF forty or fifty feet
in diameter were simultaneously shown
Four ascended in twenty minutes, with
their aeronauts. In one, lady started
on the unknown voyage with two aero
nauts; I'm another, the captain OF the celes-
tlal craft started alone. The lower air
was perfectly quiet when the balloons
were freed, and all took different direc-
lions, according to the speed of their
vertical ascent and the corresponding air
currents which they struck later. They
set forth a o'clock, but at shutdown
only one had entirely disappeared from
the gaze of the vast throngs watching at
Vincennes. The experiments are con-
Quoted under the auspices OF the Commit
tee on Aerostation, OF which the veteran
expert De Fonvielle Is secretary.
The subject OF human transportation
through space viii always be OF profound
interest until II is a practically and com
fortably established fact of everyday
occurrence. And France is surely the
country in which this problem is liable
10 meet it's final solution.