The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-10-04 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ISCICCOWS. The ball, which !! to be of enormous size, will measure fOriry -live feet around and be fifteen feet in ameter. It will be hollow, and its cove,int!Will consist of a rubber and tarred rope, the whole about three inches thick. There will be nothing inside but a man. Wormwood will be hermetically sealed inside. The ball will purposely be made large to afford air to the balled-np adventurer. It will be very light and will foot ix a buoyant way in the rapids. When it shall have reached the edge of the cataract Mr. Wormwood has oalculated4bat it( will roll about half way over and will bound about two hundred feet into the clear air above the river and then drop into it. It will not descend more than twenty feet, and will quickly come to the surface on account of its great lightness. Rowboats cruising about below the cataract are to catch the ball with boathooks, unseal it and take Mr. Wormwood out anl convey him to the shore. The ingenious adventurer has estimated that the condensed au within the rubber ball will support respiration ten minutes,land that after being canned upin a sphere it will take him only three seconds to go over the Falls. Three minutes more will suffice for his rescue. He will have nearly: seven minutes of air to spare. He lhas not the slightest fear of the success of his venture. He Mule here from London, is a man of quiet ways and indulges in no boasting. He is thirty-ilve years of age, of medium height, wears side whiskers and glom When asked what his oocupatiou had been he said that he used to be shot out of a cannon at a circus. He looks at going over the Falls merely as an opportunity to make 1,000 dols. He has been busy writing to fnende, lmakiug appointments to call on them after he had gone over the Falls. A few beta have been made at the Propact Home of ten to one that he would not go over the Fadls alive. A few claim to have seen him buying pools against his bUCCOSS. From this some say that the man intends to get up a public exhibition and commit suicide. Since Mr Wormwood's intended voyage in a ball got out, a crank has come up from Buffalo and offered to go over the cataract on what he calls "rubber snowshoes," using a pole to guide him safely through the rapids and over the precipice, He proposes to build two rubber floats eight feet long and fasten them on his feet. The soles of the rubber shoes or floats will be covered with material which has an attractim for the water and will enable him to descend the torrent at right angles with it. Once below the Falls it will be smooth sailing. The man told the story on the verandas of all the principal hotels, and when last seen was trying to borrow two dollars to buy the " rubber shoes." A negro minstrel, who was " stranded " when Salvin's Germany broke up, proposed to go over the Falls on a cork. He wished to be strapped to a cork, on which he would float down the rushing river and go over the cataract. • cork two feet in thickness and three feet long, which Wands in one of the drug-store windows, has been selected by him. He says that if any one will get his trunks out of the hotel he will go over the Falls. A cat was sent over the Falls twice by way of experiment. It had no effect on him. He climbed up the bank, dodged a brink, and seemed well centent.  PVBLICAb