Show ASTRONOMY IN A BALLOON An Aerial Cruise in Paris to Observe the Eclipso Ladles arc now going In eagerly for ballooning and are showing a thorough thor-ough zest for aerial expeditions Some feminine aeronaut Journey In the air for pleasure others on scientific Investigation Inves-tigation bent Among the latter Is Miss KlumpkCr of the Paris Observatory Observa-tory who went ofhii a balloon to observe the eclipse uf the sun and who has noW returned by rail to the metropolis from Lnroohe half way to Dijon where her aerial trip had been brought to a safe conclusion As re Kurds sclentllle observation of the phenomenon however the Journey did not prove very successful The balloon started rather too late from Paris barely an hour before the eclipse was due to commence and did not rise sulll clcntly high above the clouds In time for useful study oC the puns corona as had been Intended the progress of the ascension having been unusually Blow owing doubtless to alinospherli conditions condi-tions I The elevation I reached was only three and a half kilometres or L loss than QUO inllo I and a ciwirier whuivas Miss l Klumpke has now conic to the conclu sion that under any rircumsianecfi nfl loon observations of solar phenomena will generally require a height to be obtained of at least five Kilometres At this elevation tho womnn ajiiroiuimir Is of the opinion that It i will bo an easy mJittcr to obtain during aeronautic expeditions ex-peditions photographs of the sun of remarkable re-markable Mccpllenco and of g cat Scion title value Miss Klumpkes expedition the other day has by 1 no moanH however proved I useless as regards astronomic observa I I I lions although the immediate object of tlw l ascension was not attained Some 1 very Intcrftntltie meteorological data j were it appears obtained and experiments experi-ments made in the study of atmospheric atmos-pheric phenomena which will prove of i I value to the Paris observatory and I weather bureau A lady who in as fervent fer-vent a balloonist an Miss Klumpke though an aeronaut not for scientific purposes but merely for tho exhilarating exhilarat-ing pleasure of th thing Inthe Duch CHS dUzcs who Is a frequent traveler In aerial regions Her latest trip has been accomplished In a n < jw balloon I cabled Le Buve In which M Mallet took the Duchess who wns accompanied by I Baron Emllo do LanKsdorff and Count i Arnold do Contadcs for a three hours trip rising from Saint Donls and coin lug to ground afely at Montargts In a jq rcccLndc Telegraph I t 1 L |