Show high flyers fliers the thousands of people who have watched the aerial travels of 0 ur or van tassel and gazed open mouthed tit ill bis big wonderful accents ascents and beill more wood wonderful erfal descents through space will probably be iu in to learn what is being done toward coward reducing aeronautics to the condition of an exact science it may be news to some people to hear bear that something is being done schoola or of aeronautics aeu auti have it been established at government expense in germany and aad franco experiments by offic officers erb of the army are being conducted at tile cost in and rub itna sia bhain in almost every country in the world some borne one is op spending ending time aud money in in trying dying to solve the problem how to duvon bill balloon loon agart tile the wind the first actual steps in lu advance in ID the science of navigating the air was made mada in this country coma boina thirty years ago when wise and lamoun tan tain son announced bounced the discovery of a uniform current of air flowing from west to east the 1 he discovery appeared to be confirmed by two successful air voyages but bat subsequent experiment proved that the westerly current was waa not uniform and the theory was abandoned during the war in in italy and the ha war of the rebellion Ile bellion captive balloons balI were wera used and during the siege of paris balloons were the only means of communication between the tha beleaguered beleaguer ed city and the outside world sixty hilly four left paris one of them carrying Gam gambetta botta only two were lost but these erostato aerostats aero ero stats were no im provement pro go BO far as their motive power was concerned over the mont olaer balloons of the last century they went wherever the wind carried them the close of the franco ger in man war both nations sot Herious seriously ly to work to contrive a d Iri gible lold bal at loon in al puy invented ted it cigar shaped airship which t he i e u undertook I 1 der took to steer 1 and lid lie he did alter lili course sonae soma twelve do de grees grecs by 1 the he use 0 of f a aall lorce come he used was manual the german established a vamp n p at kiel especially for aeronautical experiment and a few years sa ago lra captain contrived an airship hip which actually sailed against dewind alie wind france MM AIM kreb crelli i and renard have built ri hullar which they hey have adrig abed the air at the rato rate of four or live five miles an bjur io in calm er in one of them krebs kreba crossed the T ish chan nell and landed la in ell EHR 9 land a ut t the point liy he had set for his destination equally int e resting experiments have been made mado byar by mr chayer in this country tho problem which bi builders alders ottly of fly inc fag machines have had before the them m ever since the days of h has been how to combine tho the force of tile the muscles of it A bird with a weight so light fht that itcan be lifted by a modern moderate to power and a bulk so condensed that hat it earl cad be driven against iia liisi the wind the force hat hai been founds it la is electricity the question ol of weight will probably pro bibly be ba solved by ilia use of metallic aluminum but wo the shape of the aerostat la Is ai much of I 1 u pu puzzle ale as ever the airships of krebs renard henard arid and mould be blown no ofle knows where id u leilh wind when the be fight tl 09 rumen some borne ono one will probably devise an airship which shall oppose to the wind no larger resisting surface thau tile hie wild duck aind d shall at 1 tl aliu salue kinjo bu driven uy by a 11 p wor hir far grei terla proportion to its weight that than tile the tamest steamer float ducat should much auch an to in bention be perfected we should ba awo to travel ai tile tho crow flies blean meanwhile whilo wa rout bo be content to creep along the surface of the earth I 1 lu a ey dress ard I 1 it i |