Show HIGH fugh a mr air winchester communicates to tile the mitan milan free press ohio ohio a statement of what he saw and how flow lie he felt during his recent balloon ascension ile lie traveled some miles and landed in the top of a tree 95 feet from iha tha ground of his if highest flight he lie says fays sas fas ex 55 during ring my ascent 1 1 felt some inconvenience from tile the cold and aud put oil on my itty overcoat it lva lya tag now 26 minutes past 4 mercury indicates 8 deg a ove zero at tile he rae rate of 1000 feet per tier minute I 1 was now feet from tile the earth rth the balloon was fully distended and the tho hydrogen nearly escaping at the lower orifice I 1 fel lel felt fell I 1 a crackling ir ackling crackling sensation in ili my ears my eyes pained me and I 1 felt a general falness or enlargement of the e system respiration was not natural but not very difficult I 1 felt a dizziness come over me and when ft hen I 1 lo 10 looked ked hed at rax ray watch again 28 min minutes u tes had elapse elapsed d I 1 w was as w weak ea ry and nearly aly hel bel helpless pless my balloon was fast discharging hydrogen with difficulty I 1 threw over some bits of paper I 1 looked for my thermo thermometer me everything seemed to be displaced at last 1 I found it my finders fingers were numb with cold and could scarcely hold hald the thermometer il the ie indication was 5 deg below zero I 1 opened the escape valve to reach a warmer wanner climate but held it open too iong lang found I 1 was descending too loo fast took u up some ballast to throw overboard and found llie tile bais bags of sand frozen hard I 1 broke them thern across my kne and threw the tile overboard one at a time I 1 now felt less lees of the ful fui falness tiers of my system but my eyes ees were still sore I 1 could now see akron ravenna Ra venna venra hudson cleveland willoughby lough by chardon gainesville painesville Paines ville eind and much of tilo tho country around as the clouds had now cleared away tile the water of the L like ike had a dark blue blua appearance but the water in tiie tile river ponds a and ud canal canul bada boda li ad a bright silvery litie hrie the crackly crackling ng iu in my ear ears had ceased and I 1 felt no inconvenience from cold the tiie mercury stood at 50 degrees above zero |