| Show HOW DONALDSON INTENDS CROSSING sing tile trie ATLANTIC IN HIS iris BALLOON AD an american balloonist by name naine mr Doua donaldson ldson idson has informed the d arroita tion tiou of paris thal that within three or four months lie he intends crossing the atlantic from the united stated to europe in a balloon measuring seventy thousand cubic meters dir din mr donaldson ia is convinced that there exists a constant current of or air in the upper strata of the terrestrial atmosphere mo sphere setting at that season from wt west to easl east ile he is undeterred by previous failures and has pio vided aided himself with cans caus of liebig meat extract life belts blue lights and rockets carrier pigeons bottled to con cou contain tain floating messages astronomical trono mical instruments and aud angs by means of which he can signal to vessels vessel 3 near bear which he may pass he will probably travel alone for the sake of lightness lightie light ne and the ballast in the balloon car will principally consist of fire pots of mr donaldsons Donald sone sona own invention which are aro said to be in tin cylinders containing a chemical substance which becomes inflammable upon contact with watery water emits a brilliant and long iong lasting flame As mr donaldson ia is borne rapidly along eastward he will drop these fire pots into these thebe the sea a ev every ery ten minutes so at night the whale whole horizon he expects will be illuminated and he be will leave a nery fiery track behind him on the Atlant atlantic lc the scheme sounds all the more a big one as the recent voyage of the zenith balloon from panis paris par i i to the neighborhood of bordeaux is ia the longest on record and only occupied some sixteen hours the balloonist green in all his fourteen voyages was never longer in the air than three or four hours at a time sixteen years ago the 9 geant balloon went up frein from the champ charp do mars and descended in hanover after six hours sailing subsequently MM efam Flam marion and goddard traveled from paris to prussia in eleven bours tours several similar trips have since been made however mr donaldson hopes to be in the air not longer than a week weeks pati pali malt mall gazette A girl of 16 summers whit a husband lg ig 19 years sears old living near Frank prank fra pra hiding lington ton in franklin e county 0 anty I 1 N C a sinco since gave birth to triplets A kansas woman hag has liko like the woman of or samaria had seven teven yven sven husband husbands s but they are all living and there ia is no danger of any ono of them claiming her in the next world |
