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Show New Light on Ballooning. In a French School tho boys wcro asked to w-lte on the Invention of balloons. "Ilalloons wero Invented." wioto one, " .y tho llrothers Montgol-tier, Montgol-tier, who 'vero papermakors. They took a largo balloon nnd tilled It with paper They then set light to tho paper and tho balloon went up." Another An-other boy wrote- "When the aerostatssuch aero-statssuch being the name given to mon who rldo in balloons wish to como down they fetch some sand and gravel and put it In tho balloon." A third boy Informed his examiners that "the aeronaut places himself within the balloon, tho basket being used for provisions." |