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Show RAPID TRIP OF BALLOON. French Aeronauts Travel at Sixty Mile an Hour Clip. A balloon with the aeronaut Me-landrl Me-landrl and Uireo other passengers, recently accomplished an all-night voyago of 450 miles, having left Paris at 5 on Saturday evening, and having i descended at Aries, In the south ot France, after breakfast on Sunday. Tho travelers attained an altitude of 9,000 feet, whore they encountered a wind that blew them along at sixty miles an hour and a temperature that sent their thermometer down to 5 degrees Fahrenheit (27 degrees of frost) and froze their bottles of Vlcby water. Not liking tho look or the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean they decided to descend. They fell nearly two miles In ten minutes and beyond being quite deaf when they reached terra fir ma were nono the worse for their trip. New Fire' Extinguisher. An engineer named Max Ebeihardt, gave at Munich a few days ago a demonstration dem-onstration of the effectiveness of s new "preparation for extinguishing fires. The preparation Is a liquid of milky color. Tho flrBt experiment showed that tho skin when painted with the liquid becomes insensible to heat. Uags saturated with petroleum can bo turned upon tho hand after It has been Immersed In the liquid. Small fires can bo extinguished with the hands, and with one pailful of tho liquid a ftiti In a pit ot tar was put out jn ono srrond. The tar, even nfter petroleum had been poured over it, could not bo ugain Ignited, as tho liquid formed a thin, unmeltablo crust which completely shut out oxygen. oxy-gen. Consular report. Different After Flv Years. William Glacklns, who admires Whistler, cited tho other day two letters let-ters wrltton by a collector of etchings to a certain print seller. Betweon the letters there was an Interval of five years. Tho first said: "I do not want etchings by Whistler. They Impress me as if file that had fallen In ait Inkwell Ink-well had walked on old paper." Tho second lottor said: "Send mo every etching by Whistler the price of whlrh is not ruinous." Philadelphia Record |