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THE GAZETTE.
USTew Series.
DYING ABOVE THE CLOUDS.
The Terrible Pate of Daring French .ZEro
nauts.
Mr. Gaston Tiesandier, in a letter to
the President of the iErial Navigation
Society, thus describes the voyage in
which the experienced aeronauts, Capt.
Sivel and Mr. Croce-Spinelli lost their
lives. One of their objects was to try
experiments of the effect upon human
lungs of an extremely high atmosphere.
M. Croce-Spinelli also proposed to con
tinue those spectroscopic obsex-vations
by which he has already proved that no
watery vapors exist in the sun's atmos
phere. M. Tissandier was to analyze the
upper air, while Capt. Sivel attended to
the balloon :
Ciron (Indre). April 16. —Monsieur :
A telegram, sent officially, will have in
formed you of the sad misfortune which
has befallen us. Sivel and Croce Spin
elli are no more. They succumbed to
asphyxia in the high regions of the air
to which we have ascended I will ro
late to you what I know of this sad dra
ma, for during two consecutive hours I
was in a state of complete unconscious
ness.
UCro.
The ascension from the gas works at
La Viilette was accomplished favora
bly. At one in the af't< rnoon we were
already at more than 5,000 yards of alti
tude (pressure 400) Wo had passed
air into the potassium tubes, felt our
pulses, measured the interior tempera
ture of the balloon, which was more than
20C(68Fahr.) while the exterior air
was less that SC. (41 Fahr.) Sivel had
trimmed the car ; Croce had used his
spectroscope, and we were all in high
spirits.
Sivel threw out ballast and we ascend
ed, breaching oxygen; which produced
an excellent effect.
At one hour and twenty minutes the
barometer marked 320 mm.; we were
over 7,000 yards high, and the tempera
ture was less than 10 C. (59 Fahr.) My
companions were pale ; I felt weak, but
I inhaled a little of the gas, which some
what revived me. We still ascended
Sivel turned toward me and said: “We
have a large quantity of ballast; shall I
throw some out?’ I replied: “£>o as
you please.” He put the same question
to our friend who nodded energetically
iu tuken of approval. We had five sacks
with us, each weighing twenty five kilos,
and at least four more were hung out
side the car.
Sivel took his knife |and successfully
cut three cords. The bags were empti
ed, and we mounted rapidly. All at once
I found myself so feeble that I could not
oven turn my head to look at my com
panions, who, I believe, were seated I
desired to obtain the oxygen tube, but
could not lift my arm, but my mind was
still quite lucid. I had my < yes on the
barometer, and I save the needles pass
over the figure of pressure 290 mm ,
than 280, which it went beyond. I want
ed to exclaim, “We are at 8,000 yards,”
but my tongue seemed paralyzed. All
at once my eyes closed and I felt inert,
entirely loosing all recollection. The
time was then about 1:30.
At 1:52 I revived for a moment. The
balloon was descending rapidly. I -was
able to cut a sack of badast to slacken
the speed, and to write on my register
the following lines, which I copy :
“We are descending. Temperature, 8
C. 17. G Fahrenheit. lam throwing out
ballast. Elevation 315. Sivel and Croce
still insensible at the bottom of the car.
Descending very rapidly.”
I had scarcely written these lines
when a sort tf trembling fit seized me,
and I sank down fainting for the second
time. I was conscious of a violent wind,
indicating a very rapid descent. A few
moments later I felt myself shaken by
the arms, and recognized Croce, who
had revived. “Throw out ballast,”
said he, “we are going down.” But I
could hardly open rny eyes, and I did
not notice whether Sivel was aroused. I
remember that Croce unfastened the as
pirator and threw it out, as well as some
ballast, extra wraps and the like. All
this is an extremely confused recollec
tion, which was quickly extinguished,
for l relapsed into insensibility more
thoroughly than before, and I felt as if I
was going into an eternal slumber.—
What happened then ? I suppose the
balloon being lightened, impermeable as
it was, and very warm, shot up once
more into the upper regions. At about
a quarter past 3 o’clock I reopened my
eyes, feeling giddy and weak, but my
consciousness returned. The balloon
was rushing downward with frightful
velocity.
The car swayed violently from side to
side, and described great oscillations, I
raised myself on my knees, and pulled
my companions by the arm. “Sivel,
Croce !” I cried “rouse yourselves! ’
They were both crouched down in the
car, with their heads concea’ed in their
cloaks.
I summonerl up all my strength and
endeavored to lift them up. Sivei’s face
was black, his eyes dull, month wide
open and full of blood. Croce Spinelli
had his eyes closed, and his mouth blood
stained also
To relate what occurred then is quite
beyond my power. I noticed a tremen
dous wind from below upward. We
were still at an altitude of 6,000 metres,
there tvere still in the car two bags of
ballast, which I cast out. Soon w r e near
ed the earth, and I sought for my knife
to cut. the attachment of the anchor, but
I couldn’t find it.
I was distracted, and kept calling out,
ELBERTON, GEOBGIA, MAY 19.1875.
“Sivel! Sivel!” Fortunately I laid mv
hand on a knife, and was enabled to free
the grapnel in time. The shock of the
fa 1 was extremely violent. The balloon
appeared to flatten itssif out completely,
and I thought it would so remain ; but
there was a strong wind, which carried
it along. ,
The grapnel did not hold firmly, and,
the car was dragged across the fields.—•
The dead bodies—of- my unfortunate
friends were jerked about, and I feared
at each moment that they would fall out
of the car. Meanwhile I succeeded in
grasping the cord of the valve, and the
balloon was quickly emptied, and was
finally exhausted against a tree. This
was about 4 o’clock.
On getting out of the car I was' at
tacked by a feverish excitement of the
most violent kind, and very soon fell
exhausted and became livid. I thought
that I was about to join my companions
in the next world*
Nevertheless, I gradually recovered my
senses. I examined my poor comrades
and found thtm cold and stiff. I had
their corpses transported to the shelter
of a neighboring farm. I sobbed to suf
focation, and even yet have not recovered.
lam at Ciron, near Le Blanc, where 1
have been received with boundless hos
pitality. I have been feverish all night.
I have not yet been able to eat anything
whatever, and feel, consequently, very
weak. I salute you.
Gaston Tissandter.
The Survivor's Record.
M. Tissandier’s notes, as long as he
was able to write, were as fol ows:
I take the place of Croce-Spinelli
while he makes his spectral observations.
My pulse beats 110 to the minute. We
are at a height of 2,000 metres. Our
thermometer, placed inside the balloon,
indicates 25 above zero, and ten degrees
lower in the car. 1 felt the pulse of
Croce-Bpinelli. It beat 120 to the min
ute. 1:10—Va are at a height of 0,000
metres. We are well. Now the height
is 6,500 metres. A litt e operation. * *
Hands slightly frozen. . * * We arc
better. * * Hands frozen. Croce
pants. We inhale the oxygen in the
bag. Si/el and Croce shut their eyes.
* * They are pale. * * A little
better, even gay. Croce says to me,
laughing, “You blow like a perpoise.”
I:2o—We are at 7,000 metrics. Sivel
seems drowsy., * * .Sivel .and P-m—''
are pale. * * 7,400. Sleepy 7,500.
Sivel still throws out ballast. * * Siv ■
el throws out ballast.
THE REV. 0. B. FfiTrEtNGHAM ON RE
VIVALS.
From the New York Herald wa clip
the following:
Rev. O. B. Frofchingham denounced
the revival system so bitterly in all his
sermons that his views on that pointwill
be already widely known by this time.—
What he said yesterday was but a reit
eration, in a colloquial form, of the
views he has heretofore ezpressed in the
pulpit.
“Do you think that the Church has
been perceptibly benefitted by the re
cent revivals in Europe and America ?”
“No,” Mr. Frothingham replied, “I do
not think that any permanent benefit
can possibly be derived from them.—
those are waves of emotion which pass
over very soon. I don’t think revival
meetings are attended y people of in
telligence or culture, but only by people
who are not under the sway of reason,
who are curiosity seekers or who are ex
citable in their religious natures and
who delight in having their animal emo
tious stirred up in this manner.
THE REACTION THAT FOLLOWS.
“Do you then think that revivals are
baneful in their influence upon the
church ?”
“Yes, for they are au.io to be followed
by a great reaction, as.it always must be
the case with people who are only sway
ed by their untutored feelings and in no
wise subject to reason. As soon as the
hand of the revivalist off, the religious
emotion is gone too.”
“Aud what follows 1”
“What follows ? An increase in vice,
corruption—sin of every sort. All trust
worthy reports on the subject agree
that ail these revivals are followed by an
extraordinary laxity in the morals of the
community. In England, for instance,
we have heard already that the revivals
have been followed by an increase in the
cases of dementia.”
“What would you suggest to take the
pk-ce of revivals ?”
EDUCATION BETTER THAN REVIVALS.
“What society wants to improve its
tone are not revivals, but education, dif
fusion of culture. Why this idea of
holding the whip and the scorpion over
the people and threatening them with
everlas ing damnation unless they re
form at once, is perfectly awful. Lash
ing people is acknowledged to have a
demoralizing effect, but here is more
than lashing ; here are threats of sul
phur and fire, and the tortures of hell.
You know, as well as I do, that an ap
peal to fear is always degrading, and
that as soon as the feeling of fear is gone
the love of good is less potent than it
was before.”
“And yet revivals are quite an old in
stitution I”
“Yes, and it is true also that the
present revivalists are not so bad as
were their predecessors. They preach
the same old doctrines, to be sure, of
the depravity of men, of damnation and
helJ, but their fires are not quite so hot
and they don’t stir up the sulphur quite
so badly as they did in former time3. I
think revivals ai’e not attended by as re
sp ctable and important classes of soci
ety as in the past; they are addressed
to the uneducated, the poor, the working
classes principally.”
REVIVALS TAKING THE PLACE OF THEATRES
“How do you account for their sue
cess in London ?”
“Oh, I don’t think it is a permanert
success. They succeed in drawing big
crowds, but any Dig show can draw
those in London. Then there are strict
ly evangelical people who have no other
excitement with which to regale them
selves, and they probably seek them in
the place of the theatres.”
“What do you think of the revival in
Water street I”
“I have never attended one ; but, on
general principles, ([would say that that
is not the way in which the poor people
are to be redeemed. The process of
civilization is a very slow one You
cau’t seize hold of people and fling
them suddenly from bell to Paradise. I
am convinced that if half the time were
1 -“voted to the education of the lower
classes that is now wasted on revivals
much good might be done. The whole
revival process, in my opinion, is an er
ror, and I don’t think that society is any
better for it. When the waves have sub
sided, the deposits of mud will be luunt.
.very thick.”
THE MAN WHO WANTED INIGRMA
TIOL
Yesterday noon, while all the people
around the office except the “head repor
ter” were at dinner, the smell of smoke
bacame suddenly apparent, and a fat man,
smoking a big pipe, came toiling up
stairs. When he had recovered his breath
and taken a seat he inquired:
“Is der editor what knows everydings
in?”
“>To—gone to dinner,” was the reply.
“Und ne shall come back purty
soon l"
“In about two hours.
“I can’t wait so quick as dat; I haf to
/jo to a funeral.”
“Do you want anything ?”
trfs“¥eß, I wants to know some dings
jjrbout dat Peechcr scandal. You zee,
i>os dayjibout dree months ago a fellow
" lit* jr>y* z m.d ha ;;a\s :
§l?3 heltV Ti oVtdi ngs V about Mi.
Beecher? - und I say nix, und he ray Mr.
Beecher sthole corn.”
“Y'es.”
“Und der next day when I went home
my wife says: ‘Did you here noddings
about Mr. Beecher?’ Und she said Mr.
Peecher sthole a dog.”
“Yes,”
“Und when I was in der street gar a
man says: ‘Hello, Mr. Ritterman, what
jou dinks about Mr. Peecher ?’ Und I
say3 no man can be a goot man whovhill
steel a dog. Und den everybody laughs
und winks, und I don't know about it.”
‘‘.Yes.’
“Und when I was in der ZityHall
a man stiks mo on der pack, und
zays: ‘Hello, old front, is Mr. Peecher
guilty V Und i said I dunno, und lie
said Mr. Peecher hiret a man to blow
up a schurch init a barrel of bow .er.”
“Yes.”
“Und den vhen I was in Dearborn a
man looks bretty sharp at me und zays:
‘You lif in Dadroit don’t you ?’ Und I
said I lif in Dadroit. Und he says:
‘What is your shudgmenton that lYecher
bisness?” Und I said nottiugs. Und he
said Mr. Peecher had a fight mid a zir
cus man.”
“Yes.”
“Und when my poy come home from
Doledo he says: ‘Fadder, what you
dinks about dot Mr. Peecher?’ Und I
says I dunno, Hans. Und he says Mr
Peecher got &ouie gloza und der dailor’s
bill.”
“Yes.”
“Und when I goes home or iu der
streetgar, or mit my zaloon, or in der
bost office, somebody say some dergs
about dot Peecher pisiuess, and I dun
no. Who is dot Sir. Peecher? Where
be lif?”
“He is a great preacher, and he lives
in Brooklyn ?”
“Zo? Und wlmt he do?”
“He got one of these tobacco boxes
with a needle in the cover, and carried it
around in his pocket. When a man
tried to open it the needle went into his
thumb about twenty five feet.”
“is dat possible?
“Yes, and he had his vest pocket made
deep that a cigar would go clear out of
sight, and he kept it full and deceived
the public.”
“My zold ! but is dat zo ?”
“Yes, and he keeps an old wild cat bill
in l:is wallet to lend out when a man
wants to secure the loau of a dollar for a
few minutes ”
“Vhell; I deglares! Ven a breacher
shall do like dat we shall wonder vhat
next. Zo dat is der Peecher pisiness, eh ?
Y 7 keil, vhell.”—[Detroit Free Press.
The young man who -spelled tho word
buzzard, “b n double izzard-a-r-d—buz
zard,” and was consequently retired with
a trombone requiem, is now < going
around the country with an open volume
of “Webster” in his arms, beseeching of
the privilege of proving that his spelling
was correct.
♦ $
Prof. Roswell Smith, author of the
well known Smith’s Grammar, died re
cently. His grammer was almost as fa
miliar twenty years ago in “old field
schools” as Webster's speelling book.
Vol. IY.-No. 4.
THE- BEE-GUM.
....John Anderson, of Indiana, did
not win the prize at a spelling match,
but he licked the man [who pronounced
the hard words, and that was some con
solation.
....The genius wdio spelt it “a bi
double-s, abyss," carries a green cotton
umbrella under his arm with which to
poke those who are interested in his en
lightenment.
... .The coming insane asylum keeper
to visitor: “Do you mean that man with
his head bowed, his eyes cast down, and
his lips moving ? Oh, yes; he was
spelled down too; but ho keeps right
on practicing all the same. I believe Ins
word is ‘syzygy.’ ”
The young man who spelled tbo
word buzzard, “b u-double izzard-a-r-d,
buzzard,” and was consequently retired
witli[a trombone requiem, is now going
around the country with a “Webster”
in his arms beseeching the privilege of
proving that his spelling was correct.
EIG INVENTION.
Lloyd, the famous map man, who
irade all the maps for Gen’ls Lee and
Grant during the great Civil War, and
certificates of which he published, has
just invented anew way of getting re
lief plates from steel so vs to print
Lloyd’s Great Topographical Railway
County seat and Distance Map of Geor
gia, size 40 x 50 inches large, on a light-
press and colored, s zed and var
nished so as to stand washing and mail
ing to any Post-Office in the United
States as safely a as letter, for 30 cents;
and plain for tourists at 25 cents; or
mounted with rollers and moulding
ready for the wall, and post-paid to your
door for 50 cents. This new Map of
Georgia shows every Village, Post-Of
fice, Wagon road, Creek, Hill, Mountain,
Countyseat and Railroad in actual run
ning order to Ist April, 1875, with tho
name of each R. R., and its length in
miles, and each station thereon with the
actual distance in nines from one station
to tho other. This map should bo in
every house in the State of Georgia, now
that the new postal law enables the
Lloyd Map Cos. to send a map by the
post, mounted or in sheet form, safely aB
a le.ter. Send tho price to the Lloyd
Map Cos., Philadelphia, Pa., and you will
receive a copy by rctu rn -ntrsi r pwstqTfftfl'.
[Herald.
John Hepner, a German, now a resi
dent of Reading, Pennsylvania, has lived
to be called the father of more children
than probably any other man in the
country. He is sixty years old, aud has
had three wives. Ho was first married
in Germany in 1840, and his first wife
died in 1848. In that short time she
bore him seventeen children—two pairs
of twins, four sets of triplets, and one
at a single birth. Mr. Hepner married
again in less than a year. He was mar
ried the latter part of June, 1849, and in
February another child was born to him,
followed by the second on the following
Christmas. After that his wife bore him
twins five consecutive times, and three
children at a single birth, making fifteen
child en in nine years, at the end of
which time his second wife, died. His
two marriages covered a period of sev
enteen years, and yielded him thirty two
children. Ho had come to this country
three years before the death of his sec
ond wife. He was married again shortly
afterward this time to a widow with one
child. This wife is still living, and has
borne II pner nine children. Of the first
set of children none are now living, and
only two of tho second and three of the
third.
Just what he says. — A writer in tho
St. Paul Press tells anew story of Hor
ace Greely. Horace wrote a note to a
brother editor in Now York, whose writ
ing was equally illegible with his own.
Tho recipient of the note, not being able
to read it, sent it back by the same mes
senger to Mr. Greeley for elucidation.
Supposing it to be the answer to his own
note, Mr. Greeley looked over it, but
likewise was unabli to read it, and said
to the boy :
“Go take it back. What does the
and and fool mean ?”
“Yes, sir,” said the boy ; that is just
what he says.”
When a man hands an editor an arti
cle for publication, and asks him to
“fix it up,” because he “wrote it in a
hurry,” and “hadn’t time to revise it,"
you may know that he commenced the
article directly after supper, and wrestled
with it until after midnight, re writing
it fourteen times, destroying a quire of
foolscap, andj“blossed” his pen every two
minutes. That’s the way they generally
write and article when they are “in a
hurry,” an have “no time to revise it.”
♦ <-*>♦
Puzz\e.— A ship at sea sprung a leak.
Tho hole in the bottom v,as just one
foot square. There was but one board
on the ship—this was sixteen inches
long and just exactly nine inches
wide. It had precisely the requisite
number of square inches, and the car
pen ter cut it in two pieces only, and
these two pieces just fitted tho hole.
How did he do it ?
A mnsican and a sailor should always
know how to sound tho C.
Troubles are like, dogs—the smaller
they are, th e more they worry and an
noy you.
A SUFFERING 00NVI0T.
Max Adeler writes as follows:
A few days ago I wanted to hire a man
to wheel half dozen loads of rubbish out
of my girden, and after looking around
awhile I found a seeded chap silting on
the tnd of a wharf fishing. When I
asked him if he would attend to the job,,
he replied thus:
“I really can’t Tin sorry, but the fact
is, I’m in jail for six months for larceny.
Sentenced last December. I don’t mind
it much, only they ain’t, honest with mo
up yer at the jail. The first week I was
there, Mrs Murphy -she’s the keeper’s
wife— to kinder clean up, and soi
she rousted me out, more’n a week..
Then, just as I was gittin’ settled agin
comfortably the provisions ran short,
and so Murphy tried to borrer money of
me to feed the convicts, and as I hadn’t
none to lend out I had to go agin. In
about two weeks I started in fresh, and
got everything snug and cheerful, when
Murphy’s aunt stepped out. Then what
does that inconsiderate ass do but chuck
mo out agin and lock up the jail and put
crape on the door while he sheeted off to
the funeral.
So, of course, I had to browse around,
huntin’ up fodder where I could git it,
sometimes nibbin’ somethin’ at the tav
ern, and other times takin’ tea with a
friend. Well, sir, hardly was that ridic
ulous old woman unloaded into the se
pulchre, and me once more in the cell,
with" the like feelin’ beginnin’ to creep
over me, but Murphy ho says he and his
wife’s got to go up to the city' to git a
hired gin; and when I refused to quit,
Murphy grabbed me by the collar and
rammed me into the street, and said he’d
sick his dog on me if I came around
there makin’ a fuss.
I hung about a few days, and when I
went to the boy lie said Murphy hadn’t
got back and I’d have to call ag'in. Noxfc
time I applied, the boy hollered from the
window that he was still rummagin' for
that hired girl. I went there eight
times, and there was always some jack
ass of an excuse for crowdin’ mo out,
and I don’t know if I’ll over get in again.
Night afore last I bust a window with a
brick, and tried to crawl in through the
hole, but the boy fired a gun at me,
and said if I’d just wait till Mr. Murphy
came back, he’d have me arrested for
burglary.
Now, I think I’ve been treated seand
lous bad. I’ve got a right in that jail,
and its pretty mean in a man like Mur
phy to shove mo off iu weather liko this,
and I’m bound to live six months in tho
prison sometime or other,' whether h®
likes it or not. I don’t mind puttin’ my
self to some trouble to oblige a friend,
but 1 hato like thunder to bo imposed
on.
'Pears to me its no way to run a penal
institutionally way. There’s Potts; he’s
in jail for perjury for nine years, and
Murphy’s actually shook that convict out
so often and made him shin ’round after
his victuals that Potts has lost hear*
and has gone to eanvaasin' it >r a Jif-e in
surance company ; gone to perambulat
in all over the country tryin' to do a lit
tle somethin’ to keep clothes on his back,
when lie ought to be layin’serenely in
that jail. But I ain’t goin’ to do that.
If the law keeps me in custody it’s got to
support mo, and that’s what Butter wick
says too. Ketch him workin’ his livin’.
He’s in for four years for assault and
battery; and when they boost him out
of , the jail he puts up at hotel, and
has the bills sent in to Murphy’s.
Murphy don’t havo consideration for
the prisoners anyway. Y T ou know ho
raises fowls in the jail yard, and just af
ter Christmas he had a big lot of tur
keys left on his hands, and do you be
lieve, that man acually kept feedin us on
those turkeysjjjfor moro than a month!
Positively refused to allow us anything
else until they was gone. It was fiend
ish. I had half a notion to quit dis
gusted. And Buttenvick said if that is
the way they wore goin’ to treat convicts
why civilization was a failure. All
through Lent, too, wouldn’t allow us an
oyster ; kept Btuffiu us with beef and
such trash, Potts said he’d
never been used to such wickedness, for
his parents were very particular. Would
not even givo us fish balls twice a week.
But does Murphy care? He’s perfectly
enthusiastic when he can tread on a man’s
feolin’s and stamp all the sensibility out
of him.
And Mrs. Muphy she’s not much bet
ter. All the warm days she’s homo she
hustles that baby of her’n on to me.
Makes me take the sqallin’ little sucklin’
out in his carriage for an ailin’, and
then gets mad if he falls out while. I’m
conversin’ for a few minutes with a
friend! I’d a slid him into the river long
ago, only I know well enough they’d
sentence me for life, and then I’d maybe
have to stand Murphy’s persecutin’ for
about forty years; and thatd kill me.
It would just slay me. It would indued.
He’s so inconsiderate.
He used to give me tho key of the jail
to keep while he’d go over to Burnse s to
fight roosters or play poker, and one
day I lost it. Ho raised an awful fuss,
and even Potts was down on me because
they couldn’t keep the boys out, and
they used to come in and tickle Potts
with straws while he was sleepin’ in his
cell. I b’lieve they expeck Murphy back
day after to-morrow, but I know mighty
well I’m not goin’ to have much satisfac
tion when lie does come. He’ll find
some excuse for shufflin’ mo out 'bout as
soon as 1 git stowed away in my old
quarters. If ho docs I’ve got a notion
to lock him out somo night and run
the jail myself for n while, eo’s I can
have some peace. There’s such a thing
as carryin’ abuses a little too far. Ex
cuse me for a minnte. I think I have a
bite.
Then I left to hunt another innn. I
feel that tho Society for the Alleviation
of tho Sufferings of Prisoners has a
great work to perform in our town.
[N. Y. Weekly.
China has engaged tho Confederate
General Ripley to construct works on an
extensive scale for the defense of the
coast and principal rivers in that coun
try. Gen. Ripley sails for the East iq
a few days.