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About The Douglas breeze. (Douglas, Coffee County, Ga.) 18??-190? | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1896)
dropping from a balloon. A. Canadian Aeronant Describes the Sensa* tions of His First Effort. Professor Pierre Lo Londe, the famous Canadian aeronaut of Mont real, is perhaps the most daring balloonist of his time, if Sam Raid van of this city, who introduced the parachute in 1875, is excepted. “I have boon 18 years in the busi ness,” said Professor Lo Londe, '‘having made my initial ascension and parachute dosceut when a boy of 17 at Wausoon, 0., under the di rection of Professor Brady of Cleve land. The district fair was in full blast, and at the appointed hour of ascension thousands of visitors to the exhibition congregated. Tho regular aeronaut’s heart failed him when the monster balloon was bounding about inflated for tho trip. I was summoned and promised $35 and anew suit of clothes if I would mako the drop. Thinking only of the reward on my descent, I con sented. “A moment after I was securely fastened to the trapezo ring and loop. I hoard the manager call out, ‘Everybody let go!’ and in less time than it takes to tell it I was soaring far above tho crowd. At the first bound tho guy ropes loosoned and the people rushed back liko cattle. My first sensation was dizziness, the earth seemed receding from me and the cheering and. huzzas of the spec tators resembled tho swarming of bees. “Up I soared, tbo largo fields be neath me appearing no larger than the palm of the hand, the city like planks laid side by side, large for ests appeared like clusters of grape „ vines and tbo river beneath like a silver tube. Tbo earth did not ap pear spherical, but seemed more liko a basin. “Presently all was fog and my clothes wero soon soaking wot. Then came sunshine, and, remembering my instructions, I reached for tho cutaway lino. I shut my eyes, closed my mouth and jerked the lino. Thoro was no response. I took a deep breath and tugged again. Still no result. Again (using both hands this time) I grasped the life cord, and, eh—that moment I shall never forget! I was flying with lightning speed downward through midair, my eyes closed and head reeling. “Then came a pause in the mad race—a terrible jerk, so sudden was tho chock of speed. My trusty shoot had opened. I felt I had anew lease on life, and looked beneath to pick my descent. Swaying to and fro, I alighted in a corn patch three miles from the city, none the worse for journey, and surrounded by thousands of tho curious people who had paid 50 cents expeoting to see a man killed. “This was back in the seventies, when an aeronaut often received S4OO a drop, and when parachute air kings wero in the acme of glory. Thera is no longer so sensational a ' demand.” Professor Le Londe could tell many more interesting balloon ex periences. During liis daring aero nautical career ho has made 400 as pensions, tho avorago height attain ed being about 4,000 foot, —San Fran cisco Examiner. Habitually Forgot to Wind Hi3 Watch. Among the absentminded nota bles whose memories furnish a fund for the story tellers is recalled the lato Jame3 S. Wiley, for many years a distinguished lawyer in Piscata quis county, and once a member of congress from the Fourth district, yytio used to have much trouble with his watch. It had a habit of stop ping several times a week, and in every caso it had run down. His dealer would wind it and suggest to Mr. Wiley that the next time it Stopped he should adopt that simple method of starting it. But in a few days Mr. Wiley would appear again with that timepiece silent, and be fore ho had tried to set it in motion by winding it. And it is related that he would ho just as surprised as if the same thing had never before oc curred when shown that a limp spring was responsible for all the trouble. Wehavo no doubtthe story is true, for we have known of equal ly incredible lapses—such as that of the Maine professor who got into his bathtub with his clothes on.— Lewiston Journal. Might Be Either. “ Junkloy has gotten some queer ideas since he went into public life, ” gaid ono friend, ‘ I hadn’t noticed the fact." “Yes. He said the other day that ho didn’t care what the newspapers said about him so long as it wasn’t nothing.” “That sounds a little twisted.” “It did tome. I can’t makeup my mind whether he is a bad gram marian or a good advertiser.”— Washington Star. It May Be. Lawyer (a few years hence) —Make your mind easy. The jury will dis agree. Prisoner—Sure? Lawyer—l know it. Two of the members are man and wife. —Pear- Boa'a Weekly, . ~ INDIAN PLEASANTRIES. How a Single Fiegftu Passed For Seventy anti a Ree Fooled a Trader, “A member of the Canadian | mounted police, Lieutenant McDon ough, told me,” said Captain Par ! tello, at the Officers’ club, “the fol ( lowing incident of a band of Crees | and a solitary Piegan Indian, which is novel and interesting. It occurred : about 100 miles from Fort Walsh. A band of Cree Indians woke up one j snowy morning to find that about ; one dozen of their choicest ponies had been run oil during tlio night. Pursuit wa3 soon organized, and ; within a few hours a fresh trail was found in the snow. After following tho trail some 30 miles it entered a river bottom and headed for a wood j ed island in the middle of the river. “Smoke was seen rising from tho trees, and an opening, whioh seem ed to be the mouth of a cave, appear ed In plain view. Presently a single Indian, a Piegan, showed up in front of the opening. He was in war paint, and there was a dog at his heels. Pretty soon the dog scented tho Crees and began growling and barking. Tho Piegan looked up, glanced a moment about him and then instantly entered tho cave. In about ten seconds another Piegan ! came around the rocks and also J went in, then another and another and another, thoro being but a few seconds between them. The Crees lay silently in the bushes, watching and counting, until upward of 50 Piegans had como around the rocks and gone into the oavo, and still they kept coming. What seemed re markable was tbo fact that all these Indians were, to all appearances, ex actly tho same sizo, were dressed and painted alike, each carried a ri fle, and, most remarkable, each seemed a little lame in the left foot, limping slightly. “They were a gaudy crowd, and the Creos oounted 70 of them. The superstitions Crees naturally con cluded that the evil spirit had some thing to do with it, for there was no doubt that there were 70 Piegan Indians on tho island who were ex actly alike. “So thoroughly were they filled with the idea that the devil was mixed up with the mystery that even when the re-enforcements ar rived, which was in a few hours, they were reluctant to attack tho is land. That night one Cree, less su perstitious than tho rest, crossed over the ice to investigate. On ap proaching tho supposed cave he was surprised to find it was no cave at all, hut simply an opening leading some ten feet into the rock, where it made a turn and oamo out on tho other side. It required hut a glance to understand what had seemed so mysterious before. There was but the remnant of a single campfire, the ponies wero gone, and not an Indian was in sight. Tbo apparent presonce of 69 other warriors was a sharp trick on the part of tho Pio gan warrior to deceive his enemies and gain time for his escape, which he accomplished in good shape. “While it is true that most rod men are ridiculously superstitious, and others again so stolid and indif ferent that you might enter their presence with a brass band, throw handsprings boforo them, smile, weep, have convulsions or do some other outrageous thing and yet they will sit and look at you with a cold, reserved glance and disinterested eye, still there are more who have the hump of humor pretty well de veloped and are in'.ens wags in their own way. Tho t dor at Fort Borthold, on tho uppe • Missouri, caught a Tartar one day. A Bee Indian had given him con siderable annoyance by hanging around the store in a half drunken condition, and was told that in oaso he was seen again with a bottle it would be taken away from him and thrown into the fire. A few days afterward the Indian appeared with a pint flask in his blanket, as usual. The trader was as good as bis word, nud demanded the bottle, which was given up without a word of protest, and then the redskin started for tho door. Tbo trader threw the flask in to the stove, when, bang! went tho stovo and out came tho windows, tho trader following. Had he stop ped to investigate heforo throwing, ho would have found the flask con tained gunpowder, not whisky.— Buffalo Express. Her Stylo. Tho editor- of The New Woman eras buying tho mechanical outfit for her publication, the first number of which was to be issued in about three weeks. “Y’ou wish to get an entire dress for tho paper?” said tho typefound er. “Yes, sir.” “Have you any preference as to, the stylo?” he inquired. “Yes, sir,” promptly replied the editor. “I don’t want anything de collete.”—Chicago Tribune. Tho Letter of the Agreement. Wife—This is cruel! 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