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FIRST OF AERONAUTS.
tjlamctmrtl Salted In Air llefore IlnUoeafi
Were Mitde.
Eighty-five years ago there died In
Parte, Blanchard, the first man to galo
celebrity as a balloonist, says the New
York Mail and Express. Ho was born
In 1738 and before the balloon was In
vented ho had navigated the air in an
atmospheric machine of his own inven
tion, which was propelled with oars
and which attained a height above
ground of about eighty feet. Blanch
ard mndo his first ascent in a balloon
at Paris, March 2, 1784. On January 7,
1785, ho crossed the English channel
in a balloon, accompanied by Dr. Jef
fries. Under the circumstances it wna
feat of great daring. The aeronauts
the trip ended cast away everything
but the basket under the balloon, and
were about to out It away when they
were carried over the town of Calais
and finally dropped in u forest. The
officials of Calais gave Blanchard a
dinner, presented to him papers of citi
zenship In a gold box, gave him $1,200
for his balloon and a pension of 125
yearly. The king of France also pen
sioned him. Blanchard boasted that
he had risen 13,000 feet higher than
any aeronaut of his time. He made
sixty ascensions, the last one causing
his death. His wife continued the
business after him and was killed by a
fall from a balloon in 1819. Albert of
Saxony, a Dominican monk, is credited
with having formed tho first correct
Idea of building balloons curly in the
fourteenth century, but his ideas never
took practical shape. While the scien
tists were working on the question in
1783 tho brothers Montgolfk'r, paper
makers, near Lyons, made ano sent up
tho first balloon on June 5. This bal
loon was made of linen, was 315 feet in
circumference and rose 1,600 feet. It
was filled with heated air. About three
months later Prof. Charles sent up hit
balloon, called a "Charllere." It trav
eled some miles from the starting anfl
fell in a village. The peasants re
garded it as a living .nonster, and fall
upon it with pitchforks and flails and
tore it to pieces, to the loss and disgust
of its owner.
The first living things to leave the
earth in a balloon were a sheep, a hen
and a duck. They landed safely ana
the sheep was found grazing. Tho first
ascent In a hydrogen balloon was made
by Prof. Charles in Paris, Dec. 1, 1783.
Lincoln unit "Our Amcrtritti funftlti."
Gen. I. N. Wallicr, commander-in-chief
of the Ornnd Army of tho Repub
lic, whlk zi ;lie Tacomn hotel on April
29, rolafcra tho following rather strik
ing coincidence. He wiib In Chicago at
the time Mr. Lincoln received his first
nomination. On the evening of May
18, 18G0, the dny the nomination was
made, Hen. Walker was at tho old Mc
Vicker's theater and witnessed a per
formance of "Our American Cousin
with Laura keeno na the leading lady
in tho ciiHt. During tho performance
the rugged, kindly face of Mr. Lincoln
vas Hashed by limelight upon the cur
tain, with tho nnnoiinc-mcnt of the
nomination of "Honest Abe Lincoln"
as tho republican nominee for presi
dent. Tho audience went wild with
enthusiasm for several mlnuto.i before
tho play could be resumed. Within a
fow dnys of Ave years afterward tho
same play waB being given nt Ford's
theater in Washington, with Laura
Keene as leading lady. On the even
ing of April 14, 1863, 1'iesldent Lincoln
went to tho theater, where ho was
killed by the assassin Booth. Tacoma
Electric wiring, gas and electric fix
tures and lamps a specialty. Korsmeyer
Plumbing and Heating Co., 215 South
Eleventh street.
A Stylish Turu-out.
The Kuralm Jew.
The Karalm Jews number 3,000 or
4,000 and live principally in the Crimea.
They speak a Tartar dialect among
themselves, and ethnological ly are
much more like Tartars than Semites.
Their own legends, In fact, permit the
assumption that they were Khazara
and were converted to Judaism In the
eighth century. Their form of Judaism
differs from that of the 5,000,000 or
more orthodox Russian Jews in reject
ing the talmud and traditional theol
ogy altogether and confining itself
strictly to the Mosaic revelation. It
4 fras been a favorite amusement with
the flussians for generations to pretend
the greatest admiration and affection
for this obscure little tribe. Mme.
Novlkoff had her Joke on tho subject
here In London when Bho gravely as
sured an Interviewer some yearB ago
that there never had been a law of any
kind Issued in Russia against the Jews.
When this amazing assertion was ques
tioned she coolly explained that she
referred to the Karalm Jews, as in Rus
sia they die not consider tho disciples
of the talciud wero Jews at all. Inas
much as the Karaites constitute only
a two-thousandth part of tho Jewisb
race If, Indeed, it be conceded that
they belong to it at all tho Insolence
of the Russian attitude toward them
is peculiarly exasperating to Hebrews
in general and the spectacle of theli
being brought forward nt Moscow aa
the solo representnl'veB of Israel will
T smart and rankle just as the genial
Slavonic character delres it should.
Saturday Review.
' ' '' "Wr-?
At Abued Wtfev
Married Daughter Oh, dear, sue a
time as I do bavo with that husband of
mine! I don't have a mbaate'a paoa
When he's in the house. He is always
calling mo to help do something or
other.
Mother What does he want now?
Daughter He wants me to traipse
way up stairs just to thread a needle
for him, so he can mend his clothes.
Out of Observation.
Miss De Fashion I've been having a
perfectly lovely time; teas and parties,
and music and dancing, and private
theatricals, and everything you can
think of. Haven't had so much fun for
S year.
Friend (shocked) What? During
Lent?
Miss De Fashion Oh, It's all right,
i ear. We were in the country.
Kftpettln? I'lhr..
The king of Denmark's "sort of new
Invented guns, which bcliia but once
charged will discharge many times, one
after another," in 1657, would seem to
have had rivals about the same period.
Pepys twice refers to such. On July 3,
1662, when "at the Dolphin -with the
officers of the ordnance, after dinner
was brought t.o Sir. W. Compton a gun
to discharge seven times, the best of
all devices that ever 1 saw and very
serviceable, and not a bawble, for It if
much approved of, and many thereof
made." And on March 4, 1663-4, he
mentioned "a new fashion gun to shoot
often, one after another." Notes and
Queries.
The Baiebull 1M teller.
The famous base ball pitcher had
walked the floor with the youngest of
his family for an hour or so. "Mary,"
said he, "If the manager saw me now,
I bet I'd get soaked with a fine."
"Why?" asked the wife, sleepily.
"I don't seem to hnve any control of
he bawl at all. I don'."
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