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Flying

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
January
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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osopher announces that he has disrovered a way to rnake a trip around tlie worid in twenty-four hours. He saya that he is infonned by the captains of ships that birds are neen at sea a thousand miles or more from land, and pronoiinces it self-eyident that they must roach showt in a very short time, since Ihev cannot lind a resting place in mid(icoim. From this he conceived the [dea that they merely raise themsclves aloft, and, with only enough motion to keep afloat, remain as nearly statioi - ,irv a.s possible, while the earth re vol ves anound under them. All they then have to do is to wait until the desired sjxit on the earth's surfacecomew along, ■mei thereupon coinfortably to lower ;heinselves to solid ground. Thïa ii j;enious practice on the part of birdS ;he Berlin man proposes to imitate for nankind with the ansistance of a balloon and passenger rar ot' peitlin donstruction that he has invented, nul which will soar aloft and remain stationary, while the restless earth rolls on below. lt does not appear that he has sueressfully tried a trip withhis balloon himself, but h has laid hi theory fieforo the Polytechnic Society of Uerlin and given an elabórate expoftition of it. The society received it apparently with evity, but th inventor is in dead enrnest. A Providence woman undertook to all hereelf economically with the poionous ends of matches, but found that he had to eat thirty-aeven before becomiug uiiconocious, aud than a doutor mJ) v avMtl Ui.

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Ann Arbor Democrat