Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1859 — Daring Feat—Blondon to be Eclipsed. [ARTICLE]

Daring Feat—Blondon to be Eclipsed.

Mr. W. T. Aymar, a favorite performer in the Louise WellsYequestrian troupe, is about making arrangements to do some somersaults at Niagara which will entirely eclipse M. Blonden’s feat of tight-rope walking. He proposes, if Mr. Porter will allow scaffolding to be erected on Goat Island, to turn a summersault down into the water at the foot of the Island, a depth of one hundred and seventy feet from the point where he springs. He chooses this place because it is the only one with sufficient depth of water, and clear of rocks, for him to alight in..— Boston Herald. say that trumpet-players are doomed to short lives. We doubt it; we have known men to blow their own trumpets incessantly, and achieve a good troublesome old age.