Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1871 — Professor Coe’s Balloon Voyage Across Lake Ontario. [ARTICLE]

Professor Coe’s Balloon Voyage Across Lake Ontario.

Profkssoh Cob, who left this city on the afternoon of the Fourth for Her Majesty’s Dominions, by balloon, arrived here this forenoon by the Northern Transportation steamer Milwaukee, from Ogdensijjs atory, though full of interest, is soon told. • He was up about one hour and forty-four minutes in the air. After leaving Oswego he rose rapidly, and in about ten minutes struck into a snow storm. He passed through several snow-squalls, and one time he had two inches of enow in his basket. He maintained an average elevation of three miles and a half, ascertained by his barometer. He had no thermometer with him, and, therefore, had no means of knowing the precise temperature. It was very cold. During much of the time he heard heavy thunder below, and a constant roaring as though he were suspended over N tagnra Falls. The storm and clouds shut out aJjSiew of the land, and he had no incaifs of knowing whether he was oyer the lake or terra jlrma. The first indication he had of the fact that he had passed beyond the lake was the whistling of locomotives, which he thinks was first heard when he was about over Kingston. The weather was so thick that in coming down he could not discern anything until he was within live or six hundred feet of the earth. He landed about a quarter of a mile from a habitation, during a driving rain, In a windfall of dead trees and timber, near Eastern Corners, Ontario, and about fifty miles from the Brockville & Ottawa Railroad. Before his balloon could be emptied of tho gas and secured, the-wind and rain had shattered it bady by whipping it against limbs and snags. The extent of the damage Professor Coe has not fully ascertained. Mr. Stone, his assistant, who accompanied him, was not properly clothed for an arctic voyage, and consequently suffered considerably from cold. No accident occurred to the persons of the atrial voyagers, except a slight bruise or scratch upon the hand of Professor Coe, in endeavoring to secure tho balloon. On the whole, it will be set down as among the remarkable events in the his(Bry of ballooning.— Osuego(N. Y.) Times, July 8. > —ln Italy and Hungary tbjajearo several large manufactories of melon sugar. The proportion of saccharine matter in the juice amounts tp about seven per cent. In the beet it is eight per cent The cost of expressing the Juioe from melons is much less than! rofia beets.