A BALLOONING FEAT.
On Apiil 4th. Professor Ko^an, o Michigan, an aeronaut, succeeded in accomplishing the feat of descending, by moans of a paiaehute, 9,000 feel.. \Yhen the cliute was detached the halloon (lriftcil oil, and u.i^ 10-^f in the eloud.s. Tlio allair took jilace at .laokson. Two minutes after llo»an left tlie <rionnd, the (hop «ib made, and three minute-, from thai time he came down in an open f'Hd, hall a mile from whore he started. When i lie reached the •i'lonml he could not stand for a few momenta, and his arms weie benumbed
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 260, 2 May 1888, Page 3
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97A BALLOONING FEAT. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 260, 2 May 1888, Page 3
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