THE PARACHUTE MANIA
" I'kofessor " Hiogixs, ex-coachinau and parachutist, has already become a formidable rival to Ririui'a young man, who will have to look to his laurels. The
" IVofessor " the other day at Cheltenham took up with iii:n a Miss Ujvoy, ivliom ho sent soiling clown from an altitude of .'toOOft., himself following from a height of 4000 ft. Both came safely to grass. We expect now to fin I Baldwin announcing that ho will take up and send down his wife and all his family. And so the coutest for supremacy will >_"> on until each has dropped all friends, ami all his relations, too. "There are a few 'friends' of mine own," says '• Dagonet," in the Referee, "I should like to drop. Tliey are of the borrowing persuasion, and they stick closer thau a brother."
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2659, 27 July 1889, Page 5 (Supplement)
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135THE PARACHUTE MANIA Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2659, 27 July 1889, Page 5 (Supplement)
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