Lippincott's Magazine
OF
POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.
AUGUST, 1880.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by J.B.Lippincott & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, atWashington.
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AMERICAN AËRONAUTS.
BALLOON ENTANGLED IN A TREE.Scattered here and there in this matter-of-fact, utilitarian age ofBusiness one finds instances of that love of daring for its own sake,with an insatiable longing for new scenes and novel sensations, which inthe days of chivalry moved the mass of men to put saddle to horse andride off Somewhere seeking Something—just as occasional trilobites,lonely and misshapen, are found in ages subsequent to the Silurian. Ofsuch stuff are our Arctic and African explorers made; the men who runthe lightning-expresses have a touch of it; it crops out insteeple-climbers, cave-explorers, beast-tamers; it makes men assaultcloud-piercing and ice-mantled mountain-peaks and launch their frailcanoes for voyages down earth-riving cañons and across continentsundering oceans. Sometimes action is denied, and then it strikes in andmakes poets—perhaps the most daring adventurers of all. It