Punch: Punch (54.1868)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[June 27, 1868.

INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS WITH COSTUME.

EAR ABOYE ST. PAUL’S.

Has Mk. Bowley, of the Crystal
Palace, time to read the Post? ]f
not. he will perhaps be furnished
with a bit of news and a hint, in the
following extract from the letter of
j its Paris correspondent

“ Many persons avail themselves of the
short aerial voyage by means of the ballon
captif, which ascends from the Hippodrome
every quarter of an hour. The car is ca-
pable of containing fourteen persons, and
the balloon is allowed to reach a height of
300 French yards, when it is held fast by
a coil of rope, and remains stationary some
twelve or thirteen minutes. A magnificent
view of the city of Paris and the surrounding
country is thus obtained, and the ascension
is described as being exceedingly pleasant,
j Every precaution is taken to insure per-
sonal safety.”

Couldn’t a captive balloon be sent
up from the popular pleasure-garden
at Sydenham as easily as from the
Parisian Hippodrome? In respect
of the British Public, would it not
probably prove a no less paying
speculation than it is as regards the
Erench ? Some notion of its pecu-
niary success may be derived from
the statement that:—

“The fee for the trip is 5fr, with the
exception of the reserved days, Wednesday
and Friday, when the charge is lOfr.”

On shilling days at the Crystal
Palace it would be advisable to put
the price charged for going up in the
balloon at the lowest remunerative
figure, thus carrying out the principle

(To be Continued, if Approved by the Public, Sanctioned
by the Police, and Permitted by the Societies for the
Protection of Animals, and the Prevention of Cruelty
to Women and Children.)

of providing the masses with recrea-
tion that would be cheap as well as
elevating.

THE FORTIFICATION FOX
HUN TO EARTH.

This seems the costliest brute to
hunt, and the most difficult to catch,
in sporting records.

Now the Shoeburyness experi-
ments have shown that he isn’t to
be caught in iroD, let us hope he may
he run to earth, at least, and secured
in the cheap form of fifty-foot dykes,
such as two thousand navvies could
fling up in forty-eight hours in any
part of England threatened by an
enemy. Building up 15-inch screens
of iron, to knock them to pieces
with 15-ton guns and 500-lb. shot,
is surely throwing money into the
dirt, without getting protection for
it. Suppose we tried earthworks
instead of iron, and then if we threw
our money into the dirt, we should
at least throw a good deal less of it,
and get protection into the bargain.

MUSICAL PROBLEM.

Why do Players on the Violon-
cello always take snuff?

[Note by Printer’s Devil —Nobody
Nose /]_

The Best Uawn-Mower.—Mb.
Gladstone, with his Suspensory Bill.