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A FLYING VISIT TO A FLYING MAN.

An Old Aeronaut Whitewashing his Orchard.

How He Discourses on Nature and Nature's Laws.

He is Preparing to Make Day and Night Voyages Through the Air and Carry With Him Newspaper Men--He Proposes to Make the Balloon a Sanatarium, to Cure Morbid Diseases, Liver, Lung and Kidney Complaints.

Our report, finding the bohemian business dull, wandered out to "Elm Cove Cottage" to visit the veteran aeronaut Wise, who has located himself about a mile south of Louisiana on a nice little farm. He found the professor, not in the clouds, but down on the solid earth, dressed in farmer garb and his top covered with a broad-brimmed straw hat, and by his side a bucket of white-wash, busily engaged in white-washing the stems of his fruit trees.

HORTICULTURAL CONFAB.
Reporter—Well, professor, how

hygrometic condition of the atmosphere; its effects upon the animal economy, with a view of settling some mooted questions in meterology, and the hygenic effects of air voyages. I have an idea, founded upon 40 years' experience, that aerial voyages will yet become the popular source of recruiting enervated humanity, since it acts so decidedly upon both mind and body at the same time.
R.—Have the two gentlemen named indicated a desire for these excursions?

FLYING EDITORS.
Prof.—Oh, yes; Mr. Cunningham is "eager for the fray" and Dr. Munford promises to "give the thing a big send off" from Kansas City if he does not go up himself.
R.-Have you any balloons on hand for these scientific trips?
Prof.—Yes, four of them—two especially made for long voyages, and large enough to carry provisions and passengers for sixty hours sail. Besides, I have a grandson, a born aeronaut; he took to the art as a duck does to water, when he was only 13 years of age. He has made over thirty aerial voyages, in all kinds of weather-rain, hail and storm, and never met with an accident. In his hands a balloon is as safe as a ship in the hands of the most experienced sea captain. He deems it an ordinary business, and to use his own words "that it is nothing to do when you know how to do it." 
R.—When do you expect to make these experimental aerial voyages?

SKY-COACHES COMING TO LOUISIANA.
Prof.—As soon as the large balloons are completed with their gas-tight coating, which will be applied here, right on my Chinese garden spot as soon as my son, Prof. Chas. E. Wise arrives with them, and he is on the way now from Philadelphia to this place, and for the purpose aforesaid.
R.—Professor, can you make these things pay?
Prof.—Not in the general acceptotion of the term, but in the advancement of science, and in adding an increment to the sum total of current human knowledge it pays well, because it gives unbounded pleasure, and that is all that we can have in this world, in some way or another. Why, Prof. Watkins of Ashley was to see me only a few days ago, with a view of getting a balloon for scientific explorations, solley from the love he has for scientific pursuits. As to pay, of course it requires means to carry it on, but the cost of it is always guaranteed in the general interest manifested for any one that has the confidence of the public in the ability to do it right. When I have convinced the health seeking people of the immediate good derived from the aerial voyage, especially the dyspeptics, it will become a better paying concern than the Hot-springs of Arkansas. It is the business that gives me such long life and health, as it did Prof. Green of London.
Now my dear reporter don't make a cock and bull story of this interview, as is the wont of some bohemians, but tell the truth, and nothing but the truth, and you will sleep better at nights; so good bye, and do not denounce aeronautics because so many mountebanks butcher up the art.