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LETTERS by airship is the latest novelty of the French postal system. A short time ago a party of military aeronauts ascended from [[?]] and steered for the war of [[?]]
When over the building the air-[[fought]] to a halt, and a letter [[addressing]] the minister of war, Gen. Picquart, in the car. Through their glasses is watched the missive in its de- has soon as it had been secured, aerostat and made their way back.  The ingeniuos method is employed to delivery of letters to the islands group in the Pacific. These island as they are by dangerous rocks [[?]], are difficult and hazardous of [[?]], and would often, were the ordinary of delivery employed, have to go [[?]], obviate this the steamer that nails is supplied with sky-rockets, which letters are projected across one on to the shore. [[?]] winter, when St.Kilda had no [[nication]] with the main land, they [[deposit]] their letters in small buoys [[?]]shapes. These are then thrown and are by the currents carried and, where they are rescued from and their contents taken to the office. A floating postoffice, con-ainted cask, is attached by chains at the extreme point of Terra del his strange office, which is under [[?]] of all nations, every pass-[[?]] a boat to post and collect  [[?]], in his "Leaves from the Life Correspondent," relates how [[?]] the siege of Metz, sent a message [?]] to the enemy's lines. A young [[?]]volunteered for the difficult task, [[his?]] teeth drawn and an artificial [[?]] was a hollow, substituted. In [[hand?]] a quill, within which was a [[?]], reduced by photography to [[minuteness.]][[Disguised]] as a beggar, he left the [[cities,]] to give color to the ruse, [[?]] ink cartridge at him as he fled. [[?]] by the Germans, he was [[?]] [[those]] in authority, to whom he [[?]] tale of his sufferings at the [[?]] that he was released, with [[?]] of condolence. He duly [[decision]].
[[?]]. New York 10 Mar 1907.
[[?]] HAD FIRST [[?]] BALLOON
[[?]] of a Flight Half a [[Century]] Ago To Be Made at Aero Club [[Dinner]]
LEXINGTON, Ky., Saturday.--[[Owl..]] [[continued]] severe weather here training the old Kentucky association course till. There are now nearly four [[?]] chartered here, and owners and [[?]] [[?]] for the opening up of spring. [[?]] made as yet toward holding a [[?]] this spring further than the [[?]]

AIRSHIPS WILL FOR [[VALUABLE]]
Expert Aeronauts Will [[?]] Events in
The amount of prizes, cups and cash offered for airships, aeroplanes, balloons,and heavier than air machines, is simply[[?]] astounding, and the fact that they are so large encourages the belief that [[?]] [[that]] eases the donors of the prizes [[?]] conditions will
Citizeu Brooklyn 10 Mar 1904.
U.S. BUILDING BALLOON "NO.10" TO BE MOST DREADFUL WAR ENGINE
 THE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS NO. 10 ON THE GROUNDS AT WEST POINT. SURROUNDED BY ARMY OFFICERS AND THEIR FRIENDS AND SECRET SERVICE MEN. THE BAG IS BEING FILLED AND THE BIG PIPE IN THE FOREGROUND IS THE CONDUIT FOR THE HYDROGEN GAS. If there is a war with Japan or any other country keep your on "No. 10." "No 10" is the first balloon, other than stationary that Uncle Sam has used for his army, and "No.10" will figure along with the numbers of regiments, and divisions of cavalry and artillery, in the future history of the United States. 
A company of officers are supervising the building of this new war machine on grounds of the military academy, and experimenting with other balloons at the same time, in order that No. 10 shall be strictly up-to-date and formidable when finished. 
The new balloon will have some distinct features which are as yet a secret. That they are important is shown by the fact that secret service men are guarding the balloon and allow only officers to closely inspect the parts. The Government is spending $12,000 on No. 10 and two other balloons of like size and type. No. 10 will soon be ready, and it will be shipped to Fort Omaha. Neb., which is now officially designated as an aerial station of the United States army. The work is being done by Leo Stevens, the inventor and aeronaut of New York city. 
The new balloon is unlike any of the other made for the United States army, and also differs from the types used by the armies of foreign countries. It is not cigar-shaped, and is not steered by propellers or rudders. So far Uncle Sam's balloons have been captive ones, useful only to study the position of the enemy. 
No. 10 will fill its capacious lungs with
hydrogen gas. It will weigh 1,700 pounds and have a lifting capacity of a ton. Such an unusual lifting capacity is said to have been erquired because of the War Department's intention experimenting with bombs and other heavy explosives. From No. 10 the army will be able to drop deadly bombs into camp of the enemy. Experts believe that this will revolutionize the art of modern warfare more completely than any other device used. 

No. 10 will have a capacity of 78,000 cubic feet of gas, and the netting over it will weigh 286 pounds. It will be fifty-six feet in diameter and the car will be six feet long, five feet wide and four and one-half feet high. 
CHILDREN AND CHURCH.
The Rev. Dr. Hillis, of Plymouth Church, has been doing good service by sharply calling attention to a lack of parental authority in the matter of church-going habits of children. He justly condemns the practice of letting children of even eight of nice years of age decide whether they shall go to church or not. Parents are altogether too indifferent in this matter, especially in cities, and it is a subject which the pulpit can very well treat with vigor.-Christian Intelligeneer.

PICTURE - WOMEN AT WORK ON THE BASKET CAR OF "NO. 10" AT WEST PO.NT. LEO STEVENS, EXPERT AERONAUT, WHO IS HELPING TO BUILD "NO. 10."

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