| Balloon: thing to take meteoric observations
and commit suicide with. - More Maxims of Mark, Merle Johnson, 1927 |
 AI image created by R. Kent Rasmussen |
| My scouts report that the balloon will not begin her passenger trips until
Monday. I was getting afraid they would fill my order for tickets on Sunday.
I preferred to draw the line for Sabbath-outrages at horse-racing. - letter from Paris, France to Lucius Fairchild, 14 June 1879 |
The
balloon depicted in this ad might have been the same one in which Mark Twain
ascended when he was in Paris:
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