A curious hit tie Lh-mA is an obi, oid
treatise oil aeronautics by JeftJ)
Jacques Uousss*au, caLJed "Le- Nouveau
DetlaLe."
Like Leonardtv da Vinci and Cyrano
de Bergerac. Rousseau was haunted
by the dream »f aerial navigation. We
read in his treatise: “Men walk on the
earth, they sail on the water and swim
in it. Is tea the air an element, like
the othersV What business have the
birds to shut us out of their premises
while we are made welcome in tshose
of the fishes7"
Rousseau took no stock tn any the
ories propounded by the I>arius tlreens
of his day. He sifted the matter for
himself and thought it involved two
problems. First, to find a body lighter
than air. so that it would rise. lie
imagined that sooner or later such a
body might present itself. There was
no telling
But what stumped him was his sec
ond problem how to make that oblig
ing body spip rising ami bow in erea
lion to main* it come down. This was
too tough a problem for .lean Jacques,
am! lie wound up bis book by admit
ting it.
For a I "tig time “I.e Nouveau l>e
dale" remained unpublished, appearing
only in l*ni
An Interesting Election.
The tenth presidential election, 1S24,
was unusually interesting. 'Twenty
four stairs took part, having gdl elec
toral votes, whirh were divided as fol
lows :
John ijir i , \Jitms .. S-i
Andrew J o ks ai . 9*.
