Punch,  23 (1852), 113.

Devastation from the Clouds!

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Meteorology, Aeronautics


    Explains that balloons have a worse effect on crops than showers or thunderbolts owing to the fact that they scare animals into trampling fields of crops.



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