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I'- E THATt E DREAM WILL
NOW BE REALIZED,
#,leutenaut Peary : Will Make Another
Trip—Dr. Fridjof Nansens New Plan—
The Route He Will Follow and the
Equipment of His Expedition.
It now seems possible if not probable
that the dream of Arctic exploration
will be realized, and that, too, before
the close of the of the present century.
Lieut. Peary will 80011 set out again,
and proceed this time with the benefit
of a recent valuable experience among
the icy fastnesses of the far north, and
he is to have a formidable rival in Dr.
Fridjof Nansen, a sturdy Norwegian,
who will attack the problem on a new
plan with approved accoutrements and
in the light of the latest scientific know-
ledge of polar currents and ice -drift.
The latter intends -to set out next June
with twelve men-, provisioned for five
years, in a vessel so constructed that it
will rise from between the ice sheets in.
case of pressure instead of being crashed
by them.
Two of the seven boats are capable of
holding the entire crew, with provisions
for several months and warm tents, in
case the ship has to be abandoned. The
vessel is rigged as a three master, but
has engines of 170 horse -power and will
carry a balloon to be held captive for
purposes of observation. The lighting
will be done by electricity. The expe-
dition will be undertaken under the
'most favorable auspices. King Oscar
has taken great interest in the project
and was the first contributor to the
fund. Two -thirds -of -the expenses will
be paid by the Norwegian Government
and the rest has been subscribed pri-
vately, the Royal Geographical Society
having also shown its sympathy by
making a grant towards defraying the
cost of the trip.
The chief of'the expedition talks con-
fidently of success. He does not know
how long he will be absent. He says he
may be away only two years, _but feels,
certain he will be back by the end of five,-
years,
ve-years, and'comehome by the' opposite
route ti at fa td r'tote . cons
fidence; base(L sn` a now established
fact that besides minor renis which
flow soot ►ward in thooxarchiipela-
go of Nnith America, ewe iiarnense vol -.
ume of water flows southward between
Greenland and .Spitzbergen, much of
which is believed to come from the
rivers of Siberia and Alaska, and as
these waters have a comparatively high
temperature -the danger from ice may
not be so great as is generally supposed.
Evidences of the existence of this cur-
rent are numerous. Driftwood both
Siberian and American, is found every
year on the_ coasts of :Ureenland and
Spitzbergen. Pumice stone picked up
on the shores of Norway has an un-
doubted -Siberian origin, and so have the
dust and wood which have been gather-
ed from ice floes between Spitzbergen
and Greenland. After narrating these
facts in .a recent lecture at the London
University, Dr. Nansen, stated it as his
coiielusion that "The natural way of
crossing the unknownregion is to take
a ticket with floe ice, enter the current
s-omewhere near the New 'Siberian
Islands, and let it carry ns straight
across."
Dr. Nansen will proceed from Norway
to Nova Zembla, and thence eastward
to the mouth of the Lena, which is ap-
proximately in opposite longitude to
that of Greenland. Thence he will sail
northward the pack ice renders fur-
ther navigation impossible in spite of
the most strenuous efforts to push the
ship through the ice. The plan is to
run the vessel as far as may be into the
ice and let it stick there for the winter,
or perhaps forever. The party Will then
move on in a northerly direction in the
boats on the ice, the expectation being
it will be assisted by nature instead of
fighting against her. The theory is that
the explorers will be taken by the drift-
ing of the ice floes right across the polar -
region down into the -East Greenlazl t •
sea between Spits r and Greenlan ,
having in this way and pawed;
the pole. z
By next Augast tuber the ex.
plorers will haik4tinettedethe northerrn'.
limit of open' -water north from those
islands, and entered upon the region of
ice, shut out from the rest of the world,
andwith no hope of return save in the
currents which their leader believes to
run right across the polar area. If he
be mistaken they may never come back.
If the theory on which he is working be
correct, and no unprovided for occur-
rencesprevent it, the party will "come
out on the other side" after having
mastered the problem which it has cost
many lives and much money in the ef-
fort to solve. Many people may be of
the opinion that the discovery, if made,
'will not be worth what it rhas cost,' but
we cannot be too sure of that, for same
of the grandest practical results have
grown from discoveries that at first
seemed to be unimportant. There may
be no legitimate ground for hope that'a
colony can be planted at or near t
pole, or even that the new route will
mover be commercially practicable,. but
•the achievement may. add vastly;..to the'
present sum of knowledge,.; which is a1=
most every day turned to some new ac-
count in providing for the is and
increasing the ooin q t b
Chicago Tribunie. -
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Defects in Popular Education.
President Eliot's article in the De-
cember: Forum on "Defects in Popular
Education" is attracting the wide con-
sideration it deserves. The Nation says
it contains more meat than any other
paper on the subject that has appeared -
ed a long time. It will' do good especi-
ally by provoking discussion and by
presenting old methods in a new light
and thus tending to break up the rou-
;tine and the formulas that are so apt to
,,petrify in educational. methods. He
pleads especially for a better training of
the reasoning powers in the child or
youth and for the more systematic in-
struction in writing good . English.
"We have expected," he says, "to teach
sound reaseni3ig incidentally and indi-
rectly, jest as wehave expected to teach
young people to write good English -by
teaching them foreign langtiages. It is
high, time that we taught the young by
direct practice and high "examples to
mason justly and effectively." -
• Subagueotte Photography.
Photographing under -water has ac -
Aunty been tried- out, so it is said.
riinenta were ntarliti,in 1886 in the--
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1rFt Gi $ OF TRE MEMORY.
Speakers snd Writers d ometimea Confront.
ed With Embarrassing Difficulty.
One of the queernesses with which
writers have to contend is an occasional
puzzleheadedness:. over a perfectly `well-
known point of .orthographyor gram-
mar. A word that one- has probably
spelled correctly all one's life suddenly
swerves into the doubtful orthography
column. Is it "ingulf," "engulf" or
"engnlph?" one -queries, with pen pois-
ed. Is it "appal" or apall? "Fantasy"
or "phantasy?" and so on indefinitely.
To be sure, there is the dictionary, but,
asks the Boston Commonwealth, who
wants to learn his A B C's over again or
look up the spelling of. everyday wordsl
It is a curious fact that, left to them-
selves, the ` fingers will generally spell a
word correctly. It is in the hesitation
that certainty is lost. There can be no
doubt that the fingers of a writer ac-
quire a sort. of automatic education.
Even when a doubt as to the right spell-
ing of a word has crossed the mind the
hand will usually bring the letters into
form if given its course. It is as if it
consciously reasoned, " I have always
driven the pen so and so, having begun
so!" But once hampered by the spirit
of investigation, the irresolute hand in-
' clines toward the unabridged.
The matter is worse where parts of
j speech entangle themselves. Rules and
regulations flatten themselves out and
I only a helpless floundering among
pronouns, antecedents and correla-
tives seems for the time pos-
sible. In one of Wilkie Collins'
published letters he writes: "For
the last week, while I was finishing the
story, I galloped along without feeling
it,. like the old post horses. Do you re-
member how the forelegs of those post
horses quivered and how their heads
drooped when they came .to the jour-
ney's end? That's me, my dear, that's
me. Good God! Is 'me' grammar?
Ought it to be `I?' My poor father paid
$80 a year for my education, and I give
you my sacred word of honor I am not
sure whether it is 'me' or 'I.' " Prob-
ably Wilkie Collins could have made a
pretty straight guess on this point, but
those little aberrations come upon its
sometimes when we should be slow to
stake anything upon our correctness;
though another person, blundering in
the sinewaywould be instantly ar-
raigned before the bar of our -correct
= -and scandalized " judgment just ;as .we
serve merited condemnation upon fel-
low mortals who display the identical
faults of which we are ourselves guilty.
Voluble speakers and voluminous
writers probably experience little of
this trouble. The spouting geyser, of
words never fails them,' and fol ,this
they are to be congratulated; yet it is a
consolation to those of less oratorical
ability to know that great writers and
speakers learn to curb their flowing
speech rather than give - vent to it.
Prof. Shedd states that in the last. half
of Webster's public .life he learned to
reject the vague words that come thick
and thronging when the mind is aroused.
He grew more select and precise, and
presently, as one said, "every word
weighed a pound." This style of speaking
or writing cannot be driven through with
the velocity enjoyed when one is more
careless of results. The word. fitly
chosen is the word to be striven for, and,
such is the .perversity of inanimate
things, it is precisely the word that
sometimes fails to ceme at call.
• How Noted People Have Died.
King David died of old age, says the
St. Louis Globe -Democrat ; Louis XVI.
died on the scaffold; Richard III. was
killed in -battle; Abraham Lincoln was
assassinated ; James A. Garfield ' was
assassinated; Charles I. of England was
beheaded; -Louis V. was poisoned by.
his queen; Mustapha II. was strangled
in prison; Darius Codomanus was killed
in battle ; Attila the Hun died in a
drunken spree; Millard Fillmore died
of paralysis at 74 ; Andrew Johnson
died of paralysis at 67; Achmet III. was
strangled by his guards ; Chester A.
Arthur die.f apoplexy at 56;' Louis I.
died of aver during 'a campaign
James II. ,died in exile of gluttonous
habits ; Mrva was supposed to have
been poisoned; General Grant died of
cancer of the throat at 63 ; Emperor
William o€ rmany died-, of , old age;
Tiberius Wait', smothered by- one of his
favorites ; Louis V. was poisoned by
his mother and his wife ; Solyman
I. was dethroned and murdered in
prison ; Henry VI. of England was
murdered in prison ; Mustapha 1. was
deposed and strangled in prison; Charles
;II., Le Fou, Was deposed arid 'died in
prison; Georgb W. died from a compli-
cation of disorders; Feodor II. of Rus-
sia was assassinated in church ; John
A,damspassed, away at 91 'from senile
ddbllity; Queen' Aims. died of dropsy,
brought on by brandy; Gregory V. was
driven from Rome and died in exile;
Louis Napoleon died in exile at Chisel-
liurst, England-;, Adolphus of Germany
fell at' •the 'battle' of Gelheim; John
Tyler died at 72 from a mysterious dis-
order; Richard II. is supposed to have
been starved to death; Jehoabaz. king
,films; jdied in captivity in Egypt;
Lotfiaare'of France, was poisoned by fee
male relatives; George L died from apo
iplexy, induced by drinking; Pope Lando:
jamas 'supposed to have been poisoned;
Feodor I. of Russia . was deposed . and
died in prison; Gustavus Adolphus was.
laked in the battle of Lutzen; Sultan
Musa-Chelebi was deposed and stran-
gled; Pope Donne 11 died suddenly,,
,presumably by poison; Pope John X.
died in prison, it is believed by poison
Solomon died of weariness at the vanity •
of human life, and Josiah, king of
Judah, was killed in battle at Mejiddo •
by an arrow.
Political nvovorb .;•. fi . *.
Purifyin' polliticks s APO!wor
Sivil servis eforrn ether zio moss.
Some statesmefl a ' small. pertaters
few in bill;,
Thi , q '> •• _ ,ashen of a candidate
is, c�at"t ar?
It's ape y hard job' to tell political
onestg-when you see it.
A pattriot may die for his country,bnt
ez a rule, he'd rather not.
When the ,o is wates fer the man in
this Dominion somethin' ain't rite.
Wimmen that air well treated at
home mostly ain't hankerin for votes. -
The candidate that got 'em ain't goin'
to worry about how sertin votes whiz
got, of nobody else don't.
Oldest Dtanuseript of the -World.
The. oldest East Indianmanuscript in
the world; arid one -of the oldest existing
niaausenpts of any kind, has recently
beertdng up just outside of a subter-
ranean -city near Kuchar. It is written;
on birch- barb;` and tains two medical
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