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The Mysterious North.


otther or not there is such thing as an
5openP Polar Sea has long been matter of dis
VI p1te, Some physicians declare that there
lpiust, of necessity, DC such sea, while 9TH
q q ers as broadly deny its existence. Two cen
turtles of research have, however, failed to en-
( hghten the world deufitcly on the subject
SsSfand no explorer has yet attained to the point
arrived at by Parry in 1925 Many, how
ever, still believe that passage to this sup
SsGpositious oxpanse of water can be made hn,,
tween Spitzbcrgcn and Greenlapd -. ,n, ,hpt w.
nortbern shore Of Cell omlana ' H.. "'u ."'' ,"o
IS:s,.raao ''opon Polar Sea-" Nearly two years
ago, what is known us the German Artic Ex
B apedition, originated by DR.. Augustus Peter.
4 man, of Gotha, set out for the purpose Of dis
covering the fact concerning this long dis
50 Cussed problcm, and of making it known to
I the world.
The expedition was, originally, to include
three vessels. Only two started, however,
!, The Gcrmauia and IIansa These ships pro
N lceedod northward, intending to remain to-
gether BY ono of the fatalities that seem
insoperablc from these enterprises, they were,
notwithstanding, forced to part company on
July 20, 1869. The Gormania now proceed
I ed to skirt the cast coast of Greenland, max
i ing way steadily to tho north She penctra.
ted as far as Shannon Island but in lati-
tude 75o 81 she encountered the old trouble
The pack and land ice impcdcd her further
progress, and she returned to winter at Sa-
:e bino Island Here, in ten feet Of water, she
: was frozen up for The season on Septcmbet
27. The sun disappeared entirely early in
November, but by that time, happily, a good
stock of venson and other supplies had been
gathered by sportsmen from the ship, so that
there was no lack Of wholesome food. II
scem that slcdgiug parties were made up and
tried to get farther north they ouly man.
4 aged, however, to get as far as ITO L. Here,
they report the belt of ice to be several years
of age, and to present an impossible barrier
to. further progress. Rcindccr, musk oxen
aud smaller game were found, (Which ap.
pcarcd to como from the north" leading to the
presumption that tho north coast Of Greenland
runs west instead of extending on toward
tho Pole. The Gcrmania was not free from
the ice until the 2lst of July, 1870, when
sho again worked her way to the northeast
cape Of Shannon Island, to repeat the expert.
encc Of the previous year. impossible ice
once more blocked her way, and finally, her
boilers being useless, she got back to Bremen
under sail.
Meanwhile, her consort, the IIansa, was
driven to the south. She subsequently went
cast and north until she reached Pendulum
island. On the 9TH OF September she also
was frozen up in the ice. What was worse,
she was forced by the pressure fourteen feet
above the surface of tho water, and finally
thrown on her broadsidc on the ice By this
mischance she received such injuries that
when let down again, she sank. This hap
pcned in latitude 100 50, longitude 2lc
west. Her crew of fourteen men passed the
wintor on the ice. For two hundred days
they suffered frightful privations. One Of
the party went mad, but happily no lives
were lost, and at last, on the 18th of June
1870, the poor fellows succeeded with thci'
boats n reaching the Moravian Mission, al
taken to Copenhagen by the Danish brig
Constance Thus the object of this oxpcdi
was not attained by either vessel. Like
4 many enterprising attempts that preceded it,
this last effort has also failed. Still, many
useful Geographical and scientific discoveries
have, it is said, beon made through its means
The cast coast of Greenland has been shown
not to be the mere frozen waste it was popu
larly supposed to be. Other facts olctet
by the courageous efforts of the German
Arctic Expedition have lately been com
munioatcd to the Royal Geographical So
eety Of London, by Sir J.. McCintcock
We arc not thoroughly Informed respecting
their details. They are, however, Spoken
of as making important additions to tho cx
+ isting stock Of polar knowledge by such me.
as Sir II. Rawnson, Capt Sherard Osborn
Admiral Collinson, and others, SO that it ma,
reasonably be inferred that their valre is no
overratedsby the condensed accounts of th
European newspapers. .-NcD Yorh Times.
~ "a BEAUTIFUL IDEA THAT was beauti
full idea of the wife Of ON Irish shool master
who, while poor himself, had given gratui
tous instruction to poor scholars, but whcr
increased in worldly wealth began to thinl
he could not give his services for moth
ing. "James don't say like o that" sait
!the, gentle hearted wife, "a poor scholar DON
5s, oomo into the house that I don't feel as if HI
had byoughtfrosh air,f heaven with him
j never miss the bit give him my bear
d worms to tho soft homely sound Of his bar,
y feet on the floor, and tho door almost opens
sssslf 10 lot him IN e q