, 1881-12-25
Dr.. Dallie. Who Dallied Around With
in 40: Miles Of It in = =:
80 1885. -, 4: 4. r.,
Hans Derrick, Who Smoked His
Pipe Within 25o Miles Of
It in 1859. s... -.
auolhsr Du.ebman Nhs Went Within s. Miles el
Hin 1910, and Came Back aad 4
Discovery Of The Pole Itself 500 Years Ago,
and What Saint Nicholas Had to -
Do with H. II s. .

about. because nobody knows anything
about it, and II you happen 10 say .wAa1 =
not true, US most likely you Will, nohoay
can prove 1t. There IS no newspaper pno-.
ushed there, and therefore you can never oe
conradIcted. You can crlticise the pole.
say 1t Isn't straight, or that It Is rotten on
one side, or shaken, or anythlnR-ana
vet not tread OIL any ones toes, because there
is nobody there with toes to be trod on ex-
cept the bears, and they can bear lt Win
more fortilude than any other sect we Know
Of In fact, these bears have always been
mtsrepresepted III all the pictures ever nlads
of the Arctic regions, and yet have never
nais any attention to their. maliEuers
They are always depleted as standing
still and = waiting for :. some sailor
to come up and : looks- u harpoon
into their hlnd-Quar1ers preparatory: to ileav-:
ing them On board by line to the ships
viudlass, The truth Is, the bear las always
too much business on hand to be lettering
around in that fashion. To say nothing
about other occupations. q great deal OF the
bears time is spent in climbing the pole, Just
as they do in the Geological Gardens. That's
why they are called polar bears. =" iSrs:.
But there has been. and is yet, even more
MISREPRESENTATION and Ignorance about the
pole itself than about the bears. :.s. =
4 PORTUGUESE cLAM-sHELL.
The Portuguese were not only the most
enlightened but the 1nosr daring navigators
of tho thirteenth aud fourteenth centuries.
They wanted some other route to the East
Indies than that through tbs Mediterranean
and Red Seas, and finally discovered 1t
around the Cape of Good Hope. But for
thesn the North was full OF terTors and
suap-judgmeDts. :: Portuguese: sea,nen be-
lieyed that :. at the North Pole there
was an enormous. clam-shell which held its
mouth open untilzsome ship sailed In and
ttcn it suddenly clapped shut and gobbled it
up like Louisiana alligator catchintgs
mosquitoes, This vas only a shorthand
popular understanding of what Is being
gradually developed by all subsequent OBJ
selyations and explanattons-v1z: thai there
is an open Polar Sea, but that from about
latitude SO to s. there is ring or barrier of
ice which Is open in the summer for few
months, but closes suddenly about Septem-
-, txEwroN's GREAT DISCOVERY.
Then Sir Isaac Newton-wilo was always
an inQnisitiye man-began to discover, or
rather to surmise, queer things about the
pole. The first OF these was that the earth
whirlad around SO rapidly that there was a
tendency of ail its u1iddla parts to fly: OF,
in short to-: burst Just like some
OF the biz: grindstones do In some
Of the great cutlery WORKS. ! Then
q Frenchmau named Richer discovered that
2 clock aregulated to mean time'' (,yliat
else could it mean but time p at Paris would
lose about two minutes and thirty seconds
daily at the euuator-ll1at is, that it would
run slower at the ca uator and faster at the
poIe tf,au at Paris. Then somebody else dis
covered that a degree of latitude was longer
~ ~, III, .,o, ot 4te ac,,.t,r This WAS :,
,.a~-. .a-,fusi,,g t;.novarv naca,sa twas in
c;r,o1 no,,trav.ntion of oi, ,.x,urirnfa: It hr-
i,,1 ,,a,f Eno,yn that; everything contiacts or
a;,Sin;s,,ss =, s;ze from the effects of cold.
Ne ;s Illustrated bp t,,e animal contraction
~ +t,o c,,rrs1,cv ohont .Novamher and Ia
'a,,,,,ar ~ ne Nara,tha,ass - ,,,on thasa facfs
Ct 1s,ac .~' :. rr;vt.d : a. rhe conclusion,
that tho eartI, was not round. Init was
.,n o,,t,tn !" en,,aroid. of ,xhfrI, 1hp
t,ia,netpr MT the ,,ole was as eW: to go
At rho eouatnr Ite 1,s,,allv knew wi,at he
.vos t,Iling: ahont-: H.. Knnw t},at IN accord.
snca with this theory things we're not ouit.,
sn ,.av,r,a r,at the en,,ator ar At the noIrs-that
t,,a,. d,d MT fail anite "a ran1dIv .nnr strike
a':s oA@ NV t~ .,.~ s;., fs,i,.: -, :
quite so hard when they d1u 1ais'as tae
equator as at the poies->. Hence he was en-
abIed to make HI exact calculation Uf tie
,i,n.. r. ro,,,d ,n1ya an sn,1e tn fall from~ a
49, ~ ,o.:..ae - E.,.,s,,d 1I;o n,t.,,,,
t1ee III tne 1autuue VI GnE,a4io 111o ea'su
1auon pFo'eu eoi!ecI nnu :" s.sseu ~ ntn. NC
trouoie oi c'lntp'te ue uee alte, ue appte'
and also enabled ann 70 get 10 scnool JUST III
tiule to ayQld getting a fogging for being
late. This was tile origin Ut the sayiug thai
49,, ro,tos,, .s t,o. - ~ dro, i, ~, e,,ntna,
oue te.4o" nps CIV a.s 1Acs ~ -.
one "ieu ne aas secalea any ausan@aee "
HIM. <,' 49,. -. =. =: =: =
syMstEs' HOLE. =. H.. -*-
But then John Cleyes Symmes. took ur
.1,s 1haorr az the drnn where Nevton left
ts' u.soAJ y. s1s 49, -".aN. ..,s....s.'
OH. ana run " ln'o LIE grounos ol t'ln!eF ~"
the ceutr1 of the earth. Synn1nes lived al
Newport. Ky.. where he leclured and wrott
fro,n 1.an n 1s,s ami f,ra,lv nuhlIshed III,
~ .,n:..- .,.,.n1 r......'.,,.,;.
nooh on Ane Aneoty u Honcehttl'
Spheres" ip which he showed that In &C
cordnuce with these discoveries Of Newton
R;cb.r and ortera ,har. n,,,st he :, s,,ct;o,
',..,,., .e ~ .,,.. - = 49,.
OF Whirlpool " t"cI VI .ne poAes' '"aa 'A1ess
whir!pools wldencd as they descended, AM
that ttle world was hollow and labitablt