Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-28
The Melancholy Result eff Too Much En- gineering Enterprise.
 From the New York Sunl

IFrom the New York Sun.1 In 1881 the North Pole and Equator Navi- gation company was chartered by the Conti- mental Congress of that section of the globe known as the United States of North and South America. The object of this company was to open and operate a canal between the polar land and the navigable waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
 This plan was considered feasible because explorations had been made by means of aerial conveyances which showed that the North Pole was the centre of vast conti- nent the climate of which was delightful and the productions of which were the most nutritious grains and delicious fruits. Its land was covered with vast herds and droves of edible four-footed animals Its waters swarmed with wild fowls of the choicest kind, and were stocked with fish of the most delicate flavor.
 In order to utilize these seemingly sponta- neous productions and make them beneficial to mankind, this company was organized. The exploration parties sent out had further discovered that the North Pole was surround ed by an open polar sea, the southern limits of which were vast precipices and ridges of ice ranging in height from one to two miles These ice cliffs were situated in latitude SO0 north.
 A capital of $1O0, ,0OO,O0 had been sub- scribed Operations were commenced, and, according to estimation, ten years would IA It was thought that vast amounts of ice from the barrier could be transported to the torrid zone and sold to the inhabitants at rates which would yield the company a great revenue.
 The work progressed rapidly, and the stockholders were joyous, anticipating heavy profits which were to arise from their enter prise.
 At last the work was completed, and tho day was named when the marriage of the wa ters of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans was to be consummated by the agency of man. The last barrier in the grand canal was to be re- moved.
 Grand aerial excursions to witness the ceremony and return were arranged. All the grandeur which modern civilization could suggest or contrive was to be displayed on the occasion
 Everything passed of according to the an nouncement. The final blow was struck. < he waters of the Arctic ocean poured through the chasm, not only poured, but they went roaring through, and continued to roar and pour until the canal was full They overfowed it's locks and banks The Gulf of St. Lawrence was full The waters of the Atlantic were raised to that extent that the entire American continent submerged. Still the waters continued to pour southward until the equilibrium of the earth was de- stroyed and it ceased to revolve upon it's axis, and the western hemisphere remained in the dark. Without the light and heat of the sun the intense cold congealed all that vast volume of water and froze all that re- mained of animal life which the water had not previously destroyed So intense was the cold that this huge field of ice was rend- ed into vast chasms, splitting itself asunder with terrific explosions.
 In the meantime the eastern hemisphere met with serious fate. This side of the globe being continually turned toward the sun, the heat became intense, immense fires ragged, and there was no one to stay the con- fagration. A few men had crowded into caves to escape from the heat and had met death by starvation. So intense was the heat that the fish were boiled in the sea, and at last all water disappeared, and not ves- tige of anything living or green could be found.
 And thus for centuries the earth continued to move forward as dead planet.