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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-09
ANDOVER.

Andover Feb. 8 (speclap-The baseball Candidates
are drilling In light gymnastc exercise uhdef uo
supervision Of Professor Pettee, and Captain Searns
Of last years team. now Of Amherst, has been in
town several times for the OF directing the
work of those practising for places on the battery
one of tho incidents remembered with pleasure BY
the graduates of Phillips Academy is the senior sleigh
ride and class dinner The ride took place this year
ON January o. The class left Andover in the after
noon, going by way Of Bradford and Haverhili to
Lawrence, where an elaborate dinner was served at
the Franklin House S. S. Yardley ofciated as toast
master and responses made by several members
of the class and by Professors Coy and Graves rep
resenting the faculty. . .
The gIee and banjo clubs made their first appear
ance this year on February at the hImess given by
ceved
OF the members of this years football team five
intend 10 enter Yale next year. goes to Harvard
one to Williams and four will probably return to
AndOver.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-09

.n,o 9TH. cvnlc, was so amended that ten students
viii Hereafter constitute the board Of editors; 70 90
elected by the college at the close OF the Dcai
i've from the Junior class, four from tne Sopno,uvso
nioss and one 10 represent the Agricultural dePar
ment THE retiring senior editors VIII cohs"'u'9
committee to nominate the new DOau'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-09

CAPTAIN D. 4. Nesbitt, of Company 81 ser-
ceaut G.. S. Towle, of Company d; and Private
N. D. Lancaster, of Company II, we're ted foT the
second prize. Lieutenant s. w Merritt. OIL on pI.
pany b. the first prize with the relnar Aa'ie
score of ten straight bullseyes.
The following men have won sharpshooeiIS
medals in addition to those whose names nave d.
ready been printed: non -nn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-09
COOK ACADEMY.

Havana. N. y. Feb Speciality the VIII Oh sii,
Helen Randall Cook Academy ian independent Us
school founded by the late Charles Cooh) WIN
goo 600 This amount with the $4,000 receiver an'
wear places the school in good hnahciai ooii'A"'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-09
MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

Amherst. Mass. Feb. (specrAll Fourteen cand
dates for the baseball team have gone into training
under Captain W. C. Paige. 81.
Professor C. ID. Warner ectured on Tuesday evening
at CRANKY.
IL. +. Shores. L. T. Clark and f. S. Hoyt were the
college delegates 10 the Y. NJ G. A. convention at
Wlllamstown
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23

larry the north, the ice and snow, col
lectlng iof ages, has accumulated until
1t is d mile thick In some places. AS it
never melts, the surface is tolerably
smooth 1t is the discharge of ice by
means OF glaciers that keeps the supply
down
The weight Of the snow pressing from
the center to the edges forces the ice
into the sea 1t flows down the valleys
as rivers do, and, reaching the sea, is
! broken off into icebergs. Greenland,
therefore, is one huge iceberg factory as
we'll as refrigerator which, with it's
stock OF millions upon millions of tons of
ice stored up for eternity, has a tremen-
dous erect upon the temperature of
! everything within hundreds of miles of
it, and no doubt upon the climate of this
| country.
Lieut. Peary gives the following brief
outline of his plans:
In July the party, numbering five or
six, Will golnto winter quarters at Whale
Sound, TO make reconnoissances and lay
in supplies for the journey toward the
pole. Next spring an advance party
will be sent forward to establish de-
pots of supplies, and the main party
will follow, proceeding as far north as
Here a second depot will be estab-
| lished, and two or three of the party,
with full sledges, will push on, the others
returning with light sledges to Whale
Sound.
The advance party will push on from
Petermann ford to the head of Sherard
Osborne ford, establish a depot there,
thence to the head of De Long ford, es-
tabliSh a depot. thence to the northern
terminus of Greenland.
This point reached and determined,
the advance party will retrace it's steps
to Whale Sound, taking up the various
depots, and seize the first opportunity to
return home.
he whole theory of the project is
based upon the fact that the interior of
South and Middle Greenland is known
to be covered with an uninterrupted ice
cap and the more than probability that
in North Greenland the conditions are
the same and the ice cap practically CO.
extensive with the land.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23
The Red Mans Bronco.

The toughness and strength of the
pony can scarcely be exaggerated. He
will live through winter that will kill
the hardest cattle. He worries
through the long months when the
snow has covered up the bunch grass
on q diet Of cottonwood boughs, which
the Indian cuts down for him; and in
the spring it takes but few weeks
for him to scour out into splendid con-
dition. He can go unheard of dis
tances.
Colonel R. [. Dodge records an in
stance coming under his observation
where a pony carried the mails 300
miles in three consecutive nights, and
back over the same road the next week,
and kept this up for six months with
out loss of condition. He can carry
any weight. Mr. Parkman speaks of
a chief known as lie Cochon, on ac-
count of his 800 pounds avoirdupois,
who nevertheless rode his ponies as
bravely as man of half his bulk. The
pony has often carried two people as
one. There is simply no end to this
wonderful product of the prairies. He
works many years. So long as he will
fatten up in the spring his age is i'm
material.
The absence of crest in the pony
suggests the curious query of what
has become of the proud arching neck
of his ancestors, the barb. There are
two ways of accounting for this. The
Indians gag bit, invariably applied
with a jerk, throws up the pony's head
instead of bringing it down, as the
slow and light application of the school
curb will do, and this tends to develop
the eve neck. Or a more sufficient
reason may be found in the fact that
the starvation which the pony under
goes in the winter months tends to de-
plete him of every supertiuous ounce
of flesh Bnlti3uO ore american.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23

minerals and extremely valuable speci-
mems of fossils. and the botanist, though
not as richly repaid for his labor as in
other parts of the world, can find plenty
to do among the lichens MOSES, grasses
and flowers of the country.
There seems to be q wave of curiosity
Just now about Greenland. for, in addi
ton to the two expeditions on the Kite,
at least two others have been fitted out
in Northern Europe Each, however,
has it's separate mission. While there
will be, to a certain extent, scientific
competition, the expeditions are not
likely to come to blows, or even to meet
Patriotic Americans will, of course, hope
that the Heiiprin party will carry off the
laurels.
The Kite, in which the party will
travel, is typical whaler, not beautiful
to the eye but powerful, seaworthy, and
Just about as unsuitable as vessel can
be made.
This craft to which the party commit
themselves and their hopes for period
of about four months, is bark built, but
barkentne rugged, and, though equipped
with all the sails vessel of her size can
possibly carry, she has an engine and
propeller. She relies chiefly on her can
vas, but the steam is useful in extri-
eating her from ice.
The Kites dimensions are III. feet
over all, 26.4 feet beam, and IA feet
hold. It's tonnage is $50 gross and 100
net. The engine is fifty horse power,
and, being a vertical engine, the builder
was enabled to place it we'll aft. This
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23
Arsenic and Ammonia.

The slow absorption of many poisons
changes in some more or less modified
form the complexion, but arsenic and
ammonia show their effect about as
quickly as any. The popular belief
that arsenic clears the complexion has
led many silly women to kill them
selves with it in small, continued doses.
It produces waxy, ivory-like ap-
pearance of the skin during a certain
stage of the poisoning, bat its terrible
after effects have become too well
known to make it of common use as a
cosmetic.
The effects Of ammonia upon the
complexion are directly opposite to
that of arsenic. The first symptom of
ammonia poisoning which appears
among those who work in ammonia
factories is discoloration Of the skin
of the nose and forehead. This gradu-
ally extends over the face until the
complexion has a stained, blotched
and unsightly appearance. With peo-
pie who take ammonia into their sys-
TENS in smaller doses, as with their
water or food. these striking symptoms
do not appear so soon. The only
effect of the poison that is Visible Tor
time is general unwholesomeness
and sallowness of the complexion.
Many people are slowly absorbing
ammonia poison without knowing it..
The use of ammonia in the manufac-
lures has greatly increased of late, and
it is unquestionably used as an adulter-
ant in certain food preparations.
Official analyses have plainly shown
it's use even in such cheap articles Of
everyday consumption as baking pow
ders. The continued absorption of am
monia in even minute quantities as an
adulterant in food is injurious, not
merely from it's effects upon the COM
plexion, but because it destroys the
coating of the stomach and causes
dyspepsia and kindred evils.
Professor Long, of Chicago, IS au-
thority for the statement that if to fifty
million parts of water there is one part
of ammonia the water is dangerous.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23
Gambling in England.

In aristocratic society in England
gambling has always been one or the
agencies to while away time and get rid
of the guineas. Very nearly all the
ladies bet or the races, and incline TO
any gambling that is going Many OF
them meet regularly for baccarat;
roulet, or any other banking game, and
lose and win appreciably. Englishmen
who gamble for high stakes, however,
always do it away from home, at their
clubs, or in private quarters. AS an
instance Of how your lordly Brlt1sher
backs his Judgment. one Londoner'
few weeks ago. in an afternoon lost
$35. Coz to q friend, but retrieved this
and won s75 600 more from his oppo-
nent before dinner. The only CLUB no"
given to high play is the very ar1s5o-
cratic organization known as the
Ceecee Tree Club, in St. James street,
st. James Square. This is not far from
the quarters of the Field Club, Whlcn
was raided and broken into by the po-
lice last wear. This latter was not
club, but a private hell run by man
named Seaton. for the express purpose
of pluclinp Young and plunging mem
bers of the aristocracy. The game was
baccarat, and individual losses od noo often
ranged from $4,000 to sloo. oOo III a
single night. The group OF players
who were captured and arralgneo n
court embraced a dozen names PROM
nent in the peerage, but they were dis is
missed with light fines. After nlgn5
in Jail Seatons the proprietor, escaped
with a fine Of 50. 500, which, as ne had
made fortune out of the place, he was
entirely willing to pay
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23
THE STEAM wHALER KITE.

gives the propeller short crank shaft,
and lessons the liability to breakage.
Its normal speed is seven and half
knots with steam, and with both sail
and steam fully nine knots As pro-
lection against ice while running free
the Kites bows fifteen feet back are a
solid mass of wood, the timbers being
dovetailed together. A vertical strip of
iron passes from the bowsprt down the
nose under the water line and some dis
lance along the keel. The iron is
inches wide and inch thick. Straps of
iron inches wide and IL inches thick
are bound around the nose horizontally
to snub the ice. From the stern two
thirds of the way forward the sides are
doubly planked Both sides down to the
keel forward are also doubly planked.
She has had plenty Of experience among
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23

for.
Lieut. Peary said that the chief OBJ
iect sought to be accomplished by the
expedition is the solution OF the prob
lem whether Greenland is an island or a
continent. III. it is continent, and it
seems to me that the weight of the evil
dence is that way" Lieut. Peary con-
tinued, ''the vexed question OF the find
ing of the north pole will have been an
swered in the affirmative, for it will be
necessary, in order to reach the pole,
only to penetrate further and further
into the frozen country along the line of
the western coast of Greenland. If it
shall be proven that Greenland Is con-
tinent many lives of explorers who
might seek to reach the pole by sailing
north will be spared.
In some parts of Greenland, particu-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23

Doth. and admitSDR. WIN. r. f. HUGHES.
travelling which might be called lux
Ious when compared with journeys
sr the Jagged, frozen sea.
1ne0f the reasons for believing in the
Isteflee of a~ehannel at this point, con-
ctinK the two oceans, is that a heavy
w of water comes down the coast 1t
mes, probably, from the Atlantic, be-
use the tides can be identified as At
ltic tidefas opposed to those OF the
Whefhef these 400 miles between
eenland and the pole are filed in with
ly d froZen ocean broken up into an
passable ice gorge, or whether there is
chainIof islands giving tolerably easy
cess 10 the pole is, Of course, yet TO be
tern1ined.
peary and his party will be alb e to do
tic balt preparatory work during the
asenE year. The Kite will convey
sm 1e some suitable spot in Prudhoe
nd md they will so into winter quar-
Is Immediately, where they will wait
til neNt summer for their great dash
the Northern limits. They will de-
erataly get frozen in there for the
inter- All the expeditions which have
lie Tor the pole have met this fate, but
By hnve had the disadvantage of being
ShISS which were likely to be "nipped"
nSInk.
W5n not be until next year, there
!, tai the fruits of Peary's eXplora-
Is. can be plucked.
It'll he Heilprin party, however, the
] ls different. After depositing
nd his effects in the most shell
ed nnok it is possible to find, the
inv 8tle Kite will take to her heels
Ilaa0 the other party at points along
co0sk favorable to the determination
imp6fan facts missing in the scien-
j history of Greenland
onSlHAring their well-known ability
rAq6eity for research, the discover
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23
The Old Man Was a Little Off

"John, pass the cream" said man
to his son at the breakfast table in q
West Side boarding house.
"There is none," mildly suggested
the youth.
WHAT" roared the parental parent.
"There amt drop"
young man, hand over that milk
pitcher or I'll knock the whole top of
your head off !" exclaimed the irate
paternal parent.
easy now, old man; you've given
me too many lessons in lying to try
and palm off West Side milk for
cream. Don't forget yourself, pa, and
remember, if you can, just where we're
boarding. n=KemtAcku Journal.
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les of the Heilprin party are likely to
be more diverse and interesting than
even those of Peary. The region to be
traversed is very rich in animal life, and
it is intended to secure specimens OF
every creature that will kindly come
within the range of the very effective
guns that will be carried.
Polar bears, wolves, foxes, seals, rein
deer, musk OK, walruses, and scores OF
animals almost equally interesting are
to be found about Whale Sound. Insects
and birds fill the air. On land there are
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23

ceal the tiny eyes when viewed from
above.
"You are not obliged to call him
Helioderma horridum all the time, !"
said Mr.. Giles. "Some people call him
Helioderma suspectum, and others the
ella monster. [ call him Tommy
Here, Tommy"
Mr.. Giles clutched the reptile af-
fectionately between his finger and
thumb and set him on the floor. He
moved as leisurely and dignitiedly as
if he were at home on the sands OF
Arizona. His forked tongue flashed
necessarily in and out, his eyes rolled
and he looked altogether as if he might
be an uncomfortable customer to deal
with were he to take notion in that
direction. For three years he has lived
in Chicago and has succeeded in grow
ing fat on two eggs per week for nine
months out of the year and Lenten
fast the remaining three. The eight
hour day has no charm for Tommy.
He only asks for three months sleep
and then he is ready to enjoy himself
for the rest of the year. When he is
at home he is the subject of more hair
raising tales than any DeaSt OF his I'll
mansions. but Mr.. Giles will not even
concede the fact that he posses drop
of poison in his whole anatomy.
"He is especially interesting" said
his owner, "for he forms the link be-
tween the lizards and the crocodile
genus. He is probably the only speci-
men in captivity besides brother in
the Smithsonian Institution, and his
race is almost extinct. "-Chic ago
GT0He
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23

due north in company,
and afterward to separate and do alone
the work that will have brought each
into the arctic region, are Lieut.. Robert
E. Peary's party, to determine the north
ern extent of Greenland, and the com
Dany of scientists under command OF
Prof Angelo Heilprin of the Academy OF
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, who
willascertain the physical facts about
what is probably the most interesting
section of the same country.
Although Greenland was cOlOniZed by
Europeans thousand years ago. very
little is known about its interior, and
nothing in relation to its extreme north
ern Boundary. Some people claim that
it isa continent stretching perhaps as far
as the north pole, but geographers gener-
ally agree that it is an island, and that
there is an ocean passage connecting the
Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic not very
far north of the most northerly point so
far reached on the west coast of Green
land.
This theory is borne out by the con-
fgura ton of the coast line, which mar
roWssOn both coasts toward the north,
and II requires very little imagination to
round out the island, making the north
ern limit cross a line about 400 miles
fromthe north poe.
Lieut. Peary's idea is to reach this
limit establish stations there, and make
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23

the icebergs. Mr.. Bowring, of the ship.
ping firm of Bowring & Archibald, OF
New York, the agents of the Kite, says
that if she hit an iceberg it would be a
very bad thing for the berg.
Whalers of this kind go north, loaded
to the gunwales with coal, and if they
are specially fortunate and catch their
whales quickly. they heave the coal
overheard to make room for the oil.
The Kite may bring back whale or
two, but the plans of the party are to
make its geological prices much more
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23
Entertaining Reading.

Farmu'-That was stavin' paper
you got out last week.
County editor-I am glad to hear
that you were pleased with it.
Farmer-Them stories you had In
about them fellers bein' cured of long
standin' diseases were the entertain
ingist bits of news I've read for long
time.-The HunloriSt.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23
Adding Insult to Irjury.

While conversing with Miss Esmer-
aida Longcofin, an old maid of Hous-
ton, Texas, she asked a young man in
bantering tone:
"How old do you really think am ?"
about thirty" he replied.
you are joking" said Miss Long
coffin, Indignantly.
well" said the wretch. looking at
her more critically, "you can't be
much older than thirty-fve or forty. !"
TEXAS SJti11gs.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23
Charlie Play ed the Game.

"Charlie isn't at home just now"
said young Mrs. locker to neighbor
who had dropped in to spend the even
ing. "He said he was going down to
the club for little freeze-out. l don't
know exactly what that is, but I'm
glad if he can find any cooling bever-
age during this awful weather. =
WGshi410tO71 Post.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23
NUMBER z.
HUMOR.
Twas His Biz.

1t happened at Springfield. Scene
barber shop.
Victim Ito barber)-Is this your es-
Enlistment
"No, only half of it is mine"
$50 you have partner?"
"The man at the next chair owns the
other half"
why don't you own his share?"
"That's my business"
SWELL, if you own one-half and the
other halls your business, why don't
you own the shop?"-Boston Com
mercidl Bulletin.
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True Economy.

De Jinks-W Where dye get that suit ?
Finchy-At Wastes.
De Jinks-Then you paid two prices
for it, my boy.
Finchy-Oh, no, didn't.
De Jinks-Well, you paid more than
it was worth
Finchy--Nixy! Fact is, haven't
paid for it at all.-Ma17asey's Weekly.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23
A Cool Suggestion.

Checkley Spatis me! 1
WEAKLY don't know what to do this
summer to occupy my mind!
Sally De Witt-Why don't you take
a trip to the Antartic Ocean? There's
absolutely nothing going on there. -
Puck.
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varied than those of whaler. DR..
Hughes expects to have carnival
among the birds of Greenland and fill up
large part of the steamers tween
decks with bird skins, eggs and nests.
DR.. Sharp will carry a Winchester rife
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23
Is Would Seem So.

"My salary las been raised" said
he, "and l thsAk I am in position
now where l can safely ask you to
name the day"
"It would look that way to any one
who could see u.s." said the blushing
maiden seated on his knee. Indian
GpOIjs Journal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23

h o little north of
le poin is w h er e
AIRY Payer, De
ong, and Greeley.
tt off, assuming
at Greenland is an
land, and that fu-
re eXped n S
III probab bly, be
ade ] n s tro n g
halehpats, carried
sections over the
o cap which covers
10 c0nntrv. The
rfatse Of the cap is
h M ~ n y n I i V a. "
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23

two adventurous par
ties, one section Of
which intends to lay
out a route. for some
future expedition to the
north pole, the other
bent ION the scientif-
ic exploration OF the
mort h w e S t coast of
Greenland.
The two bands which
have pooled their is
sues and arranged to
travel about 5000 miles
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23
S triCtly Pure

Strictly Pure.
Customer-This ground coffee, you
say, is perfectly pure?"
Salesman-P erfectly, ma'am.
Customer Then how does it happen
hat you sell it cheaper than the UNI
ground coffee?
Salesman-Er-ma'am -er--
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23
CE-BOUND GREENLAND
ME SCENE OF NEW EXPLOR-
81 ING OPERATIONS

lieutenant Peary and a Party Bound for
- Jaunt to Determine the Country's
Northern Limits and Lay Out Route
Howard the Pole.
From New York there has sailed
ittle bit of whaling vessel-the Kite
veil seasoned to the arctic waters, with
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COat-Shedtiing Time.


Little Dot-Mamma, please give me
whole lot of moth paper.
Mamma-W What for?
Little Dot-To pack my Kitty away.
Her fur is all comm off.-Street d.
Smiths Good NelCS.
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nose Stations the starting point of an
ther Expedition to the pole ittelf
This same latitude has never been
sached by any of the many polar expe-
Akinns- The scheme. therefore. is to be-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-23
Circus of His Own

Wooden-Did you 60 to the circus
Bulfncn-No, I didn't need TO.
Wooden-Why? - on,
Bulfnch-We had twins at ou1