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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-15

l3s degrees 81 minutes east We then al
lowed the ship 10 be closed IN by the Ice.
AS anticipated, we were carried gradually
northward and northwsstward during the
autumn and winter. The Fran surpassed
our expectations. being superior 10 any
strain. The temperature fell rapidly and
was constantly low. with little variation.
for the whole winter. During weeks the
perafure was e2 degrees below zero.
health during the whole voyage. The
electric light generated by n windmill
fulfilled our expectations. The most
friendly feeling existed. ana time passed
pleasantly. Every one made pleasure his
duty. and better lot os men could hardly
be found.
Tho Polar Sea Not shallow.
'"The sea was up 70 ninety fathoms deep
south OF ~ degrees north, where the
depth suddenly increased, and was from
1.6oe 20 800 fathoms north OF that latitude.
This will necessarily upset all previous
theories based on shallow polar basin.
The sea bottom wns remarkably devoid of
organic matter. During the whole drift
j had good opportunity 70 take a series Of
scientific observations. meteorological.
magnetic. astronomical and biological u,
soundings. deep sea temperatures. exam
nations for the saiinlty OF the sea water.
etc. Under the strata OF cold ice water
covering the surface OF the polar basin I
soon discovered warmer and more saline
water. due 10 the Galf stream. with tenn
psratures from 81 degrees % . degrees
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-15

Cape Flora. ana under the most extraor-
binary circumstances. He had winterei
IN n rough hut within a mile or two or
our northern limit In 1885, and this spring
We unwittingiy came within a few miles
OF his winter quarters. DIR. Nansen left
the Fran with one companion. Lieut.
Sigurd Johansen. a lieutenant in the Nor
wegian navy. and director OF the astro-
nonical meteorological and magnetic OBJ
servatlons. and reached latitude s614.
travelling northeast from where
he left the Fran. which was in
latitude 81 north. longitude Joe
east. DR.. Nansen expressed the great
est surprise and llveliest satisfaction at
meeting with us. You understand how
greatly the meeting affected me and my
pleasure at the extraordinary chance
which had thrown II In my way 10 render
him service and restore him 20 his
friends"
Jackson then describes his own expert
ences in exploring the Western parts or
Franz Josef land. telling how he has
drawn extensive accurate maps and has
discovered new regions, and adding:
when the winiward left in 1895 We went
on a months expedition TO the northwest
in a little boat. the Mary Harnsworth,
and discovered a large tract of land 10
the westward OF hitherto unknown limits,
and a magnificent headland composed or
ice from it's summit 20 its foot and having
at its base huge. unapproachahle ram
part OF fee He named IL Harmsworth
cape, and only approached the base of
the headland with the greatest difficulty,
owing to the surging masses OF heavy ice
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80 s,s-so,ss gales, during which our boat
-. unn~ several OCCASIONS nearly
syss~1,ssf 70 atoms. We landed On TAG
80. - efssn as possible. ard assembled
80 sfxsess peaks ard made Numerous ge-
@roxss-xI ana sosan1cAl COLLECTIONS. Far ns
Cambridge bay Ne os~eossfTi aHsslAet
- 80 s~a8fassd ard named s. Cape
Firth OF Narsen-
.-T-ne spvsnx haa Se@r rhe-o7aefsal-y
r,sss Although @2 marched norfn q
rreas distance. nx3Hg atxtssn dogs aae
r.srx. vxe rssee atser = forfalgat open NAs-
sy. reaching fron TIE face q huge ga
ese- east 20 the prcciptcus s1a o. ea'
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Copyrighted by the Associated Press.
NSrdoe. Norway. Aug. 1.-THE captain
OF fAs Windwara. the British steamer
which had just rei.rnrf from Franz Josef
ana after taking supplies 20 the British
North pole expedition commanded By
jackson and known as the "Jacksus-
hSrmSworth" expedition. i,ed the teis-
graphsc messsage from Jackson here yes
tertay describing the accidental meeting
between Jackson ana Or. Nansen. one OF
the most remarkable incidents in the his
tory OF Arctic exploration:
ION June II I met Or. Nansen three
miles out on q foe soufh-southeaSt of
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we sax 70 land ard 10 open water ex-
espt narrow cracks. u asy direction. -
anfseafataa. Cur drift neFshsard vas most
rapla during ire winter ard sDTinE. while
tae nsrtherfY wgnaz ssop1~d or esiffe5 ~
backward during tne GUNNER On Juae
- 1ss4. we were 10 = degrees y rH4rates
rn-th. hs,s ve fsriftaa then sguthwaF4 only.
ss, October q we passed 8 degrees rerfh.
on chr.strrsas eve. 1ses. iatttsSe - eeErse4
north ~ss reached. ard a few aaFs safer
q degrees e minutes toe fartassk nofta
latitude rsregsoaztV reached ~ Euan.
s.Ju January and the kEam vas sx-
ScEe4 20 s.e Esozs v5ole1s DreA22EsS va
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Tsssoxss. ro-ns-asi1x Wfnx.on- The Psercs
soss-4y a~sezass< csztra that IRE ds2eEatfo1
carne here Instructed 20 vote as unst-
wasrh nas ssse- 1osA % 80 T1t4cs's break
TSttox ee-leG that ne delegation came
un1er una Instructions
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FUSION Is EFFECTED.
Democrats Get q Congressman
and Two Electors.
PoPuLisTs YIELD TO oRAToRY
James Hamilton Lewis and w. c.
Jones Named for Congress.

John b. Reavis, OF Yakima. for supreme
Judge-Gwfn Hicks for Printer-F.
j. Browne for superintendent OF
Public Instruction Patrick Henry
winston for Acknowledgement
Popuitsfs. Who Get Most OF the Of
noes. VIII Nominate Today-Popu-
lists Insist That the Fusion Ticket
shall BE Headed .Pcopie's Party
Ticket.
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ether iarEs gl2cser west a3vaace by
sieSsS was sA@s cm2 ofF. We then SsTar X
scuTasast down Markham Sclnd. and
added greatly - CIR discoveries - lSS.
kui we were again storrsa by open water
reaching entirely arrcSs the sound, 80
we turned westward ard saceeesses IN cS-
ploTsng tic entire western shores. During
April terrific sncwSterms. coupled vita
rises IN the temperature entirely broke
I'D The ice and prevented marching. bat
We took . number of valuable photo
graphs
PROF, Mcha says shat the scientific re-
suits q nr. Nanseass observations are
fnaSnitieent. and shas several islands have
been discovered
nr. Nansen's Own Stcry.
Lo7son. Aug. 1.-THE stnry u detail. by
the explorer hssnself % Or FrI3jof Nam
sens Ase;so expedition ard the adventures
of his party, together With the scientific
results obtained ne first % watch Il bis
success ~ peastratiHS TO the highest laii-
tu3e and hitherto not tro9 by the feet Of
men. namely. IS aesreeS Ia minutes north.
aresgiven 20 the world BY the Chronicle
this morning. following the story by Jack
son Of the finding of Nanssn contained IN
esseateh from Nardoe. Norway. yesser-
dav. 10 the Associated Press. nr. Nan
sen SAYS IN TIE Chronicle:
The Fram left lugor strait on August
:. IS3 We had 90 forcc our way through
much 9cc along fhe siberian coast.
We G discovered aE sand N tho
Kara sea and a great number % Islands
along The coast 20 cape CAeuHskin. in
several plares Ne found evidences of a
glacial epoch. turing which Northern ST.
IBERIA must have been covered by an In
land sea % "A great eNt~t, ON September
Is we were OF the mouth ~ OlsneN RIVER.
but We thought IL was TOO late 20 - Ia
there 20 fetch our Goxs. as We woah not
risk losing a year. We passed the New
Siberian islands on September =.
The Fram I'm the Ice.
1--WE made fast 20 Zoe I'm latitude y
tnr.~eas "a ,,,f-ssfmw t.-aN ana "A, f,~s4s,,8a a
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NEAR THE North POLE.
Nansen Turned Back When
Only 25o Niles Away.
HIS PROVISIONS GAVE OUT.
How He Reached the Nest yortherly
Point Ever Attained.
HIS PROVISIONS GAVE OUT.

Ihe Fran Drffts North. Frozen fn the
Ice-Then Nansen and a Companion
Push on With Dogs and Canoes. aud
After Many Adventures Reach Franz
Josef Land and Are Carried Back TO
Norway-Thc Fate or HIS ship Tn
known.
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Frsros TICKET. INCOMPLETE.


For Congrc~~men.
-A4ES HAMILTON LEWIS. Of King
.......................... Democrat
W. c. JONES. OF srokane. ......... .sglyerige
For Attorney-Gcnerai,
PATRICK HENRY WINSTON. OF spo-
h~ne ..'.-.-.-...-.-s.--..---.-. ssiyerits
For supreme Judge.
JOHN B. REAvT5. Of Yakima. Democrat
For state Printer.
GwIS HICKS. Q. Thurston. 80. Democrat
For super Intendent OF Public In
sfructfou,
y. J. BROWNE. OF Klnx. x......... .sllverite
For Presidential Electors.
TT. y. CATON. q whitman. Democrat
l. y. MAXWELL. OF whstcom. Democrat
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The Fram I'm the Ice.

I'VE made fast 20 n Zoe In latitude =
degrees 80 minutes north and in longitude
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''on August u we reached Apot to Slsi3
north ard - east. evldentiy well suited -
zgsuteyfrg. ard a. Il was now 700 late fer
ire voyage 70 Spitzhergen. considered 10
sfseat 70 stop and prepare for winter. Va
shot bears ard waFrusea and baln hssf or
stones. earth ard moss. making me roof of
walrns hide lied dawn with rope ard COW
ereA with snow. We used the blnDber for
cooking. light and heat. The bear riaas
ARD the Fluhber were our only food for
ten rngnthn The nearakira formed or
beds and sleeping bag. The winter. hoN~
ever. passed well. and We were bct1 -
perfect health.
'.sprlng came with snpshirs aud nlfn
much espea water 20 tns southwest vs.
hene.s "a have. an easy voyage 20 sFstz-
bergen over me foes ~ iee. ana 70 oDen
wsrer. We mere obliged 20 make nfw
egothsa from blankets. ard = neS slsepsnx
bag Of hearzkinz. our provisions wsre now
hear meat ard b.ufsber. Oh MAJ y va
wsrs a. Iast ready 70 start We came -
oren water on Mar a To AtS
rerta but wers retarded ~ Storms
aasi. Jans q 4 Aittis scafn Of = aesFs-s
ws foana lard extendtng westward aha
onen water ~nsea reached west nsFt 2 - -
along - no-A eoast. But ss 2feierrsa
10 ..aysl southwark oser sss Ice sar0axA
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''In the kayaks we made our way wssts
ward Ia open water afong thess islands,
and on August = We discovered land sx-
tending from southeast TO northwest
The country became more and rn0r@ p1x-.
zslnx, az I could ind 20 agrseEnsnt win
Payers map. ;hen thought ne were
IN longitude east cf Austria sound. bal ir
fhis ~as correct we sers now trayAllnx
straight across wuzsock land and Dove
glacier without seeing any lard near us.
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For supreme Judge.

PATRICK HENRY WINSTON. OF spo-
kane ................. Siiyer!ts
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-12
A soNo oF LOVE.

The earth below. and the heaven abovei
Let us live, my dear; let us live and lovei
We know not all that the blue skies mean,
But the beautiful lilies loll and lean;
And here is the sunshine, and meadows OF
green,
Ana rivers with silvery ripples between:--
The oarth below, and the heaven above,
Let us live, my dear; lei us live and Lowell
The earth below, and the heaven abovei
Let us live, my dear, for breath Of love;
We know not the meaning of stars and
skies
We only see heaven in Loves glad eyes;
We give him our sorrow-our songs and our
sighs,
And a red rose is born for each red rose that
dies!
oh, the earth below, and the heaven abovel
Let US live, my dear; lot us live and Lowell
Let us live, my dear, in the lonely lands,
For kiss, a tear and a clasp OF hands;
For whatever blessings a soul may. miss,
There is nothing in heav ven as sweet as this
Loves kiss, Loves lingering first sweet kiss
With the earth below and the heaven above
And q life, my dear, that is lived for love!
F. l.. Stanton.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-12
HOW HE KNEW THE TIME.

Patrick was lying in bed in hos,
pital. He had been brought in few
days before after a severe fall from the
top story of a building on which he
had been working. With all his suf-
fering he never lost his cheerful
spirits, and livened up many of the
other patients with his bright remarks
and short stories. The doctor hap
pened along, and asked him how he
felt.
"Fairly well, doctor; this right leg
of moine is very ungrateful spalpeen
consitherin' that it wuz only broke in
wan place whin it moight have boen
smashed in Dozen"
"How did you fall, Patrick?" l
asked. "Did you lose your head"
"Faith, no; sure it was me footln'
OF lost"
"What time did it happen !"
"Well, oi wuzn't so cure before 1
fell, but wuz thinkin' comm down
that it wuz near dinner hour, an OF
wuz convinced of that same as OF
passed the second story, fer oi saw the
people in there atm dinner. "-Har-
per's Round Table.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-12
OBarisal Guns.o

Travellers in passing through the
delta of the Ganges, India, have occa-
sionally heard dull, subdued sounds,
not unlike the reverberation of dis
tant artillery. AS these sounds have
been heard when it was positively
known that no artillery practice was
being carried out, this mysterious
phenomenon, which is known as the
"Barisal guns" has given rise to much
curiosity and speculation. A similar
phenomenon occurs in two different
countries in Europe, regarding which,
in letter upon the subject to Profess
sor G. II. Darwin, NJ. Van der Broeclz,
conservator of the Museum of Natural
History, of Belgium, writes:
81 have constantly noticed these
sounds in the plain of Limburg since
1880, and my colleague of the geologi-
cal survey, NJ. Rutot, has heard them
very frequently along the Belgian
coast, where our sailors call them
mist pouffers, or fog dissipators.
"The keeper of the lighthouse at
Ostend has heard these noises for sew
eral years past; they are known near
Boulogne, and the late NJ. Houzeau
spoke of them to my friend M. Ian
caster. More than ten of my personal
acquaintances have observed the fact.
"The detonations are dull and dis
tant. and are repeated a dozen times
or more at irregular intervals. They
are usually heard in the daytime when
the sky is clear, and especially toward
evening after q very hot day. The
noise does not at all resemble artillery,
blasting in mines, or the growing of
distant thunder"
NJ. Van der Brock attributes these
noises to "some peculiar discharge of
atmospheric electricity" NJ. Rutot
thinks they are "internal to the earth, Z"
and might be caused by "the shock
which the internal fluid mass might
give to the earth's crust"
Similar unexplained noises have
been heard among the Dartmoor Hills,
England, and in Scotland.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-12
FastidiOus Pike.

An Englishman is in straits because
she young ducks are all being caught
and eaten in loch at Pitgeveny,
Elgin. He writes to the London
Field:
81 am Just broken-hearted because
the pike are eating all my young
ducks. We shoot them, catch them,
and kill them all the year around by
fair means and foul, three or four
every day, and some have young
ducks in them. In one was young
black headed gull, young duck, and
the toes and skull of another; in an
other were two small ducks and two
small coots. There are thousands of
young coots on the loch, but the
brutes of pike prefer the ducks"
Fish are notorious eaters of ducks,
and what is the Englishman's misfor-
tune has been the luck of many a
fisherman for bass, pickerel and trout.
A live young bird tied to a hook, not
impaled, cast gently on a still water
of an Adirondack stream, has raised
many a trout ''as big as hand saws,
and resulted in the death of few, but
the boys who used birds as bait are
not usually skillful enough to land
the big ones. A small bird is as good
as a young field mouse for trout bait,
and that is saying good deal, as any
woodsman will admit.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-12
MODEST REQUEST.

"I don't ask you to remove your
hat, miss" plaintively spoke the little
man in the seat behind her, "but if
you will kindly refrain from wabbling
your head 1 will take it as a favor. l
am used to the high hat, Dut l am not
accustomed to the wabble, and it con-
fuses me and obstructs my view of the
gentleman in the orchestra who per-
forms on the kettle drum"
"Sir I"
"Thank you, miss, 1 don't mind the
high hat, but confess the wabble did
bother me a little. Ever SO much
obliged. 1 can see him quite distinctly
now."
"Sir, I ="
81 beg you won't apologize, miss.
It was entirely inadvertent on your
part, l am sure, and"
"If you say another word I'll call
the usher"
"Bless you, miss, that will not be
necessarily L am acquainted with all
the ushers. Any of them would be
glad to oblige me by asking the
gentleman who operates the kettle
drum to move a little to the right, so
as to give me better view OF him,
but 1 can see him with perfect ease,
now, thanks tc your having quit"
"Usher l'
"Pll call him for you, miss, Here,
Jerryl"
~ am entirely capable of calling
him, sir l am going to ask him to
bring the manager of the hall -
81 assure you, miss, that will not be
necessary, either, The manager is my
son-in-law. He will merely instruct
the usher .o-ah, thanks I"
For the young woman, trembling
with indignation, had removed the
hat. Chicago Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-12

The public school children have
adopted the following estate flowers"
for their respective commonwealth (:
Alabama, Nebraska and Oregon, the
golden rod; Colorado, the columbine !;
Delaware, the peach blossom; Idaho,
the syringa y Iowa and New York, the
rose; Maine, the pine cone and tassel /;
Minnesota, the cypripodium or moo
uasin flower; Montana, tho bitter
root; North Dakota, the wild rose;
Utah, the lego lily, and Vermont, the
red clover. In addition, Rhode Island
and Wisconsin have adopted State
tree, the maple having been selected
by both.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-12
A Dog FIGHTS a Bee.

A swarm of bees caused considerable
excitement among pedestrians over in
Jamacia last Friday. 1t was a big
swarm and alighted in big tree near
the Long Island Railroad depot. After
buzzing about for awhile they settled,
but big bulldog, owned by one of
the residents in the neighborhood,
happened along, and one of the limo.
cent honeymakers, who was evidently
in a bad temper, few into the canine's
direction and alighted on the brute's
back. A lively but short scene then
followed. The way that dog jumped
and tumbled about the gronnd as the
bee continued to sting made people
suppose that he had gone mad. Tho
dog finally succeeded in locating the
troublesome insect, but the tussel had
made the latter so furious that he con-
tinued to bite long after there was not
enough left for even coroner to rec
ognIze.--New York Recorder.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-12
Infused Horse KiIIs Himself.

Hundreds of employees in the yards
of the American Steel Barge Company,
at Superior. Wis, witnessed a singu.
lar occurrence. A bony, played-out
old bay horse walked iuto the shallow
water in the slip known as Howard's
Pocket, and slowly moved father out
into the deep water, unmindful of the
shouts and missiles of the spectators
on the shore. When in about three
feet of water the poor animal cast one
wistful look around, then deliberately
put his head under water and held it
there until life was extinct. In a
short time after this the owner, ped.
dler, appeared upon the scene and al
most committed suicide himself when
he learned of the astonishing deed OF
his four-footed servant. The horse,
it is said, had been poorly fe ! nu
Overworked, -Chles4o lines Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-12
An Indian Present to Royalty.

The Indian present to the Duke ana
Duchess of York, in commemoration
of their marriage, has at last arrived
in London. 1t consists of a magniti-
cent casket mounted upon and upheld
by four miniature elephants. The
casket, which is of solid silver, is
thirty-one inches long and about
twenty-five inches wide and three feet
in height. 1t is exquisitely embossed
aud bears arms, views aud figures en-
blematIcal of India. Upon the lid is
engraved the following inscription:
"Presented to their royal and imperial
highnesses the Duke and Duchess Of
York by the European and native
communities in Calcutta and the
province of Bengal, in commeuoration
of their auspicious marriage on tho
9th of July, 1898" The casket is OF
great weight, and is regarded as a su.
peTb specimen Of Indian silver XoSkl
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-12

If Schopenhauer were living he
would be delighted to find that while
Hegel, the supreme object of his con-
tempt, is falling into Oblivion in Ger
many, his idol, Kant, is coming more
and more to the front. Not only has
the Berlin Academy of Sciences de-
cided to issue a new, complete edition
of his works, but new periodical de-
voted to Kantism is TO be brought
out, Professor Vaihinger being the
editor.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-12
Credit to the Wrong Shooter.

Ex-Governor Flower went down to
Creedmoor one day to see tine boys
shoot. He was persuaded to try his
own skill as a marksman, and aimed
at the distant target. There was
commotion IN the gravel fifty yards
away, but "bulPs.eyel" was called.
The Governor tried again, and again
the flying gravel in the foreground
and the cry of "bull's-eye" in the dis
tance. After few such successes the
Governor handed the rifle to young
lady and she fired, with the same re-
suit, whereupon some one was heard
calling to the man who examines the
targets: "What's the matter with
your The Governor amt firing
now l"-Judge.
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Great drops of perspiration stood
on the young mans brow.
81 have it!" he exclaimed sudden
ly, as a way out OF his perplexity
seemed to open before him.
"But mol" he added despairiugly q
moment later. ''That will not do,
either |"
He rose and walked to the window.
The gay, thoughtless multitude
passing and repassing outside, intent
upon its own pleasures and oblivious
of the suffering, the headache and the
desolation that blight so many human
lives, seemed merely to mock his mis-
cry and deepen the gloom that per-
vaded the apartment.
He turned away from the window
with a groan, threw himself into a
chair, learned YEARLY on the little
table in front of him, and buried his
face in his hands.
81 cannot Oh, cannot |" he mur.
INJURED in q broken voice. 81 give it
up"
He was a campaign poet, trying to
find rhyme for Mckinley and
Hobart. Chicago Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-12

Speaking at a meeting in London
in support of the unity of the English
speaking world, Sir Walter Besant, the
well-known novelist, declared that he
did not believe that Canada, Australia,
and the other great colonies would
continue the fiction of dependence
upon Great Britain for any greatlength
of time. They will go their way with
the best wishes OF Englishmen and be-
como republics with the frlendliest
feelings toward England.