Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-05-04

physical act that man is capable Of
The first man at the pole will be the
MAN of his time. Yet the practical gain
Zoe the world will not be great. even
VIXEN both poles are discovered. We
nTay then learn something new about
ocean depths or land attitudes, ano
something about ocean currents, some
meteorological observation and per
bsps some astronomical measure
noents; hardly more than this. There
is absolutely no commercial or political
advantage that the most ardent expan
sionist can imagine. Enduring fame
for the individual, but that Is all.
One of the most interesting Of the
many expeditions now busy adding to
the enlightenment Of mankind and to
the geographical perplexities Of youth
RI that which left England year ago
10. explore Torres Straits, Borneo, and
various islands of the South Pacific
TIE. explorers have a cinematograph
several photographs, half dozen cam
eras, besides variety OF instruments
Cor testing the nervous organizations
az The natives. There is the algometer,
for measuring pain; an aethesiometer,
10 test the aboriginal sense of beauty;
asphygmometer, for the savage pulse;
Cations whistles, for ear tests, togeth-
er with drums, tuning forks and time
markers for visual and auditory sig
mails in measuring reaction time.
The Imperial Academy of Science of
Vienna has sent DR.. ID. III. Muller, pro-
Tessor Semitic languages, to Southern
Arabia, with DR.. Alfred Zahn and Prof
1skar Simony, of the Imperial Insti-
tute of Geology. King Oscar of Swe-
aen has interested himself In this ex-
petition. He placed the steamer Colt
fried at Dr. Muller's disposal, and in
Aneed his friend, Count Karl Lands
berg. the famous Swedish Arabist, to
70 along. The Count has lived many
years on the south coast of Arabia,
and has won the friendship of several
II the sheiks there.
sCount Itchy is hard at work in Cen
trail Asia and Siberia searching for
remnants of Hungarian tribes. Johann
5anko, the celebrated geologist and eth.
noIogist, and two other scientists are In
she party. They set out from Tiais
and have Travelled through Omska
Tomsk, Irkuts and In the region OF
lake Balkash. The Count hopes to
find the records Batu Kahn seized and
took home with him after his famous
rajd into Europe in 1241. He has no,
found these records yet, but writes
home that he has made interesting
studies of manners and customs II
Urga, Mongolia and the Burrat conn
try, where the Shamans are. He ha,
also learned much of the Magyars ant
snccceded In persuading lama to pho
tograph Bogodo Gegen, the presldin,
&eity In one of the great temples. A
snc place where the party spent SOM
Nine the temperature at a. m. was 81
degrees, and rose by noon to 107 de
grees, Count Zichy hopes TO reacl
iRekfng I'm October.
TX. I. Bogdanovich. the geologist. 4
exploring the region west of Kamchat
Ia. He has worked day after da.
when the spirit thermometer recorde,
20 TO 30 degrees, and believes he ha
discovered the "snow pole"
Capt. Deasy has been working iron
headquarters at Yarkand trying {
ascend the Yarkand River. He has es
paorcd the Takal and Makan River
oretty thoroughly and tried to penetrat
Herthern Thibet, across the Kin Luz