Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1877 — How to Reach the North Pole. [ARTICLE]

How to Reach the North Pole.

Various suggestions are from time to time thrown out for reaching the North pole. One enthusiast proposes to accomplish the journey in a balloon, and now we are told that all that is needed is a little glycerine. The greatest obstacle to be overcome in the Arctic regions is scurvy. The specific for scurvy is limejuice, because the flavor of the latter is so nauseous. What is to be done ? A correspondent of the London Times fancies he has solved tho conundrum. It is the addition of glycerine to the limejuice. But the blue-jackets prefer scurvy to li me j nice, which is thereby preserved in a fluid condition, and free from fungoid growths, even in very cold climaies. Add, says this writer, a lump or two of loaf sugar, a soupcon of lemon oil, and then a good jorum of hot water and fluid lime-juice and old rum, and the North pole must surrender. England, whose Field Marshals had been reduced by death to the Duke of Cambridge and the Prince of Wales, lias now three new Field Marshals. They are Gen. Sir William Rowan, an Irishman, 88 years of age; Gen. Sir Charles York, 87 years old; and Hugh Rose, Lord Strathnaim, who is only 74, and was distinguished as commander of the forces in Central India during the mutiny. He was raised to the peerage in 18t>G. in reward chiefly fop ]jjg Indian service ts-