Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1895 — Axle Grease for the North Pole. [ARTICLE]

Axle Grease for the North Pole.

Bill Nye might be mistaken by a stranger for a judge, and, as a matter of fact, he was a lawyer, when lack of practice drove him into newspaper work in Laramie. He is a man «f very sober demeanor, and rarely cracks jokes outside of newspaper columns. He has been known, however, to play a practical joke on a friend. John Fox, Jr., says that when Lieut. Greeley started on his expedition to the north pole Nye gave him a sealed box that was not to be opened until he had reached his farthest point north. It contained axlegrease for the pole.