Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1910 — NINE NORTH POLES IN NINE YEARS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NINE NORTH POLES IN NINE YEARS.

The position of the poles is not constant, and observations have proved that there are a yearly counter-clock elliptical movement of some feet, and a counter-clock circular movement of some feet in diameter in a period of 428 days. The first may be due to seasonal meteorological causes; thp second is far more difficult to explain. In view of these movements it is obviously impossible for any explorer to set up a staff that shall, as it were, lengthen the axis of the world and insure that it will do so for all time. The fact that the axis of the earth shifts from time to time was proved by Eeler years ago, but it was only lately that the displacements were measured with anything like accuracy at a number of stations. —Illustrated London News.

WHY IT IS POSSIBLE THAT EXPLORERS MAY DISCOVER THE BIG NAIL.