Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1885 — Reaching the North Pole. [ARTICLE]

Reaching the North Pole.

Sooner or later then orth pole will be reached and the geographical and physical phenomena of the region marked npon our maps. No one can foretell what benefits may follow from a successful polar expedition, what new scientific laws it may unfold, or what new light it may shed on our present imperfect knowledge of life in high altitudes. When Galvani and "Volta were watching the twitching legs of a frog, as two pieces of metal were made to touch the nerve, the great scholars and philosophers oft the day saw in the discovery only an amusing

toy. The contemplation of a single discovery like theirs is sufficient to combat the idea that no important benefit can arise from the discovery of the north pole.— Ex-State Geologist Cox, of Indiana.