Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — Arctic Explorations. [ARTICLE]

Arctic Explorations.

From 1496 to 1857 there were 134 voyages and land journeys undertaken by governments and explorers of Europe and America to investigate the unknown region around the north pole. Of these, sixty-three went to the northwest, twenty-nine via Behring Strait, and the rest to the northeast or due north. Since 1857 there have been the notable expeditions of Dr. Hayes, of Captain Hall, those of Nordenskjold, sent by the Swedish Government, and others sent by Germany, Russidf and Denmark; three voyages made by James Lamont, of the Royal Geographical Society, England, at his own expense; the expeditions of Sir George Nares, of Leigh Smith, and that of the ill-fated Jeanette; the search expeditions of the Tigress, the Juniata, and those sent to rescue Lieutenant Greely; farther, all the expenditions fitted out under the auspices of the Polar expedition—in which the Greely expedition was included—and a number of minor voyages, making a total of-some sixty exploring journeys in these twenty-seven years.— lnterOcean. Notwithstanding the depression in business circles, the business of the thief seems tv be picking up.— Puck. Onk county in Kansas, Sedgwick, is expected to produce 9,000,000 bushels of corn this year.