Show SOLOMON AUGUST MD1EE voyftge I The proposed balloon voyage of Solomon Solo-mon August Andree tile Swedish aeronaut to the north pole Is attracting attract-ing the attention of geographers end I t Solomon August Andree scientists The plans for the voyage have now bepu approved by the highest high-est scientific authority In the world the French Academy of Science As the Queen of Spain backed the famous sea voyage of Columbus to the new world so King Oscar will furnish a large sum of money to send Andrea to tho north Andree Is an engineer and does not follow ballooning for pleasure or notoriety no-toriety but solely for tho enrichment o science lie has narrowly escaped death on numerous occasions but repeated re-peated perils only served to Increase his pluck The expedition to the pole will leave Spltzbergen In July of next year The balloon which will carry the adventurous ad-venturous aeronauts will be capable of sustaining C600 pounds for a period of thirty days It will carry scientific Instruments a sledge a canvass boat arms and ammunition a ballast and supplies for four months Dr F J Furnlvall who Is an eminent authority on tho Kngllm language and literature of tho Kllzabcthan era nays that Bluikeipoaioa numo won pronounced Shahkapalr the n having the sound of a In tether and tho euro sounding sound-ing us air A fund has been started In New South Wales for tho purpose of raising a memorial me-morial over he grave of fill John Hobert son who came out of the bush to govern thu colony it IH euld that he hud not an enemy white yellow or bluck and that his purso wus always open to the needy If nil mon would try to be as good ar they would like to havo their neighbors > think they are the recording angel woulit have fewer black marks to eel down Bomcrvlllo Journal I AI |