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Show Our Scandinavian Columns. C. C. A. Christensex, Translator. Another Arctic Expedition. This Time From Norway. A Horrible Murder and Sui-: cide in Copenhagen. TO TI1K NORTH POLE. Late advice from Norway, states that Diet (Storthing) has granted 200,000 crowns to lit out an expedition under l)r Nausen to reach the Northpole. i Thus, the financial part of this great undertaking may Oe accomplished, but how the other parts will succeed tune only can tell us. Already a lung list ul il Ins. iriotis names are connected with the j dreadful tales of the sufi'crinns aad disasters dis-asters of foimer exdiditions of this kind. Shall the Norwegian, Dr. Nausen, who but a few years ago, crossed the icy ' regions of the interior Greenland, succeed suc-ceed better than his predecessors, or shall he ami his brave followers only follow to share a similar fate? ' Dr. Nausen will at any rate adopt a diffeier.t plan of operations from all Artie explorers. He will not attempt to break through the ice, but will lake advantage of this apparently unstir-mouutable unstir-mouutable barrier, and make the ice c iny him to the goal of his ambition the Pole. It has been demonstrated, that a very strong current is continually rushing Noith, which is supposed to pass through, or at least very near, the Polar point of our globe. Calculating on this, lie will embatk n the ice when his ship will carry him no farther, and let the ice carry hint and his followers further. fur-ther. That stich a Hip is not going to be peiioimed at lihtening-exprcss speed, he is well aware ol; and iheief ne he will be provisioned tor thn-e ye ns II his siiip or boais are crushed bv t lie ice, he will use dogs and sle.ls, as he did while crossing Hie glaciers of Greenland. Green-land. It is evidently a niand scheme; and should he succed in his hazaidutis undertaking, the name of Dr.Nausen and the Nor u-cgians will be indelibly written on history's pages, as among the great men of Scaiid.uavia, and of the earth. |