Show an opera season in the north Remark remarkable ablo differences occur in the tile seasons of the arctic regions so that at certain times as happened last year all the channels of the northern seas are filled and choked with floating ice at the breaking ulof tip of winter while at 0 other ther times the same channels are com comparatively para free and but little ico ice is soon seen along the tracks of the transatlantic steamers it is a most interesting fact that similar vicissitudes evidently occur in the arctic and antarctic regions of the planet mars the telescope shows that vast fields of snow exist around the poles of mars extending when it is winter at either of those poles and contracting when it is summer there but the polar snows of mars appear to bo be noticeably tice ably less extensive in someji some winter anter seasons than in others so that wo we might fairl fairly expect to find there if wo we could visit that planet corresponding differences in the amount of ice ico carried toward the equator at the end of successive win winters teis our arctic n navigators avi gators take advantage of such open seasons as the present appears to be whenever they canto can to penetrate farther toward the north pole it is perhaps fortunate for the increase of our knowledge of the arctic regions that lieutenant peary and his party who started for northern greenland last year are now in the far north they may bring back most interesting accounts of the condition of things there and find perhaps be able to throw some light upon tho the causo cause of the remarkable variations in the quantity of icebergs and nd ico ice fields that come floating out of those t mysterious imis regions in different Eca sons youths companion |