k 4' PEARY'S WORK ItKSMVM OF THK I XI'liOUKtVS 1K1' TO THK KAH MUHTU, lry and Companion Traveled Over liiOO Mile Ac-rots Inland Ice Sio tinman Belnits on the Not til Orcenland Count. N itn illustrated account of Lieu tenant H.E.Pcnry's expedition, which tt turned recently to this country, the .V Chicago Graphic rat: I-11X J lie surres 01 !'$'-. T'll'",l,nnt ! s PitrtMr -ii.l lila ham. 7 goes tar to prove rZJJZ&ZA'1" cUim th"t 'i"prxwji,'.i(...'!-,r.in American are pc '" -"- cnlmrlT fitted to explore. They ore quick to aiinitt them rclves to their aurroii iidiiin and possess unusual ok ill in contriving means by which to attain the desired end". In a disrmtch to the Nnvy Department, rom St. Johns, N. 1'.. Lieutenant Peary jays: "United States Nnvy claims high est discoveries on Greenland east coast. Independence. Hay, 82 degrees north latitude, .'14 degrees we-t longitude, dis covered Jmy 4, 1V.)2. Greenland ice raps end south of Victoria inlet." Lieutenant Peary presented his ideas of ctpluralion to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in January, lc91. Ilis plans showed so wide s LIEUTENANT FKAnv's familiarity with existing conditions, and were so practical in character that the teademy, which had previously borne the expense of the expeditions under Dr. (Cane and Dr. Hayes, accepted his propo sition and provided the outfit needed for the journey. It has been ttie experience of Arctic explorers who had heretofore attempted high northern latitudes by means of hips to Una that once barred by ice it was impossible to proceed their way was farther with their ships, and, should they become ice bouud, they must re main there until their vrseviB nra uusiiuvvu tutfVaji or arnt out in the springtime. Peary, 'ti'.Wi recognizing this tact ' made caretut arrange- f.sq,oim.u. oienti to travel on toot aud by meant of ledges. The expedition sailed on the Kite, t tteam sealer, which on July 30, 1S1U, left the party on the south shore of Mo Cormick Hay. After constructing a house, a scrius of boat trips and short excursions was begun. Those trips con tinued through the winter and until May 3d of this year, when Peary and all the party, excepting Mrs. Peary and Mr, VerhoetT, left for the north. On June 8d tbo supporting party returned, having parted from Peary and Astrup at Hum boldt glacier. From this point they continued northward until July 4th they discovered Independence Hay. After an absence of ninety-three days, during which time Pcury and hit companion traveled over 1U00 miles across inland ice, they returned to MoCormick Hay, meeting the Kite, which had in the meantime returned fur the party. While preparing to return homo, Mr. Verbocff went on a short geological trip to a neighboring settlement. Not return ing, search wo made, aud after soiuo V A Tcnr time traces of bit footsteps to a large glacier were discovered, but no sigu of the missing man was found, and it is sup posed be loat bit life in one of the nu merous crevasses. This oxpeditiou verifies the possibility of parties making their way on foot toward the north pole, instead of by ahipt, aud tbis belief bat been enter tained before by eminent and practical Arctic explorers. Lieutenant Peary'i accomplishment re vives the inspiration in the betrt of every Arctic explorer who hat been btt&td bytUip progress to agila matte k . - ' TMl H.MaMB ' m the attempt over the tnnrt, on toot and by sledge Journey, establishing, as the, line of discovery progressed, neceisary depots of supplies lor the purpose of ae curing retreat or tiding over unseen de lays. Although Peary retched North Green land lst year with a broken leg, good luck seems to have been his portion. He was fortunate In being nblo to procura plenty of dogs. He took with him on the ice cap twenty of these nulmals, bred by the natives of Whale Hound, and thoy hauled lour sledges as far as Humboldt glacier, where the return party went back, and Piaiy and Astrup, with thir teen dogs and three sledircs, kept on their course. Peary had killed an abund ance ol seals and wall us for dug food during the winter, and t ravel od in the tightest marching order. Pemmicnn, pea soup, beans and biscuit formed his soe provisions. Kivard Astrup, whoacconipanied Pcnrv on this journey of 131)0 miles, is a young jNniwcgian who had lived in the United Slates only u few months when he volun leered for the expedition. He was skilled in the use of the 'Ue,'' as the peculiar snowshces of Norway bio called. l'eary s enumeration of the Arctic liich- lnndeia give a total of less than 230 souls. They are appaiently decreasing in num bers, but not so rapidly as was supposed a lew years ago. In their recent inter- course with the whites they have becu lavored beyond most suvagu people. A large p ut of the men whom they have seen were rough, and they haven't al ways becu treated with justice. Kane had serious dillictilty with tbo natives, aud two of tils men accused these people of plotting against their lives. This time pa VKSSEt,, TtIK KITIt. they have been treated by their whito visitors with kindness, consideration and generosity. On the North Greenland coast Peary found no traces of human beiugs. Ic has becu a favorite theory with some soicntirio men that the east ciast derived its population from the migration of peo ple living on the northwest coast. There is no evidence whatever to substantiate this unlikely theory, and it is probable that the lemuins of Esquimaux huts found on the shores of Iiobeson channel, in Grant laud, indicate the most north ern limit of human occupancy. Peary intended to do for the Arctic Highlanders what Holm did for the 601) natives he discovered on the east Green land coast. Ho bus thoroughly carried out this purpose. He has made a com plete enumeration of the inhabitants, and PKABT a HOU3K, M COttNtlCK BAT. hit long association with them enabled him to iccure photographs of fully 'half the. Arctic Highlanders. Ho brings back a large quantity of ethnological material, including tents, costumes, sledges, boats, dogs, and photographs of the people and dwellings. Eight days after Peary and Astrup left the party and pushed forwaid by themselves they saw, says Peary, "the land at the head of the St. George's fjord, and then for two weeks were baf fled aud harrassed by storms, fogs, cre vasses and steep ice slopes, while trying to weather the feeder basins of the St. Gcorgo'a and Sbcurd Osborue glacier HUT. system, the liutterst of the northern in land ice sea. June 26 we were under the eighty-second parallel, when the laud which I bad been keeping in view to the northwest confronted me to the north and northeast and then to the east, de flecting me to the southeast. After marching four dayt to the southeast, the land ttill extending southeast and east, I made direct for it toward Urge open ing in the mountains visible over the nearer summits, and landed July 1. July 4, after three dayt' travel overlaud, I reached the bead of a great bay, lttl, tude 81 .37, longitude 84, opening out east ant Horthest. t named this In dependence Bay in honor of the day and the great alacler flowing north Into ie Academy glacier. I reached Inland ice again July 7, with foot gear cut to pieces and selves and dogs exhausted and dead lame from the hard climbing, sharp stones and frequent falls." Hlndfto Women. The women of the dt.rk-skinned Hin doo race are remarkable for their phys ical beauty. Helow the medium height A HINDOO WOMAS. (from European ttandpoint) their car riage is erect and exceedingly graceful. The long, swinging motion which they allect in walking it produced by their habit of carrying all kinds of merchan dise on the head. The Hindoo hesd is small aud the face is refined, with de licately chiselled features. The hair, 'woman's crowning glory," is blue black and very abundant. It was worn parted in the middle and drawn down straight behind the cars, being coiled al the back of the head in a heavy knot. They practice the barbaric custom of piercing the nose, through which a gold or silver ring is inserted. The Ungen of the small black hands are usually covered with rings of various kluds, while silver bracelets adorn the alendet wrists. Kings are worn also frequently on the toes, and the women are seldom seen without heavy silver unklets. The single garmunt worn bv the Hin doo woman consists of long tcarf, always of some whito material, which is dexterously woven about the body until it forms a skirt and what looks like t sleeveless jacket. I he casto is denoted by the color ol the mark whicli the priest of the Urahmati religion places each morning on their foreheads. Vogret ible Od.litles. Freaks of vegetobles, especially of turnips, radishes, parsnips and the like, nave probably been observed from time to time by roost people, though very raroly in such distinct and striking forms as in these instances, which have been recorded in old prints, says thr Strand Magazine. The tndisb, which we give first, grew in a sandy soil at Harlem, more than 200 years ago, and was painted in fac simile by Jacob Ponoy, one of whose fricndi presented the picture to Glandorp in the year 1672. This picture was engraved by Kirby, showing the mot exactly at we reproduce it here in Figure 1. Nor it this the only instnuco in which the root of a radish bat tukou this par ticular form, as another, exactly resuin bling a human hand with tlngors and thumb complete, was possessed by Mr. Bisset, Secretary to the Birmingham Museum, in 1602. rie i pica no a Figure 2 represents parsnip, which also strikingly resembles a hand, but in a difforemt position, as it appears to bi grasping another root. This oddity was sold by a market woman in the ordinary course of business, and was passod from band to band as a curiosity until it cauna into the possession of au engraver, who made the drawing of it which we give. r igun J is a turnip with a face, e plumed headdress, body, arms and t number of intcrtangled legs, like those of some tea monster, "ending in snaky twine." This root grew in a garden in the village of Welden, in Garmany, in 1623, the fact being recorded in the curious columns entitled "MUcollatM Academice Nuturte." Just Out. UGLY STOWAWAYS. VKNOMotTfl fjitHvruttKft rouxo IN BANANA BU.VCHHS. foorplonn, Tarantula, Spiders, On. Ilpedea and Snakes Obtain Kreo laafff In America I tan iter in Unloading Vessels. W . ORfCMEN for whole fj r le banana dealers, Vl V ? ,,1B New York Herald, never begin work that they do not take their lives in their hands. hearccly a wagon load of the fruit is taken from a ship that sjme sort of deadly poisonous rep tile, spider or Insect is not Hidden awnv urneniu tun inycrs. Tho amimal life which takes free pas sago from foreign countries by storing itself away In bunches ol ban viat would lurnish food for an interesting volume of natural history. 8o accustomed have the handlers of this fruit become to teeing big, hairy tarantulas crawl out of the bunchei and up the legs of their ttooscrs that they whisk them to the floor and step upon them with no more concern than if they were harmless Croton bugi or caterpil lars instead of the venomous iuects that they are. The bite of a South American tarantula is in all cases poisonous and in many instances deadly, yet their presence smong banana handlers create no more terror thau if they were the most harm test of spiders. They are more frequently found In bnnanas than any other reptiles, and they fomc from every place from which ban iuas are shipped. They are black and Iiiwy, with long, hairy les and little Dcadlike eyes, which twinkle and snap 'ike electric sparks, and their very ap pearance would strike terror to the iearts of those who are not accustomed o seeing them. As a rule the bodies of ;hcse big spiders are about the slo of he end of a man's thumb, but some imet a "Gulliver" crawls out into day ight, and he is immediately captured ind caged, and the cantor easilv sells lini for from $1 to f2. Those of tho arnntulas which are tot aroused by the oltlngof the bunches n handling and keep n hiding are stowed way in the hot eel ars of tho dealort, vbere they become vanned up and then irawl out and spend be remainder of their lays in the cracks of he ripening rooms, pkciimah una Kit vith tho domestic rats and other small mimals with which those collars abound. 8nakes are not infrequently found railed around tho stalk of a bunch of ananas, and they are seldom killed. Vs a rule the variety is peculiar, and a tmdy market is always found where they itn bo disposed of at a reasonable rice. They rarely escape after the bananas lave been lifted from the hold of a vei tel. If tho snake becomes curious when he air and light strike him and sticks lis head nut for a survey of the sur oundings he is immediately pounced ipon and imprisoned. If ho remain" to e stowed away in the ripening room the leat invariably wakes liuu up aud he uu toils himself and ciawls out. Among the most teared of tho reptiles t a black snukn with a brown tingo icar its under purl. It usually measures ibout eighteen inches in length. Its ica is rather (latter thau is usual with makes, and just back of its head for ibout two inches it is marked with small rcllow stripes which look somothing lika l gold collar. The workmen sny that its bite is In ruriably fatal, a statement which is lomewhut robbed of its terrors by the 'act that diligcut search failed to (lis lover anybody who would assume the responsibility of making un ullldavitthat ae ever know anybody who died in this way. These snakes are generally found in the consignmout of bananas from Baracoa, although occasionally they are iiscovured in suipments fro.u Jamaica lud Costa Itica. The most lreiiieut visitor to our shoroi in tho snake kingdom, on banana voi lels, is what tho workmen call diamond makes. There is nothing iu tooir ap pearance to indicate the origin of the aame. Mr. Genaro, uu Italian wholosale dealer on Washington street, suggested that at one time several raugh gems were tound iu the stomach of one of these makes, hence the name. In longth thoy tre about two feet. The bead it flat and sharp, and those who profess to have knowledge on the subject say that its blto it poisonous, though not uecessarlly fatal. . Scorpions of the real" '3 order are also among these unKvuume bauaua stowaways, and while their ttlngt are not considered actually dangerous they are usually extremely painful, and work men when thoy are stung by tbein gene rally stop work for a few hours and re duce the swelling which follows and allay the pain at the most oonvt nieat liquor saloon. When one of these autuiula ligbtt on a tit subject it seems to go about its ftCOIIPIOX AND TARANTULA. work with 'all Its body and sou), II catches on with iu two arms and head, and giving a sudden hump of Its jointed back it jabs the end of Its needle pointed tail into the flesh where It calculates to do the most harm, and the subject usu ally jumps and creates an atmosphere of a sulphurous odor about him for several minutes. The littlo stowaway then, as a general thing, is made to expatiate his crime by being crushed beneath a largf sired foot. Centipedes are not uncommon amont cargoes ol bananas. They are not o the domestio order commonly known ai "earwigs" cither. They aro long, fa' fellows with tfco rows of saffron celored legs and brilli int purple bodies, and their stints are feared more thsn small pox by the handlers of bananas. It is sniil that these creatures are st poisonous that when they walk upon tin bare flesh their legs leave a red trull upon the skin as if a pin had scratched it. I' Is also said that with such lightning lika) quickness do they sink the ends of thcil numerous legs into wheatever they an crawling upon, when they bonomt alarmed, that it is impossible to knock them oil. Should the legs penetrate s person's flesh, so the men who unload ships will tell you, death is inevitable, and when the poison Is injected the flesh ruortilics almost immediately. These are the sort of tropical centi Msn citAtS." pedes which reach these shorei in ba nanas, and when a workman discovers one crawling upon him be stands per fectly quiet and allows it to crawl olf without disturbing it. Then it is crushed bencuth a heavy boot or captured and sold, as tho man feels disposed. They aro usually summarily killed, as the workmen prefer foregoing the loss of fifty or seventy-five cents rather tbnu run tho chances of being stung. A peculiar crustacean in the shape of a crab also hides itself in the buuehes of bananas from Haracoa occasionally and makes a free trip to this city. How these animals find tboir way among the bananas Is known only to themselves, but the supposition is that when the fruit is piled up for shipment they crawl among the bunches and stick there. In shape there Is scarcely any difference be tween them and tho ordinary crab of commerce, but in dress they are as gay as a stylish woman Kastor Sunday. Their legs, claws and eyes are flaring red ind A Ilt!TTF.nrf.T VISITOR. give the impression that thuy have stopped into hot wator and managed to hop out ayain without being parboiled all over. Their bodies aro ubout as large as the back of a man's hand and ore perfeotly black, nnd their long fool ers are of a dark blue color. They aro known among banana handlers as land crabs. Sometimes thov are cauzht and kept as curiosities, but they aro generally killed, at they livo only a short time after they huve been captur.id and con- llnod. Big cockroaches, pure white in color. are regular travelers among bunches of bananas. They aro about twice the size of croton bugs and appear to have un dergone a bleaching process at tome stage la their existence. A beautiful butterfly, with big bolv and largu wings, it also among the in sects found in banana ship. Its body is almost white, except for a delietto pink tint, ana its wings are of pure white, dotted with brilliant red spots. A super stition exists among some of the han dlers of bananas that if one of theso but terflies lights upon a person it is an as surance of good luck. Innumerable variotieiof sea shells find their wuy into the banana bunches, many of which are prized highly by tho workmen for their beauty. It is sup posed that they get into tho bunches when the latter are piled upon the sea shore, preparatory to being stowed away m the holds or the vessels. Hats aud mice run out of the bunches when they are bsiug j3lted about, and a few days ago two little bird's eggs were difcovered by a Washington street deal er in a piece of folded leaf which bad become in some way attached to a stalk. They were white, speckled with brown. Of tho tbousaudt of small spiders which stick to the bunauas none is more feared than a red one, which is to small that often it is not perceived until it has perched itself upou a man's band mid has injouted its sting. The sting it uot fatal, but it causes n j end of incon venience, at the toot it penetrates be comes exceedingly painful aud swells up to a grout size. It is only a little over forty years a?o that a Russian farmer began the cultiva tion of the sunflower in order to extract oil from the seeds. Now 700,000 acres in Russia are in sunflowers, and the original founder of the induttr it millionaire. laSt vtW'Vw How Thleics Are ronisiitd la this. There is no honesty among rural Chinamen, writes Ell Perkins in tho New York Sun. They all steal any thing that they can carry away without being seen. A farmer never leaves liuuausiw ruxiRfiKn Fon steamno. plow or a hoe in the field. It would be stilen. Each man guards hit own property, and it is a case of tho "survival of tho fittest." A Chinese rural family usually consists of from twonty to forty people, all related. Tho family govern ment is palriarchial. A small family would not dare to live Isolated. In tho big cities murder nnd theft are about tho only crimes punished. Every Chinaman lies, and the man who Is the most skill ful liar is considered the best man. Pun ishment for theft is made by locking a big heavy wooden collar around a rain's or woman's neck, and then exposing him or her to the gait of tho people. Flesh That Is Po'smous. The polor bear f)rc?uts on? of tho best attested examples of a poiaououj animal, Ibis property of its flush being probnbly derived from some of its vege table and berries which it reeks on tue fhores during the autumn. Scnresby lays that sailors who have been obliged to eat bear's flesh, and have not taken tho precaution of rejecting tbo liver, have almost always been attacked with sickneis, and a peeling oil of the tkin, and have sometimes died from its bane ful effects. The same thing happened to Sir John Ross's party at Fury Beach, also to the putty under Sir Edward Parry. In America, wli'jre the snow lies so deep as to prevent the deer from glazing, they are compelled to subsist by browsing on the leaves and bark of the luurol, incon sequence of which they secrete so much of its well known poison that their flesh, proves hurttul to persons who eat it. The flesh of hares and rabbits is occa sionally noxious, owing to their having eaten largely of poisouous barks and poisonous plants, which, strange to say, do not hurt them. The fact is, certain, animals will eat with impun'ty various plants, barks and berries, which prove poisonous to human beings. In the same way the flesh of many birds that eat poisonous berries is sometimes hurtful to jjooplo who partake of it. During tho time that the American ruffled grouso feeds on laurel buds its flesh is highly deleterious. Southey says that the fleshi of parrots is so powurful that it is used medicinally abroad. Yankee Blade. The Bible la Polyglot. There nre 3000 spoken languages. The Biblo has been translated into about 2'M) of them, but is accessible to fully two thirds of the human race, a billion peo ple. The Mandarin Chinese affords communication to 200,000,000 souls; the Kaglish to 120,000,000; the Hindu stani to 82,000,000; the German to B4, 000,000; the Arabic to 50,000,000. It appears, however, that there are ttill 500,000,000 soul, who have no Bible in their own tongue. The English people have translated most of the version that now exist. Now York Newt. An Instructive Trick. Ilere is a trick that will amuse and in struct: It consist of supporting a pail titled with water by means of a stick placed on the edge of a table and passed through the pail. To be successful with, tbis experiment, which appears liko art impossibility, it is only necessary to place a small rod of suitable longth be tween the point of the suspension stick and tho bottom of the pail. The system thus consolidated forms, after a manner, a single muss, and the pail is readily held us in tho engraving, becauso tbo whole ceutre of gravity of the system ia jbeueath the poiut of suspension. Thtj Scientific Cyclopedia. Hot Water on Tap. Public fountains of hot water are being stabilised ia Paris, France, oa the au fomatlo system. By putting half peony in the slot, anyone can obtain pearly two gallons of thoroughly hot prater, heated by the public got torvics, .The first fountain put up as an experi ment proved a gieut tuccest, at in auaa jner few housewives In the poorer quar ters care to keep tiro. New. lark Tliiraiu.
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