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Steamers to keep up the average and regularity of their trips in winter as well as 

 in summer, and thus increase the number of round trips per annum from the 

 present average of twenty to thirty ; third, a temperate parallel, which will 

 render passenger travel comparatively safe and pleasant the year round, and 

 enormously increase it; fourth, entire avoidance of the dangers from icebergs 

 and rough seas of the northern parallels, and a consequent prolongation of the 

 life of ships and decrease in the costs of insurance. Besides the above advant- 

 ages the new route, the Belgians claim, will be from 150 to 300 miles shorter 

 than the route to Liverpool, and will have the Canary Islands as a sort of half- 

 way station if necessary. 



THE GREELY RELIEF EXPEDITION. 



The advance vessel of the Greely Relief Expedition, the Bear, has sailed 

 from New York for the polar regions. The other two vessels, the Alert and the 

 Thetis, will quickly follow. These are the strongest and best equipped steamers 

 that ever set out to battle with the ice. The prayers of millions of people in 

 both continents will follow them on their mission of mercy. If Lieut. Greely and 

 his party are still at Lady Franklin bay the relief vessels are expected to go 

 there and bring them home ; if they have started southward in the hope of 

 reaching one of the supply depots which they established on their northern voy- 

 age on the coast of Grinnell Land and at Littleton Island, the relief party must 

 search for them. Lieut. Greely's instructions were to abandon his station not 

 later than September r, 1883, should no relief ship reach him. If these instruc- 

 tions have been carried out there is no telling at what port the party may be 

 waiting to be rescued. The rehef ships are expected either to find them or to 

 ascertain their fate. 



The twenty-nine men who composed the Greely parly are officers and en- 

 listed men of the regular army detailed for duty in the signal corps. They were 

 sent to Lady Franklin bay to establish and maintain a meteorological station for 

 two years, in accordance with a plan agreed upon by the International Polar 

 Commission. Nothing has been heard of Lieut. Greely since the day the Pro- 

 teus left Lady Franklin Bay, in the summer of 1880. Two relief expeditions 

 have been sent after the Greely party without avail, as the world knows. It is 

 sincerely to be hoped that the third and last one may be successful. — National 

 Republican. 



"TAKING AIM"— TWO EYES OR ONE? 



Quite a lively discussion is said to be taking place in England as to whether 

 a marksman generally takes aim with both eyes or one in rifle shooting. Those 

 who consider that one eye alone is used endeavor to prove their case thus : 



