The Daily Graphic says : At least
ten yean must be given to tbe work of
reaching the North Pole. It is tbe last
400 miles tbat bave hitherto offered the
greatest difficulties, and fifty miles a
a year progress wculd be ample. Tbe
Pole should be approached as if it were
a citadel, with regular advances well
supported ; stations should gradually
be formed, still pressing forward, and
affording ample provisions and protec
tion for the crews until, after years of
bsrd work, tbe purpose sball be accom
plished. Experience shows tbe pres
ent method to be entirely inadequate.
CnEATisa the Rats. Tbe West
Chester Arm gives this novel method :
'Jacob Hayes, of East Marlborough,
several years ago adopted the following
novel method of clearing bis barn of
rats, tie filled his cart with corn
fodder and placed a basket of core on
top with a light covering of fodder on
top of this. Hanling the cart into tbe
barn, he placed boards so tbat tbe rats
eonld run np into the carL The next
morning be bauled the eart out into a
field and dumped its load, when rats is
sued from the fodder in great numbers
and fifty or more were killed.
Incomes. Tbe Cxar Alexander re
ceives, in round numbers, $25,000 a
day income; the Turkish Sultan $18.
000 ; the Emperor of Austria $ 10,000:
the Emperor of Germany $8200 ; the
King or Italy $6440 ; tbe Queen or
England $6270; the King of tbe Bel
gians $1643; the President of the
French Repnblio $500 ; tbe President
of the United States $140.
The women suffragists or New Ha
ven beld a meeting last week to prove.
