It is probably the only absolutely moral spot in the World.

    Scientists declare it to be the site of the Garden of Eden, thus giving colour to the popular notion that Eden was the original Roof Garden.

    The only language that has ever been spoken at the North Pole is English.

    The language that Lieutenant Peary used when he found the footprint of Doctor Cook on the Pole, whatever else it might be, was English, and the language of the next

    discoverer, when he finds (or does not find) the footprint of Lieutenant Peary, will probably be English too.

    Whatever use may be ultimately found for the North Pole, up to the present time it has only been used for advertising purposes.

    The frozen tracts that surround it bear the names of Adventurers, Princes and Editors, and the very topmost tip, out of compliment to a well-known pianist and politician, has been called the Magnetic Pole.

    So far as we know, all the disadvantages of the North Pole are shared by the South Pole, but for some reason the South Pole has never been so successful as an advertising medium.

     AMERICA

    Let us see America first.

    On a modern map of the Western Hemisphere America is as easy to see as the Decorations on the breast of a Rear Admiral of a Dry Dock.

    One wonders how it escaped being discovered so long!

    But when you look at this map of the Western Hemisphere as it appeared about a thousand years ago, when Lief Ericsen discovered New England, you will understand that

    discovering America in those days was no child’s play.

    Nevertheless, Lief, the son of Eric, did not think much of his find.

    How could a lowbrowed viking be expected to understand Boston, much less what was going to be Boston in a thousand years!

    After writing his Impressions of America in obscure Runes on a conspicuous 

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