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IN WHICH THE NORTH POLAR PRACTICAL ASSOCIATION RUSHES A DOCUMENT ACROSS TWO WORLDS "Then Mr Maston, you pretend that a woman has never been able to make mathematical or experimental-science pro…
IN WHICH THE DELEGATES FROM ENGLAND, HOLLAND, SWEDEN, DENMARK AND RUSSIA ARE PRESENTED TO THE READER. One thing was evident to the whole world at once, namely, that if the new association should suc…
IN WHICH THE ARCTIC REGIONS ARE SOLD AT AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. Why was this sale on the 3d of December going to be held in the regular auction hall, where usually only such objects as furnit…
IN WHICH OLD ACQUAINTANCES APPEAR TO OUR NEW READERS, AND IN WHICH A WONDERFUL MAN IS DESCRIBED. Barbicane & Co. The president of a gunning club. And really what had gunners to do in such an ope…
IN WHICH THE POSSIBILITY THAT COAL MINES SURROUND THE NORTH POLE IS CONSIDERED. Are there coal mines at the North Pole? This was the first question suggested to intelligent people. Some asked why sh…
IN WHICH A TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MRS. SCORBITT AND J.T. MASTON IS INTERRUPTED. President Barbicane was not only convinced that he would reach his object when the amount which had been rais…
IN WHICH PRESIDENT BARBICANE SAYS NO MORE THAN SUITS HIS PURPOSE. On the 22nd of December the subscribers to Barbicane & Co. were summoned to a general meeting. It is hardly necessary to say tha…
YES, JUST LIKE JUPITER. Since that memorable meeting in honor of Michel Ardan, the Hon. J.T. Maston had talked and thought of nothing else but the "changing of the axis of the earth." He h…
IN WHICH APPEARS THE FRENCH GENTLEMAN TO WHOM WE REFERRED AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS TRUTHFUL STORY. Such, then, were to be the profits due to the changes which were to be wrought by President Barbica…
IN WHICH A LITTLE UNEASINESS BEGINS TO SHOW ITSELF. A month had elapsed since the meeting of the Gun Club and the stockholders of the new-formed society, and public opinion was getting much altered.…
