It is related that one day, when the arctic explorer Nansen was
battling with the ice-floes in the Polar seas, a carrier-pigeon
tapped at the window of Mrs. Nansen’s home at Christiania.
Instantly the casement was opened, and the wife of the famous
arctic explorer in another moment covered the little messenger
with kisses and caresses. The carrier-pigeon had been away from
the cottage thirty long months, but it had not forgotten the way
home. It brought a note from Nansen stating that all was going
well with him and his expedition in the Polar regions. He had
fastened the message to the frail courier, and turned it loose
into the frigid air. It flew like an arrow over a thousand miles
of frozen waste, and then sped forward over another thousand
miles of ocean and plain and forests, and one morning entered
the window of the waiting mistress, and delivered the message
for which she had been waiting so anxiously. (Text.)
(2020)
=Messengers, Business=--See TIME-SAVERS.
=Meteorites=--See HEAVENLY VISITORS.
=Meteorological Changes and Crime=--See CRIME, EPIDEMICS OF.