A tablet was placed in the Parliament building in honor of John Cabot, who four hundred years ago sailed from Bristol, England, and finally reached the shores of Newfoundland. An endeavor was made to make the celebration a general one throughout Canada and the United States, but this was found to be impracticable. Cabot's voyage could not be made of the same importance as that of Columbus. The foundation-stone of a monument to Cabot was laid in his native town of Bristol on the same day that the celebration took place in Halifax. * * * * * Lieutenant Peary has started on another Polar expedition, and feels hopeful that this time he will be able to reach the Pole. His plans for his trip are much the same as those of Dr. Nansen; that is to say, he will establish little colonies of Eskimos at certain distances along his route, leaving supplies with each colony, which he can fall back on in case of need. He intends to keep up a constant communication with these settlements by means of dogs and sledges, so that he will not be entirely cut off from the world as previous explorers have been. Lieutenant Peary has obtained five years' leave of absence from the Navy Department. He will therefore have plenty of time for his experiment. He says that if he fails the first time he will keep on trying until he succeeds in reaching the Pole. There is a story that one of the men who expect to go north with Lieutenant Peary has a scheme for reaching the Pole on a bicycle. This seems to be the strangest use thus far suggested for the bicycle. Mr. Lee, who is the inventor of this novel plan, was with Lieutenant Peary on his last trip. He says that there are miles and miles of smooth surface in the Polar regions that could easily be covered on a wheel. According to his statement the water freezes smoothly, and the salt crystals that form on the top of the ice make the surface like a gravelled path, and there is consequently no danger that the wheel would slip. He says that where the snow covers the ice it is pounded so hard by the winds that the crust is quite solid enough to bear the weight of a man. In his opinion a wheelman would find no difficulty in travelling over it. He thinks wheeling to the Pole is the simplest and most practical plan that has yet been proposed. If he goes with Lieutenant Peary, Mr. Lee declares that he will take his wheel along with him and make the experiment. He thinks that a man could wheel to the Pole and back from the north of Greenland in one week. The great difficulty in the way of his scheme is that it would not be safe for one man to make the trip alone. He thinks that at least half a dozen ought to start together. In those far northern lands the fewer white men there are in a party the better its chance of success, because they require so much more food than the Eskimos, and it has to be of a more dainty character. Where provisions are so scarce, this is a serious consideration.