COLUMBUS & HIS YOUNGEST.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 214, 3 April 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

COLUMBUS & HIS YOUNGEST.

Chicago is going to celebrate the 400 th anniversary of the discovery of America. Columbus did not discover Chicago. She discovered herself, and a great deal of the contiguous territory. Had there been any rivalry or conteit between the two, the chances are ten to anything that Chicago would have discovered Columbus before he was out of sight of land. Chicago did not have to be discovered. She never tried to hide. In fact, people go to Chicago to be discovered. At feast many of them are discovered soon after they go there. Every now and then Chicago makes an effort to discover St. Louis ; but this is the only effort that the Chicago papers acknowledge unsuccessful. It is generally believed that Columbus did not go to Chicago on his first visit to America, because he had both pockets full of property and valuables to hand round amoiu his friends when he got back homo, On a subse qucnt visit, however, he spent most of hi* time there. At any rate, it is well known be was sent to gaol as soon a* he got back. It is right and proper that the discovery of America should be celebrated in Chicago. Because, if there is a city on tho continent that is, in its birth, its marvellous growth, its development, itself, utterly unlike anything that Columbus and the old world dreamed of, it is Chicago. — Burnette.

From the examination of the papyri and other aucient manuscripts belonging to the Austrian Archduke Rainer, it appears that block printing was known to the Arabs in the n.nth century. A text, with marginal ornaments, giving Arabic prayers, is found to have been printed from one block on a strip of paper. " Dear me, it is raining, Mr* Randall. You can't go out iv the wet. Won't you stay to tea ?" " No, thanks ; I must be getting home." " Well, anyway, you must wear my rubbers." " No, thank you, Mrs Hopkins it isn't raining much, and boaide I havent any string to tie them on with." After the door was cloned Mrs Hopkins said who wished th mean old thing -would catoh bei death of cold.