The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-23
OUR NEW COLUMBUS.
History of the Great Discoyerer
BY q Faithful Pen.
How He Started Out in Life TO Get BIS Pic
ture, Besides Thinking About
Discovering America.
[Convrirht. 1se2. l


The great demand for more and more
Columbus literature has brought out many
new facts regarding the great discoverer,
and yet many inquiries are received at this
Office every day regarding the personal
history of Columbus. his education, ETC.,
notwithst landing the fact that every news
paper al magazine for the past six months
has ransacked the Old and New Worlds
for data regarding him.
1t may nosbe out of place, therefore, to
summarize regarding the great navigator
for the benefit of those who have no time
to read voluminous biographies, but who
are in search OF something terse, yet trust
worthy.
Columbus was the eldest son of Dominica
Colombo and Susanna Fontanarossa, and
he was born, IL Is thought, in l435, at
Genoa, He died May 20. 1906, at Vallado-
lid, from collapse and coma brought on by
having tried to resemble his different por-
traits.
The most reliable biographer of the great
admiral who so coon noted the value OF
America as an opening for the soiled and
oppressed Of the Old World, where they
could come and bring their cholera with
them, was Fernando Colombo, the son.
Christopher Colum bus was educated at
the normal school in Paria, where he stood
well in mathematics, and especially in trig-
onometry, or the science Of trigs.
Antonio de Terzago was his tutor, it is
said. De Terzag0 was the originator of
the mathematical discovery that in addi-
ton great saving of time and also greater
accuracy may be secured by setting down
the right hand figures and carrying the
tens to the next column.
AT the age of fifteen Columbus became
sailor and began sitting for his picture.
There were three sons in the Columbus
family and one daughter, who married
butcher. Her brother. it is said, on his
first voyage brought with him from
America a dozen softshell crabs and dia-
mond back terrapin for his sisters hus-
band, but no one would purchase them
and they persisted on his hands This
brother-in-lsw afterward wrote piece for
the paper stating that reciprocity with
America was not what it had been cracked
up TO be.
Another biographer says that Columbus
went TO sea at the age of fourteen, but this
nay be because of the conflict regarding
the year of his birth.
Columbus was soon placed in command
OF cruiser and visited the archipelago
He also went 10 Iceland. hoping to find an
open polar sea. This is not generally
known, but l get 1t pretty straight aud
have no reason TO doubt it.
He visited what was then called Fries
land, or Ultima Thule, from the Latin,
tongue, and sgnifying the jumping off
place. 1t was what is now called Iceland,
and Columbus was one OF the earliest navi-
gators TO penetrate TO the region of the pole
and leave psntaloons button on the axle
OF the world. On his return he said that
the only thing in favor of that country as
home was that there were neither mosqui-
toes nor malaria there. He staked of a
town, but the claim was jumped by polar
bear and reverted to the original owners.
Las Casas describes Columbus as having
long face, rudy in places; an acquiline
nose clear gray eyes, quick. commanding
glance and light hair, which had begun to
grow gray at thirty.
He fell IN love with and married Filipa
Monis de Palestrello, who was in the con-
vent where he used to pray of morning.
Her father was very poor, being governor
of Porto Santo and trying to live on his
salary. This had never been tried before
and has not been attempted since. He
died leaving little except chart of the
world, together with what was supposed
then to be an accurate drawing of the I'M
derpinning upon which it rested.
Not long after this Columbus confded in
Psolo Tascarelii his belief that il would
now be good time to discover America.