The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-30

COLUMBUS SITS FOR Ills PORTRAIT.
lf35, at Genoa. He died May 90, 1906.
at Falladolid, from collapse and coma
brought ON by having tried to resemble
his different portraits.
The most reliable biographcr of the
great admiral VINO so soon noted the
value of America us an opening for the
soiletl and oppressed Of the Old World,
where they could come and bring their
cholera with them, was Fernando Co.
lombo, the son.
Christopher Columbus was educated
ut the normal school in Pariu, where he
stood well in mathematics, and especi-
ally in trigonomctry. or tho science OF
triSs.
Antonio de Terzago was his tutor, it
Is said. De Terzago was the originator
OF the mathematical discovery that in
addition great saving of timo and also
greater accuracy may be secured by
setting down the right hand figures and
carrying the tens to the next column.
At tho ago of fifteen Columbus be-
calno sailor and began sitting for H.,
picture.
There were three sons III the Colum-
ricd Il butcher. Her brother, it is said
on his first voyage brought with him
from America a dozen softshell crabs
aud a diamond back terrapin for his sis
ter's husband, but no one would pur-
chase them, and they persisted on his
hands This brother-in-law afterwar,l
wrote Il piece for the paper stating tina.
reciprocity with America was not what
1t had been cracked up to be.
Another biographer says that Column
bus went to sea at the age of fourteen
bnt this may be because of the confict
regarding the year of his birth.
Columbus was soon placed in corl-
nland OF Il cruiser ard visited the archi-
pclago. He also went TO Iceland, hop
Ing to End IN open polar sea. This is not
generally known, but get it pretty
straight and nave 10 reason to doubt it.
He visited what was then called Fries
land. or Ultima Thule, from the Latin
tongue, and signifying tho jumping Off
place. 1t was what is now called Ice
land, and Columbus was one of the
earliest navigators to penetrate to the
region of the pole and leave IL pantaloons
button on the axle of the world On his
return he said that the only thing i'll
favor of that country as home was that
there were neither mosquitoes nor ma
laria there. He stalled off town, but
the claim was jumped by polar bear
and reverted to the original owners.
Las Casas describes Columbus rs hay
ing long face, ruddy in places; AN
aquiline nose. clear gray eyes, quick,
OrD 1t,.l,k
which had begun to grow gray at thirty
He fell in love with and married Filipa
Monis de Palestrello, who was in the
convent where he used to pray of
morning. Her father was very Door.
being governor of Porto Santo and try
ing to live on his salary. This had never
been tried before and has not been at
tempted since. He died leaving little
except a chart of the world, together
with what was supposed then to be an
accurate drawing of the underpinnine
upon which it rested.
Not long after this Columbus contded
in Paolo Tascarelh his belief that it
would now be good time to discover
America.
Tascarelli was a physician and cos
mographer of that place and man
rather in advance of his time, as was
Columbus. Tascarelli lived on his prac-
tice as physician and relied very little
on what he could make as q cosmogra-
pher
He was the first physician to discover
that the fly Of Spain, if collected in large
quantities and placed on the human skin.
would make blister. Let us not, then.
in our enthusiasm over Columbus for
get the man who discovered the blister
and perfected it.
Columbus and Tascarelli were great
friends, and one day the former said to
Tascarelli:
DOC, feel almost certain that /, too
am going to discover something. Yon
now feel of course clated over the dis
coyery of the blister. but the day will