Arizona republican., 1892-11-16


1875, at Genoa. He died May 20, 1906,
at valladolid, from collapse and coma
brought on by having tried to resemble
his different portraits.
The most reliable biographer of the
great admiral who so soon 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 Co
lombo, the son.
Christopher Columbus was educated
at the normal school in Paria, where he
stood well in mathematics, and especi-
daily in trigonometry, or the science of
trigs.
Antonio de Terzago was his tutor, it
is said. De Terzago was the originator
of the mathematical discovery that in
addition a 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 be.
came a sailor and began sitting for his
picture.
There were three sons in the Column
bus family and one daughter, who mar
ried butcher. Her brother, it is said,
on his first voyage brought with him
from America a dozen softshell crabs
and 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 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 Colum-
bus went to sea at the age Of fourteen,
but this may be because Of the conflict
regarding the year Of his birth.
Columbus was soon placed in com.
mand Of a cruiser and visited the archi.
pelago. He also went to Iceland, hop,
ing to find an open polar sea. This is not
generally known, but | get it pretty
straight and have no reason to doubt it,
lie visited what was then called Fries
land, or Ultima Thule, from the Latin
tongue, and signifying the jumping of
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 a pantaloons
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 mosquitoes nor ma
laria there. He staked off town, but
the claim was jumped by polar bear
,.aY.arta1 70 tho gpiFr al
Las Casas describes Columbus as hav,
ing a long face, ruddy in places; an
aquiline nose, clear gray eyes, a quick
commanding glance and light hair
which had begun to grow gray at thirty
He fell in love with and married Filipa
Monis do Palestrello, who was in the
convent where he used to pray of 8
morning. Her father was very poor
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 chart of the world, together
with what was supposed then to be al
accurate drawing of the underpinning
upon which it rested.
MOI long aIter TINS Columbus conhdeC
in Paolo Tascarelli his belief that il
would now be good time to discover
America.
Tascarelli was a physician and cos
mographer of that place and mar
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 a 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 grea
friends, and one day the former said Il
Tascarelli:
doc, feel almost certain that l, too
am going to discover something Yor
now feel Of course elated over the dis
covery of the blister, but the day vii