Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-07-07

ten at Princeton, nine at Lehigh,
and two each in Brown and Yves
leyan. Even remote countries like
Japan send many students here, Yale
having this year seven japanese
students, the University of Penn
sylvania six, Cornell five, Harvard
four, and many other colleges one or
two Our excellent professional
courses are the attraction to most of
these foreigners, the University of
pennsylvania medical and dental
schools showing to-day seventy-flve
foreign students, chiefly Europeans.
Now THAT the latest opening of
lands in Oklahoma Territory has been
concluded, the railroad lines which
were laden with "boomersn and arus-
tiers" going into that section are
laden with disappointed men and
women coming out Fully so, ZOO
people secured rights in the new
lands, but it is safe to say that not
more than 5000 genuine settlers and
men of family have been able TO
locate claims. These settlers repre-
sent less than one-half the new pop
ulatlon. Many of them are without
means for every-days ubsistence II
reports from Kingflsher can be relied
upon, they will have struggle for
life this summer in a contention with
drought, sand, and hot weather, such
as Will discourage many of them. 1t
seems almost impossible to make reg
ulatlons for any opening of Govern
ment land that is not attended bv
dlsgraceful scenes, riotous proceed
lngs, and the presumption of land by
men In the employ of real-estate
spectators at town sites. Two towns
nave sprung up in the newly occupied
reservations with the characteristic
names of Okarohe and Caddo Springs.
the former Of which is said to resem-
Ole Guthrie in the early days of the
hrst Oklahoma land opening, and to
have fully 10000 wooden structures
III process of construction. The thou
sands of disappointed families who
failed to secure fertile land in the
rush OF last week have still a hope in
The coming opening of the Cherokee
strip, whose 6, 200, 900 acres may give
them a chance to secure homes.
IF the frailties of CHRISTOPHER
Columbus have deprived him of canon
lzatlon due to his perils and prowess,
that boon might justly be, bestowed
IN commiseration of his posthumous
Vlclssltudes and misfortunes. To
begin Immortality as the discoyerer Of
new world only to find it diverted
400 years later into tanning monkeys
seems more than sardonic fate should
inlet on any man. Giacomo Galetti.
a Chicago monkey trainer, who by
that magnanimous courtesy that pre-
Valls IN country otherwise some
what cold, is designated professor.
like many men of less laborious occu-
patton, looked one day at the bust of
Columbus in Genoa on public mon
ument. "By Iago," cried the profess
sor, that looks like my wife!" whose
nee name, as properly constructed
say, was Columbo or bi or
Column something, Then he remem-
Dered that Antonio, his cara sposa.
was born in Piacenza, and forthwith
ne went to the doge of the town and
got certificate that he, Giacomo.
had married into the family of the
great navigator. The monkey trainer
is now urging his adoption of the
FAMILY OF Columbus upon the direc-
tory, with what view is not yet clearly
known, perhaps only to secure a suit
able spot in the fine-arts building to
snow the accomplishments of his ar
lists. 1t is too bad to dissipate any
mans dream, especially the dreams
)f one who is engaged in showing
what Nature would have done had
she Kept right on making monkeys
INTO men instead of turning around in
ler wicked glee to make so many men
INTO monkeys. But veritas prevele-
DIT ruat celum; the Genoa monu.
nent bust is purely imaginary por-
raft constructed in 1862; and kinship
claimed for the Genoese cloth-weay-
RS son with the nobility of the PROV
nee OF Piacenza was an invention of
he dudish Ferdinand after his father
lad become admiral and he courtier.
The monkey trainer has married into
real Columbus aristocracy, and when
he adduces the coat of arms of the
navigator to confirm his claims. he
'nly revives the pitiful story that
Columbus was persuaded to ask their
oval nibs OF Spain to let him use
nat foppery in order to make up an.
'earances wholly theatrical. There
re less difficult and more profitable
occupations than monkey training,
mong them marrying into European
ristocracy. Professor aIetti should
q RIGHT, on trninipo l,;c r.,,;1oI -.