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An Extinct Family

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
January
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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it 18 a curioua tact that tuere are no known deccendantsjof Christopher Coluaibus. He had two sou, tue of whoni, Don Diego, rose to distinotion as an adniiral, aud the other, Fernando, s a acholar. Fernando was a great travel er. He not ouly thrice Tisited Amerioa, but subsequently traverded tho wholo of Europe, aud every aooessible portioo oí Asia aud Afrion. He appears to have boen a profouná subilar and a thoroughly goed man. In his wilt be stipulated that bis library, containing twenty thousand volumes, whioh hegave lo the Cathedral of Seville, shnuld be free to the people, and it is to this day. From books in this ooilectiun the late Waehing'on IrvitiJ obtaioed a considerable portion of tho information on which hia " Life of Columbus " was t'oaudud. The iollowing quaint cpitaph almost obliterated by time, appears on the table whioh marks tho site of his tomb : "What doth it protit to have sprinkled tho whole world with ïny sweat; to have three times orossed the New World digeovored by my father ; to have ombelli.shed the shores of trauquil üuadalquiver, aud prelerred my Bimple tistes raíher thnn riolics, o that I havo nssemblod tuound thee the divinities from the source of Castalia, and offer to theo the riches gathered by Ptolemy, if pasHiug in si'cnce over this stonr, thou rhouldcst fail to addreB singlu faalutation to uiy father's memo ry." For the nine hundreitiktitnn it Is rtJiorted in Washington that Pish is to re sign. Who eares wLo'Ult he resigna o , uut

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Old News
Michigan Argus