Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1881 — No New Thing. [ARTICLE]

No New Thing.

The idea of the cutting of the Isthmus of Panama does not date from yesterday. In 1528 a Portuguese navigator, Antonia Galvao, proposed to Charles V. to make an interoceanic communication. In 1780 Nelson proposed a canal through Nicaragua. Von Humboldt took up the project in 1804. In 1841 Remy de Puydt took a colony to Honduras to dig a canal there. Two year’s later Gavella and Couftines were sent out by Guizot to study the question; they pronounced against the possibility of the enterprise. In 1842 the Government of Nicaragua asked Louis Napoleon Bonaparte to lend his name to the enterprise. After his escape from Ham Louis Napoleon did appeal to the public for funds in a pamphlet, “Le Canal de Nicaragua,” but the project fell through. To be vain of what you have learned is the same as to plume yourself on a piece of game you have received from a