Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

chusetts Institute of Technology alone shows students of. eighteen nationalities, seventeen are represented in the University of California, fifteen in both Harvard and ‘Yale, fourteen at Cornell and Michigan, ten at Princeton, nine at Lehigh, and two each in Brown atri Wesleyan. Even remote countries like Japan send many students here, Yale having this year seven Japanese students, the University of Pennsylvania 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-five foreign students, chiefly Europeans.

Now that the latest opening of lands in Oklahoma Territory has been concluded, the railroad lines which were laden with “boomers” and “rustlers” going into that section are laden with disappointed men and women coming out. Fully 50,000 people secured rights in the new lands, but it is safe to say that not more than 5,000 genuine settlers and men of family have been able to locate claims. These settlers represent less than one-half the new population. Many of them are without means for every-day subsistence. If reports from Kingfisher-can be relied upon, they will have a struggle for life this summer in a contention with drought, sand, and hot weather, such as will discourage many of them. It seems almost impossible to make regulations for any Opening of Government land that is not attended by disgraceful scenes, riotous proceedings, and the pre-emption of land by men in the employ of real-estate speculators at town sitqs. Two towns have sprung up in the newly occupied reservations with the characteristic names of Okarohe and Caddo Springs, the former of which is said to resemble Guthrie in the early days of the first Oklahoma land opening, and tc have fully 10,000 wooden structures in process of construction. The thousands 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 6,000,000 acres may give them a chance to secure homes.

If the frailties of Christopher Columbus have deprived him of canonization due to his perils and prowess, that boon might justly be bestowed in commiseration of his posthumous vicissitudes and misfortunes. To begin immortality as the discoverer of a new world only to find it diverted 400 years later Into taming monkeys seems more than sardonic fate should inflict on any man. Giacomo Galetti, a Chicago monkey trainer, who by that magnanimous courtesy that prevails in a country otherwise somewhat cold, is designated “professor,” like many men of less laborious occupation, looked one day ait the bust of Columbus in Genoa on a public monument. “By lago,” cried the professor, “that looks like my wife!” whose nee name, as properly constructed obituaries say, was Col umbo or bi or Colum something, Then he remembered that Antonia, his cara sposa, was born in Piacenza, and forthwith he went to the doge of the town and got a 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 directory, with what view is not yet clearly known, perhaps only to secure a suitable spot in the fine-arts building to show the accomplishments of his artist*. It is too had to disslpate’any man’s dfeam, especially the dreams of 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 her wicked glee to make so many men into monkeys. But veritas prevtelebit ruat ccelum; the Genoa monument bust Is a purely imaginary portrait constructed in 1862; and kinship claimed for the Genoese cloth-weav-er’s son with the nobility of the province of Piacenza was an invention of the dudish Ferdinand after his father had become admiral and he a courtier. The monkey trainer has married into areal Columbus aristocracy, and when he adduces the coat of arms of the navigator to confirm his claims, he only revives the pitiful story that Columbus was persuaded to ask their royal nibs of Spain to let him use that foppery in order to make up appearances wholly theatrical. There are less difficult and more profitable occupations than monkey training, among them marrying into European aristocracy. “Professor”Galetti should go right on training his guileless and docile simians. There’s both honor and money in that.