Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — A Mine as a Paris Exhibit. [ARTICLE]

A Mine as a Paris Exhibit.

M. Paschal Grousset, deputy of Paris, proposes, as a noyelty for the exhibition of 11)00, to dig a mine to the depth of 1,500 meters, In wtiich an exhibition of coal, diamond, gold and other mining could be given. It would be a paying “side show,” he thinks.

Professor Culin, of the Museum of Archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania, states that football originated with the Chinese. The game was popular in China and Japan as early as the seventh or eighth century.