Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1915 — Famous Products of Cyprus. [ARTICLE]

Famous Products of Cyprus.

Cyprus gave its name to the metal copper. For it was from this island ♦i«t the got their supplies of the metal, which they knew as “Cyprium ass,- or. for short. “Cyprium,” in late Latin -cuprum.- Another famous product of the island was s tree —not the cypress, which has nothing to do with Cypres, bat the "cypres,” from which s valuable ea was mads. But it la better worth remembering as