Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1915 — So Departed the Colossus. [ARTICLE]

So Departed the Colossus.

The remains of the Colossus of Rhodes have been dispersed beyond possibility of recovery, or even of tracing. It stood for little more than half a century, and then, In 224 B. C., was overthrown by an earthquake. The Rhodians raised from imnevolent outsiders large sums of money for its restoration, but divided the fund among themselves, asserting that the oracle of Delphi had forbidden them to set it up again. So theu the ruin lay until 672 A. D., when the Saracens sold it to a Jewish merchant, who loaded 900 camels and went away—literally —with the brass.