Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1887 — Changes in the Holy Land. [ARTICLE]

Changes in the Holy Land.

Even the Holy Land is being deprived of its picturesqneness. A correspondent says that a big soap factory has been built where of old stood the town of Shechem. Bethlehem has been rebuilt and gas introduced; Nazareth has become the headquarters of a large company of olive oil speculators; C i sarea is being rebuilt in modern stylo; Mount Car mol has been bought np by laud speculators; a glue factory is going up at Hamoth Gilead, while Jerusalem bos been delivered over to all sorts of Occidental improvements, including clocks on the public buildings, a street-cleaning bureau, the Paris fashion journals, and even the telephone and an oc asional bicycle.