Show WE LIVE AND LEARN we keep on learning something about the land we live In which goes to show that it will be some time yet be fore borri we know it all regarding america if indeed such euch a state abate of inform information aaion in ie at all possible po the columbian columbi 1 a n fair dedication at chicago doub doubt t 1 lem m did more good goo d than will ever be recorded or acknowledged chiefly in the way of causing those who thought themselves thear elvea po poetee ted to learn some now new things thing by investigation and brushing brut up and those who were not to find out how very ignorant they really were while to all classes and among every condition some florae now new pointers 11 were acquired by the force of comparison and association of ideas in these quadro days daye says aye a it la Is worth while to recall the fact that the continent now named america has hai gone at ore OD time or another by a great many names the notion that columbus hold held of finding a westward wee passage to india by way of the atlantic to la recorded by the names of now new india and india occidental found upon old map capi as indicating the land discovered by columbus Colum bui america eana was waa an old name of north america as america peruvians Peru viana was of south america then Brazil was for a time the name applied to the southern aou thern continent finally says the same authority the of the name dame america has been gravely disputed though the weight of tea testimony leaves practically no doubt that it comes from the christian name dame of amerigo vespucci some borne early authorities however gravely contend that the name came from the peruvian word amaru meaning the sacred adored symbol of the orom made of a serpent and a stick and suffix ca meaning country thus thua derived america means meana the land of the holy animal if those who named it that could coul donly only return fro from in the obad esaud witness one of our great political campaigns they would surely credit themselves themi elvei with more foresight han occurred to them at the time |