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Show FAMOUS SONS OF COLUMBUS On Rot to Distinction an Admiral and the Other Wn a Great Scholar. How often do wo hear of tha son of Colunibua? Yet the great discoverer discover-er had two Bona, ono of whom, Don Diego, rone to dlHtlnrtlon as an ad-nilrul, ad-nilrul, and the other. Fernando, a a scholar. Fernando wu a (treat traveler. IT not only thrice visited America, but subsequently traveraed tha whole of Europe and almost every aeeeaslbl portion of Asia and Africa. In hi wilt he stipulated Unit hi library, containing contain-ing 20,000 volume, which h gave to the cathedral of Seville, ahould be free to the people, and It Ik bo to thla day. From hooka In hln collection Washing-ton Washing-ton Irving obtained a considerable portion of the Information on which hi "I.lf.f of Columbus" wan founded. The following quaint epitaph, almost obliterated by time, appear upon the Ite of hi tomb: "What doe It profit ma to bar sptlnkled the whole world with my sweat, to have three time rroaaed to the new world dlitcovered by my father, fa-ther, to have embellished the shore of the tranquil (iuadalqulver and preferred pre-ferred my Rimple taste rather than rlehe. or that I have assembled round thee dlvlnttle from the source of Can-talla Can-talla and offered to thee the rlche gathered by Ptolemy, If. 'passing In silence si-lence over thla stone, thou ahouldst fall to address a single salutation to my father' memory, or to niyne.lt a light remembrancer " |