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PARIS — An expedition which was recently sent out from Chicago has ascertained that Columbus landed on Watling Island, and has accordingly erected a monument in his honor on the exact spot where his feet first pressed the soil. Nothing is easier than to find out upon what island Columbus first landed. You write the names of the three islands which claim this honor on separate slips of paper, and, after putting them in a hat, draw out the correct name. This is doubtless the course which was pursued by the members of the Chicago expedition; but why they should have troubled themselves about Columbus and his discoveries is not so clear. — The New York Herald, European Edition, July 8, 1891