Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-11-02
NEUROLOGICAL .... WHO WAS
Drtdf h NEPTUNE (? >

Rhea, and the brother of Jupiter and
Pluto. His father was so extravagantly
fond of him that he had him for his
breakfast the morning he was born. Most
fathers would have felt bad at the early
demise of their child Saturn did, but
il was only because of Indigestion. He
did not take the matter at heart at all
but rather to the place where the whale
took Jonah. As we have said, Saturn
was good deal hurt at the filial ingrati-
tude of Neptune in refusing to digest,
and at last he forcibly elected him from
his premises.
Saturn made a digest of the laws
passed by the legislature, besides mum.
ber of tough and ridiculous things and
he had not anticipated any trouble in
slowing away triAing little deity or
two.
When Neptune was released he joined
with his brothers in their rebellion against
their stern parent, and was the object OF
particular hatred on the part Of Saturn.
The indignant old gentleman struck al
him a number of times, but his musical
faculty was poorly developed, and he
never could strike tune Of any kind
Nep. or otherwise.
Saturn was time itself and, and at the
end of fourteen days, he of course be-
came too weak to make any resistance,
and he had to succumb.
When the cruel war was over, he be
came saturnine, and refused any com
fort, or in fact, bed clothes of any kind
but he was not left out in the cold by @
great deal.
Jupiter confined him to Tartarus
where he languished in hopeless impris
onment.
The universe was divided by sort O.
rule of three between the brothers. Nep
tune took notion to the ocean, and pro
ceeded to seize the seas. He proclaimed
himself monarch of all he surveyed
How many acres that was is not stated
but it is likely he surveyed enough fol
his immediate residence, as it would
have been almost impossible to have
measured the whole ocean. Neptune
built himself splendid palace beneath
the wave. All the wood work was made
of sea-der, and painted in ultra marine
1t had nearly all the modern conven
fences; although be had no gas, he had
water all over the house. Mother-of
pearl was engaged for his housekeeper
Neptune helped to do the heaviest par
of the building himself, for, although
not by any means powerful god, he hac
q good deal of muscle.
Neptune was rather good-lookine
deity. He is represented on ancient
gems as scudding over the sea in hal
she'll, under bare poles, with mere trift
as to garments on his person. He car
ried a three pronged hay fork in his
hand, while dolphins and mermen gam
boiled around him. From the fact tha
Pharaoh was lost in the Red Sea, it II
not unlikely that they may have founc
him, and made him their game. This il
only surmise, however.
Neptune was married TO two or thre'
wives. He was quite fearless of thu
perils of matrimony. Being in the ocear
all the time, he knew that there was ne
danger of getting into hot water on &C
count OF it.
His favorite spouse was Amphitrite
She had two children-Triton was thu
elder He was made his fathers trump
eter. He was by no means violent god
but he frequently came to blows, although
IT is not stated what he did when he go
them. He performed with some taste oil
the conch shell, and was the patron deitl
of canal boatuen. Some one has stateC
that his favorite air was Shells Of th'
Ocean" but this is very likely poo
gag. as Triton lived under water and M
air Of any kind, and the song was writ
ten by Socrates long afterward.
Triton had a sister named Rhoda, wht
was wooed by the Sun God, and won, il
the form of q water spout Not the til
kind, however, that adorn the outside o
dwelling houses.
Another Of Neptune's wives was Iphe
media. She had two sons married, Olui
and Ephialtes, who were giants IN thos'
days, and probably would have been II
these if they had lived.
These precocious and fstine urchins
when they were uineyear old, ATTEMPTED
to scale heaven by piling the Tessaliar
mountains on each other Their fathei
wisely ordered them to desist, so theJ
contented themselves by sealing th.
hnny creatures who sported in the baci
yard -
The Cyclope Polyghemus was the sol
Of Neptune and ThoosA This interest
ing young man was chiefly remarkabl'
for having only one eye, which detracte'
somewhat from the beauty of his genera
arpearance, put it was on the Who'll
rather economical, as he had 70 pay onll
half price for spectacles, and he coul'
not By the remotest possibility becon
crcssed-eyed