The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-13


that the similarity between the names
Ham and Hamlin was something more
than a coincidence. TIE industry OF a
Smith has discovered among the Assyrian
ruins the medal link which makes the con-
| nection perfectly apparent. Ham, the sec
ond son of Noah, is spoken OF in these
records from KouyuDjik H1mbl
Hamln; and no candid mind can fail to
see that the extreme antiquity OF the senator
| from Maine is thus very clearly established.
"Hambl Hsmln down with the scurvy.
Must put him ashore" Buhmi literally
signifies earth, dirt; and the phrase nam
| Bulmi is often used in these descriptions In
the sense of to put in the eartn, or bury.
| This can hardly be the meaning here, how
ever, for the Ark was still afioat. Nam
Bulmi can therefore hardly be constructed
otherwise than "put ashore" Note the sig
nificance. The Ark is beating up and down
OFF THE COAST OF MAINE,
waiting for a nor'west wind. Poor Ham, or
Hanbi Hamin, as he should properly be
called, has reason to regret his weakness
for maritime excursions aud naval junket
ing parties. The lack of fresh vegetables
and steady diet of corned mastodon, have
told upon his system. Poor Hambil When
he was collector of a Mediterranean port
just before the flood, he was accustomed 10
have green peas and asparagus ranked him
daily from the Garden of Eden. But now
the ranking privilege has been
abrogsted, and the Garden OF
Eden is fully forty fathoms under the
brine. Everything is salt. His swarthy face
grows pale and haggsrd. His clawhammer
coat drooPs upon an attenuated frame. He
chews bis cheroot moOdily as be stands
upon the hurricane deck of the Ark with
his thumbs in his vest pocket, and thinks
that he can hold Office on this earth but
little longer. His gums begin to soften.
GhnUd nf
Noah therefore, after considerable argu-
mentor Hambli is reluctant to get out OF
any place he has once got into-nam
Buhmi's him-puts him ashore. We have
no further record of Hsmbl Hsmln, but it is
perfectly reasonable to assume that after be-
ing landed on the rocky coast
of Maine, he subsisted upon
huckleberries until sufficiently re-
covered from the scurvy, then sailed up
the Penobscot upon a log, founded the an
Gent village of Ham-den, which he named
after himself, and was Immediately elected
to some public position. In Mr.. Rounds
long and profoundly interesting communi-
cation l have, fear. an embarras de rich
ess. From the many curious legends which
Mr.. Smith has dsciphered shall select only
one more, and shall deal briefly with that.
1t is the story of an opposition ark. At the
time of the flood there lived certain metch-
ant named Birth, who had achieved COM
petence In
THE RETAIL GROCERY BUSINESS.
In fact he was al antedeluvian millionaire.
Birth had been converted from heathenism
by the exceedingly effective preaching OF
Noah, but bad subsequently, backslidden.
When it began to thunder and lightning,
however, and to grow black in the north
west, Birth professed recurring symptoms
of piety. He came down to the gangway
plank of the Ark and applied for passage
for himself and family. Moab, who was
checking off the animals on the back of
an Old tax bill, stsrnly refused to entertain
any such idea. Birth had recently
defeated him for the Common Council.
The worthy grocer's money now stood him
in good stead. He did the mos. sensible
thing possible under the circumstances. He
built an ark for himself, painted in big let
tsrs along its side the words: "rhe Only
Safe Plan of Universal Navigationw aud
named it the Toad The Toad was fashioned
after the model of the Ark, and there being
no copyright in those days. Noah could only
hope that it might prove trustworthy. In
tho Toad, Birth embarKef his wife Briatha,
bis two daughters, Phessar and Bar
rem, his sons in-law, Lampra and Pin
nyish, and select assortment of
beasts hardly inferior to that col
lected by Noah himself. Lampra and Pin
nysh, sly dogs, persuaded Fifty of the most
beautiful women they could find to come
along WlC0 JD0in. BrlLl was not SO goa
sailor as Moab. He put to sea full forty
days too soon. He lost his dead reckoning
and beat around the ocean for the space OF
seven years and a quarter, living mostly
upon the rats that infested the Toad. Birth
had foolishly neglected to provision his craft
for long voyage After this protrscted
sailing, the passengers and crew OF the
Toad managed to make landing one rainy
evening, and took ashore with themselves,
their baggage, and a coon and dromedary,
the sole surviving
RELICS OF THEIR PROUD MENAGERIE.
Once on terra fiima, the three men separa-
ted, having drawn up a tripsrtite covenant
of perpetual amity and divided up the stock
of wives. Birth took Is, Lamprs took Is,
and Pinnyisb, who seems to have been an
essy-going sort of fellow, too lazy to quarrel
had to be satisfied with the seventeen that
remained. tablets from Nebbi Yunus,
throw some light on the interesting ques-
ton as to the landing place of this party.
Khayarta, certainly means Island, and
Dyinim, undeniably signifies Long. Per
'haps, therefore, Mr.. Rounds is justified in
bis opinion that the Toad dropped anchor in
Wallabout Bay, and that Brooklyn and the
Plymouth society owe their origin to this
singular expedition.