The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-10-14
shaking his head ominously as he
took his departure.
SEA-MYTHS.
Sirens, Tritons, Dolphins and
Fathers OF the Fair"
Knights, Monks and Bishops Of
the Ocean-Marine Lions, Pan
theirs and Rams.
Boston Globe.

q 4 DOSIOn O.ODe
r Sea-myths are in such profusioI
and variety. says writer in Colder
Days, as even to make Old Fathe
Barhel, sometime fisherman and af
terward fish, of "Grimm's COLLINS
notoriety, stare with as great wonder
as when be saw his mortal enemy
ii e King of the Pixies, in company
with the witch of waters for even in
our prosaic age we have only just got
over the belief in "mermaids," and
have still to undergo sea-serpent
stories, periodically recurring, some
apparently as fabulous as the sea-
gods of classic lore.
The wondrous Grecian mythology
owes not a little of its wealth and
beauty to the great deed over which
Neptune, the Greek Poseidon, gath
erer of the clouds, guardian of the
winds and lord and tanner of the
hOrse--presides.
In his train the Tritons-men from
The waist upward, below half horse,
half fish--came from their golden
palaces in the lowest depths of the
sea, and rode on the pillows, blowing
their shells to calm the raging of the
angry ocean.
The famed Venus--the Greek
Aphrodite, born of the sea-foam the
god-Ilke shepherds, Proteus, Nercus
and Glaucus, who ATTENDED Neptune's
aquatic flock, and the Nertides, young
and beautiful nymphs, who resided
''full fathom five" in caves and grot-
toes of the ocean all adorned with
shells and br inches of the vine, and
all undergoing.
"A sEA-CHANGE INTO SOMETHING RICH
AND STRANGE"
These are some of the most notable
mythical inhabitants of the world of
waters.
The Mercedes. rising to the surface
of the waves, rode2n dolphins' backs.
trident in hand Or garlanded with
flowers; and the Sirens, fatal three,
who spread o'er the silver waves
their golden hair basked near sun
Lit rocks and lured all men to their
ruin, save only the crafty Ulysses, by |
their enchanting voices.
Christopher Columbus, sailing by |
the coast of St. Domingo, met three
sirens, but these must have been
another set, for the "only original"
sisters incontinently drowned them
selves upon their failure to entrap
the Grecian hero.
The dolphins, whose ewes were in
their blade bones, who fed their young
at the breast, dug graves and followed
their dead In mournful procession,
were 1.-THE arrows of the sea" and the
great carriers of ancient times.
Not only did they bear the fifty
daughters of Nereus safely on their
backs, but Arion, the sweet singer,
when forced to leap into the sea to
escape the sailors who would have
murdered him, had previously so
charmed the dolphins by his playing,
that they congregated around the
ship, and one of them bore AriOn in
safety to Tan> rus, while the musician
With harmonious strains,
Requites his bearer for his friendly pains.
When the guilty sailors subsequent
ly reach the land, their per6dy
having been explained to King Per-
lander, that monarch ordtrs their
execution.
PLINY's STORY OF THE DOLPHIN THAT
CARRIED BOY
Of Bale every morning across to
Puteoli to school and back again at
night, seems equally apocryphal with
the preceding. The youth is said to
have rewarded the fish with a liberal
supply of bread; and here the dol
phin's real character seemed to be hit,
for he has not any carrying powers in
our day, nor any taste for music,
while his affection for man is IN
cupboard love"
The poets and the story-tellers.
however, have laid hold of the pretty
idea, and the fraudulent cetacean has
been credited with kindly feeling
from AriOn to Said the hero of the
magic whistle"-who dimes pleas
antly en- route upon a dolphin's back.
FAll ages have contributed some
denizens TO the seattle
mythical Chilon, with mans head
the Balena and Phoca, cruel to their
mates, and the Dies, an ephemeral
fish, whose two legs and wings only
sufficed to carry his little life for
days span.
All countries, too. have invented
some fairy-like stories of the waters.
The Finnish Nakki, play their silver
harps O nights the water imp, or
Nixey. of Germany. sings and dances