Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-02-08

much certainty then as 10 does now.
Paul must have been familiar with the
compass, for we are told that he
"fetched compass" We are not told,
however, where he feched it from, or
why he hadn't IL on board when he
started.
In the time OF Homer it was regarded
as great exploit to make a short sea
voyage. The expedition OF Jason was
lost in dense black fog which had
blown over from London. Jason, it
will be remembered. went after the gold
en- fleece and got it; but nowadays men
go overland to Wall street to get fieeced
The voyagers prayed Justify to Apollo
to yank them out of the fog. He was
too dlgnified to do that, and so he got
astraddle of rock and lighted them
to an island with the brightness OF his
bow. This little incident subsequently
suggested the lighting of New, York
harbor by the Goddess of Liberty.
When Flock, the famous Norwegian
navigator, sailed from Shetland to
Gardarsholm (now lceland) he took on
board three or four crows, which he
liberated at intervals, only to see them
return to the ship. Finally one OF them
saw land ahead. 1t flew thither, and
Flock followed it, and crows go about
in flocks ever since. Arngrim Jonas
tells us this story, and the mere fact
that he isn't here TO verify it restraints
us from intimating that he revamped
it from the account of the dove and the
ark.
In S74 Ingolf, another Norwegian
adventurer, sailed for Iceland. In
order to carry out superstition OF the
country he threw overheard wooden
god, hoping TO land on the coast width
err it guided him. But the wooden god
wooden oblige him, and was swept out
of sight by the current. Ingolf swore
furiously in Norwegian, for which
reason it no doubt wasn't written up
against him, and landed on that part of
the island which still bears his name.
The ancient coins Phocea have
picture of seal upon them, commemor-
ative OF the leading event in the his
tory of the colony. The ships, having
no other guide, followed a shoal Of
seals. The emigrants reached the
coast and founded Phocna or Seal
town. The first industry which they
established was the manufacture OF
sealskin sacques, thus becoming re-
sponsible for a great deal of our
modern domestic infelicity.
Aristophanes tells US, in a couplet,
that the Greek mariners derived omens
| from the birds;
| "From birds in sailing men instruction take;
| Now lie in port, now sail, and profit Make
Tbs learned author might have add
ed that men lie considerably when not
| in port, and that the fuller OF port they
are the more they lie. 1t was regarded
! by sailors as bad omen to see but one
magpie on the coast; but if they saw
| two they would at once set sail. The
magpie may be a gad-about, but she
/ has more common sense to the square
inch than the crow, the seal or the
wooden god to which reference has been
made. She isn't going TO trail her
skirts through the mud or have the
feathers on her bonnet put out of curl
by storm. She prefers to attend to
her incubating and other homework,
while her husband puts on his oilskin
coat and arctics and hustels around for
food for both Of them. When the air
is warm they take a promenade togeth-
err. pretty sure that the eggs will not
be chilled during the interval. Any
how. Sir Davy Humphrey explains it
in that way, and Davy had notable
head Detroit Free Press.