Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1878 — The Dardanelles. [ARTICLE]

The Dardanelles.

The Dardanelles, toward which so much attention is now . directed, fairly teems with historic and poetic memories. Its navigation wak fir|toitfeinDted by the Argonauts under Jasof, in their search for the Golden Fleece. At Abydos, Xerxes built his famous bridge of boats for the invasion of Greece, and it was here that the loves of Hero and Leander became world-renowned. Leander, who lived at Abydos, on the Asiatio shore, was in love xvith Hero, the beautiful priestess of Venus, at Sestos, and regularly swam the strait to meet his mistress. One dark and stormy night he failed to appear, and when the luckless Hero visited the shore the next morning the waves had washed the dead body of her lover upon the sands. Overcome by her loss, she plunged into the sea, and the spot became ever after sacred to their memory. On the 3d of March, 1810, Lord Byron swam the Dardanelles at the same point in seventy minutes. He was accompanied by Lieut. Akenhead, whose name has been handed down to posterity in the line: Which Leander, Mr. Akcnhead, and I did. The swim froip Abydcs to Sestos is still repeated yearly by Byron-inspired tourists, and will probably continue to be as long as the glamour of poetry and tradition hangs around the spot.— New York Sun.

A dog bill introduced into the Connecticut Legislature requires all dogs to be muzzled when away from the premi - ses of their owners, anti to be taxed $5 for every male and $lO for every female. Any person may kill an unmuzzled dog found at large, and receive out of the town treasury $2, but any person found removing muzzle must pay a fine of SlO, and any person killing a muzzled dog a fine of $25.