Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1884 — An East India Version of the Flood. [ARTICLE]

An East India Version of the Flood.

In East India there is a legend that ages ago maukind became so very bad that God determined to destroy all except just enough to begin with anew. The exceptions were mostly preserved along with pairs of all sorts of animals, in a' golden palace on a mountain top. A boy and a girl, born of parents who were “neither good nor bad,” had been previous y carried off bv an angel from their respective homes on the day of their birth, and were brought up in a crvs al palace suspended in mid-air, where they were tended by a mute female figure of gold. When* they grew up they were married, and a girl was j horn to them. The destruction of the wicked having been effected by fire, the earth was thereby greatly smirched. t So giants were sent to wash it clean. They used so much water that a deluge was pr duced, and the wiliers rose so high that the golden palace and its inmates danger of being submerged.—Pittsburgh Dispatch.