Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1883 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Brief Sketches of Mythology* MERCURY. Murcury was the son and messenger of Jupiter. He presided over whatever required skill, or dexterity, and, also, Over commerce and stealing; which accounts, to some extent, for “The tricks of trade.” Murcary was possessed of a cap and shoes armed with wings; and when Jupiter called himto go to the release of 10, he donned his cap and shoes, took his syrinx, and flew to Argus, expecting to play him to sleep. But Argus slept with two eyes open, and, looking at Murcury’s winged feet, exclaimed; “Shoe?fly don’t bodder me.” With talk and music, however, Murcury lulled Argus to sleep, cut off his head, and released 10, as “herein-before-stated”. Juno took the 100 eyes of Argus and put them on the tail of her favorite bird, the peacock. Murcury was, also, inventor of the Lyre. Wandering one day by the seashore. he found a tortoise shell, across which he stretched kome strings forming it into a musical instrument, which he presented to Apollo, Appollo was then considered the “boss lyre-(ist). But that was in ancient times, my friends, in ancient times. Rensselaer, a city of modern renown, now the “Boss-liar”, and he does riot sell Boots and Shoes two doors from the P. 0., either! Oh no! He does business further down the street. >