Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-24

| is some bread-do you read the bakers
name followed out of that carbonized
pancake take and break it. Open
that cupboard you will find there pre-
served olives, dried figs, lintels and eat
ables of all descriptions. A saucepan
has been carried to the Naples Muse
um, containing piece of meat, as well
preserved as by Mr.. Appert's process.
What number Of meals Vesuvus in
terrupted on that day
nevertheless, do not think that the
Romans were great eaters. ! have
carefully explored number of kitch-
ems and dining rooms at Pompeii, and |
have found, but very trifling cooking
apparatus, and miniature table utensils.
Their plates were real saucers, and the
tables upon which the dinner was SER
we'd up, but little stands, in general of
stone or marble, which could hold but
one dish at a time. The guests lay
down as soldiers round their mess
What is admirable, delightful, charm
ing, overwhelming, to us barbarians of
the nineteenth century, is the exquisite
pureness and delicacy of shape of all the
utensils which served the Romans in
domestic life. One must see those cam
delabras, lamps, vases of all sizes, those
charming little bronze calefactors, Qor
every thing was of bronze,) those tri>
pods, scales, beds, chairs, those grace
ful and so ingeniously wrought shields
which fill up whole rooms at he Naples
Museum. One must, above all, see the
toilet arsenal of the Roman ladies /;
their combs, tooth picks, curling irons,
and the pots of vegetable and mineral
rouge found in a boudoir Thus the
Roman ladies used rouge. and deceived
the people just as is practised now a.
days; they wore, like our ladies, those
necklaces, rings and ridiculous ear
rings, which add nothing to beauty and
diminish not ugliness. How times re-
semble one another, in spite of the space
that separates them.
Above thirty streets of Pompeii are
now restored to light; it is third part
of the town. The walls which formed
its ancient enclosure have been recog-
nized: a magnificent amphitheatre, a
theatre, forum, the temple Of Isis, tia,
of Venus, and a number of other build
ings, have been cleared. The secret
stairs by which the priests of those
times silly crept to prompt the oraces
have been detected. On beholding SC
many monuments which display in SC
lively manner the Importance of pub
lie. and the independence private life
among the Romans, it is impossible te
resist feeling of sadness and melan
choly. Behold, along the fall of earth
the vestige of the breast of a woman
who was buried alive, and stiffened by
death-behold the stones of that wall
worn by the rubbing of the ropes-ex
anime that guardhouse, coverered will
caricaturcs Of soldiers-one might sup
pose that the Roman people still existed
and that we were but strangers in ont
of their towns. Who knows what fu
ture discoveries may be made in thos'
august ruins! Murat employed upol
them 200 men every year. Only 81
men and fl.O0O are now employees
upon them. The excavations proceed
in consequence, with dismal slowness
however great may be the interes
which his Sicilian Majesty takes i
their success. Ii is not in Rome-de
vastated and disfgured Rome, that on
must 90 TO study the Romans-t is i
Pompeii. Pompeii, as regards antiqui
ties, is worth all Italy together.