The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-27

reach stone tomb consisting OF an
arched room about Is by go feet square,
and within small, plain slab of marble.
erected in 1910, containing Latin in
scription to the effect that it is the tomb
of Virgil
Naples has an extensive museum, in
which q whole day can DC prof1tably
spent. The paintings and statuary are
remarkably fine, but we were filled up
with those weeks ago. The most inter
esting collection to us was the articles re.
covered from Pompeii and Herculaneum,
-(Erculano in Italian). Among them
were domestic articles, Of copper or
bronze, kettles, large and small-from
the size of a half barrel down to quart
ladies, sauce pans, plates, vases fruit
baskets, needles, lamps, hanging and
movable, surgical instruments, forceps,
square and compasses and snail dividers,
locks, keys, coins, steel-yards, &C., &C.,
most of them varying but little from the
styles of the present day,-steel- yards be-
ing like those in use here at the present
time-eggs and shells, loaves of cake
from the bakers, in size and shape like
the modern, only crisped over, glass jars
and fruits and sweetmeats, the metal
parts of bedsteads, the wood being res
tore6 to show how they were anciently,
| specimens of painted walls, and mosaic
floors, IN form of birds, animals, fishes
and scenery, jewelry, consisting of pins,
rings and earrings and bracelets, ink
stands with spring cover, paper knives,
gladiatorial armor, shields, lances,
swords, helmets, iron chests for Safes and
numerous other articles many Of which
were quite as convenient as those in use
now. More than three thousand vases of
s7ery conceivable style, and highly dec
grated with figures of every conceivable
shape, some of which do not speak very
highly for the morals of people Of those
cities. There is one house into which
ladies are not admitted, nor would they
want to be, if they knew what it contain
ed and it's counterpart is to be seen IN
Pompeii, in one of the side streets.
An excursion of one day from Naples is
sufficient to visit Herculaneum, Pompeii,
and ascend Mt. Vesuvius, but it is a hard
days work and requires an early start
We take the train at six, a. M, and in
thirty or forty minutes are set down at
the gates of Pompeii where we breakfast
and then enter the excavated city-en-
trance 2 francs. Here we see the pave
ments as they were, some of them too
narrow for carriages to pass each other,
but with places for turning out. The
ruts worn in the stones by the wheels,
stepping stones for pedestrians to cross
the street, which are three and four feet
long, a foot wide, and a foot high, and a
foot and a half wide, and must have been
ve~y annoying to horses,-the wheels
passing between the stones. Some of the
| streets were in bad condition and needed
repaving. We think the descriptions of
some authors are rather overdrawn, in re-
gard to the life-like appearance of the
city, for it has the appearance of some Of
the ruins of Rome, We see the entrance
to houses, the courts or areas with marble
! fountains in the center, and sleeping
rooms around it, usually very small, and
not we'll lighted or ventilated, the walls
painted with various figures and devices,
the dining room in the rear Of the court.
We pass numerous shops of various kinds,
wine shops with earthen wine jars and
marble counters,-in one street are three
extensive wine shops adjoining contain
| ing in each nine or ten eerthen jars with
covers capable Of holding more than
barrel each, and the makers name
stamped on Them one dye house with
the Kettle still in the arch, bakeries with
their mills for grinding grain, temples,
theatres fountains in the streets and
stone watts, like those in use at the pres
ent time in Italy and Garmany,, ,tombs
and monuments with the old Roman or
Latin inscriptions still fresh and easily
read, the house of Diomedes showing him
| to be lover of good wine, having wine
cellars consisting Of arched subterranean
ways fifteen feet wide on three sides of
square, each passage being more than
I two hundred feet long, and fragments of
jars still remaining in rows along the
walls. Marble entered extensively into
use in all their buildings the same as at
Rome. Excavations are still being car
ried on, the workmen carrying out the
debris In baskets on their shoulders in
stead of wheelbarrows. Little articles
which are fnnnd are crr1arded with great