The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-04-29

one supposed to be his, with Key III HIS
hand, serpent ring on his finger and
hundred gold and silver coins at his side,
the other probably his slave, was stretched
on the ground beside some silver vases.
We PISSED through the house of Diomed
and verified that which reads like fiction
in Bulwer's great work. Considering
how negligent the present Italians are
in regard to personal cleanliness-in
many respects what are called the idle
not the working classes, remind one Of
the ilthiness Of the Indians who gather
around the ears on the Rocky Mountains
the baths of Pompeii read like rebuke
10 the foul multitude. Our guide took
Us into the space which 1000 years ago
was devoted to hot and cold baths; it &C.
cupied four streets, with q breadth of
l62 feet, and depth of 10 feet. There
was chamber for undressing, one for
the cold bath with large marble basin,
surrounded with marble lodges, l4t feet
in diameter; another for the hot bath, SO
feet in length, another for the hOt-air
bath, 50 feet long, heated by hot iron
pipes, and the whole chambers beauti-
fully frescoed and adorned with marble
figures. These people not only bathed
themselves repeatedly during the day,
but they were pcrtumed aterward, and
oiled all over. They were auointed by
slaves from large vialS of gold, alabaster
and crystal. The unguents thus used
were collected from all parts Of the
world. Considering again that the
Pompeiians and Romans were bathGd
and anointed as many AS seven times Il
day, do not think their general posterity
purify themselves rs often in whole
year.
Nearly opposite the baths We visited
the house ofthe tragic poet, very large
and imposing, also beautifully described
by BuIwcr as the house Of Claucus, the
Greek lover of lone. The exquisite rep
resentations on the walls, and other fine
paintings. have been ordered by the
government to the Neapoitan museum,
where We saw the originals, and watched
the local artist making very faithful
copies. Our guide then took US to the
house Of Pansa, one OF the largest IN
Pompeii-32li feet long and l24 feet
wide; on the threshold was II Mosaic
flooring with the word "Salva' or wei
come. 1t WAS II palatial residence, COM
plrte in all appointments, irescoed, with
marble forms, bronzes, and Mosaic foun-
tuius with gaping heads of monsters on
both sides, in which the lamps were
placed to light the falling waters. The
great mansion comprised sixteen shops
and dwellings. facing the different streets.
But | can not follow in detail this three
or four hours walk. Here was u bake
house with the mills for grinding and
ovens for baking the grain. We after
wards saw the loaves burned black. ana
various Kinds Of corn and fruit as they
were found. Here was the house of the
Surgeon proved from the fact that num-
Der Of surgical instruments were discover
cd there. Again species OF custom
hoasc. where weights and measures were
found. one of them stamped IN the capt
itol ut Rome Then spacious tavern,
with two wine tables and an entrance
for wagons. Now we were carried to
the street of the Tombs, where the dead
were buried, like the Romans on the
Nppiau Way, among thCm that Of Cicero,
who had u villa near PompclI. This Is
fullcr's establishment, with chambers for
the workmcn in cloths, and this IT very
small barher-shop, with seats for the GUS
TONERS. The House of the Farm, said
To- be- the hundsumrst in Pompcii, $50 feet
long. l2G feet broad, discovered in 1880,
in the presence of the son of Goethe, de-
riyes lis name from the bronze statue
found in the centre of the court, and we
afterwards saw it in the museum
AT Naples. Hero also was the
celebrated Mosaic of the battle of
Alexandria, also placed in the Naples
Museum. \ soap mandatory at the
corner of tins street attracts attention.
Another bake house and II number of
corn mills and an oven in which 81 loayeS
of burned dread We're found. The house
of Marcus LuCretius, once magnlilcentIy
fitted up, identified as his BY papyrus
writing. More public bath houses, more
temples to the gods more irescoes and
statues. and fountains, the former TRAN
gular. with a hundred columns OF the
Doric order. two thcat"rs, and glad.a-
tors barracks, in which siXty-thrcc skele-
tons were found The last object We saw
WAS the AlnHNllH"hlcT' aCIo'HHlOuoI''
twenty thousand spectators.
The workmen were busy in new exca-
yations, and made quite picture, as they
dug ND the historic earth and carried 1t
away over the hills. We descended into
the pit lust as they were uncovering Il
beautiful chamber, after having cleared
hall with fountain and emblematic statue.
II proved to be the establishment of a
cloth-maker. Ohc of the customs here is
to honor genius or courage by special
excavation. Such tribute was paid to
Generals Sherman and Sheridan when
they visited Naples lately and new and
then Il king or queen Is similarly comph-
mented. Hon George w. Woodward,
late Chief Justice of Pennsylvania in his
recent visit to Pompcii, was 50 captivatcd
that he literally campcd on the ground,
having slept all hight at the Hotel
Diomede, that ne might rise early the
next dav to resume a far more profitable
work than treaties on constitutional law
or an elaborate opinion from the Supreme
bench