The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-05-21

Correspondence Baltimore sun.l

Correspondence Baltimore Sun.l
In the year of our Lord 10 Vesuvius
had an uncommon eruption, which
suddenly and very completely buried
out of sight the cities of Pom pen aud
Herculaneum; and they remained so
buried for 1000 years-untii early
In the last century, when their sights
were accidentally discovered. After
iasuch patient labor, and at an enor.
nous expense, about a third part of
these dead and buried cities ha. been
dug up, and the excavations are still
gong on. Vast treasures of gold and
silver. rare statnary, paintings and
household utensils were recovered in
good condit on, and many of these are
now preserved, as / have said. in the
National Museum ut Naples. The
paved streets have been cleared of
rubbish, and compare favorably with
those of the cities of to day. The
houses are open for inspection. AMI
one can easily gather frdm them
good idea of the manner of life among
the people who were buried into eter-
nifty with such fearful celebrity eight.
cen hundred years ago.
There isNa large museum just with
In the main gate of Pompeii, in which
are stored last mum bers of articles re-
covered from the unco vercd houses.
These are bottles, vases, plates, cups,
lamps, money-boxes, jars, door-locks,
bolts, bells, eggs, nuts. pieces OF bread,
dred fruit, glasses, towels, candle
sticks, ladies', scales, needles, Dask cts,
tunnels, etc. But among all thee
familiar things | was most impressed
with an iron safe-an actual iron safe
identical in pattern with the Noble
articles that only few years ago were
considered the best safes in the world
for banking houses and counting
rooms. And yet dozens of persons
have within fifty years taken out pat
ents for hewly.invented safes.
| raw also IA lot of fish hooks of the
identical pattern now so eagerly priced
by anglers-the veritab.e Limerick
hook. l. the world progressingf
And then there are PROSTATE figures
of men and women, skeletons of
horses, rats, cats aud dogs. And there
are many sknlls-one of them still re-
tdiuuuk 5Ohtp Va ltS AL tnCC
dreadful trophies, snatcned from The
jaws OF dra h, serve to illustrate the
terrors OF the dreadful night hen fire
and birthstone rained upon the de-
voled cities and wrapped them in the
darkness o death AMI desolat.on.
If | may judge from the pa ntings
and sculptures ON the walls of many
rooms, and from lranslations of nu-
merons in -criptions on door. posts, the
people of Pompeii we're not strictly
virtuous in every respect, for there Is
everya here evidence that they had
reached a remarkably hign or low de
gree of as " ell a luxury
Almost every house had its fountain,
it hot AMI cold bath, it spacious yard
or garden. its statnary and pictures,
and excellent culinary arrangements.
But now il is "A silent city. Its houses
are tensntless. and its = reefs are troll
den only by he fert OF curious tour
i.ts. All is de~olal ion-still beautiful
ami wonderfully at, ractive, but dead
very dead. De~pite its paintings AMI
its statues, am its glor oas sunshine.
II Was to me but "A pathetic sng estion
of woe and despa r. | would no. care
10 live in dead ci v, and il did, |
could find one nearer home.