The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-01

and though it was overdone having remained in
the oven about l, 700 years still, if you were to
see one of those loaves in the street you woald
say it was once bread. There is a building
which was bank, and the banker, instead of
putting his sign over the door. had it put in
mosaic in the floor of the vestibuie. And
there the words now, Just as
distinct as when Cicero went there
The words are ''salve lucrum'-save your mon
ey. There are the basins in which the fountains
played. Just at the surface of the ground Is the
lead pipe which carried water to them mere
are frescoes on the walls, some OF them oeautlIui
now, and all of them aiding to bring up vivid
images of Roman life as it was when Jesus was
upon the earth. You turn street corner just
as those old Romans did, and you almost expect
to meet some of them as you turn.
now where trade hummed then, and
the traveller and his guide and the lizards that
run about the walls Pompeii is as lfeless now
as when it first sunk into its hot and ashy tomb.
Most Of the treasures discovered there are in
various museums, especially in that of Naples,
and it Is surprising to find how many Of the
articles In common use among US now were in
common use then. There are fat-irons steel
gards, fishing hooks, dividers and water
faucets. For the use of physicians,
there are speculums and probes, catheters
and the trephine, scissors, forceps of
many forms, and elevators for operations upon
the skull. There, too, the plane and adze of
the carpenter, and the pick-ax of the laborer.
There are double and single bits for horses,
buckles, spurs. cowbells and KEYS of compli-
Gated make, and there are hinges for doors
The presence Of fine tooth combs also shows that
the war against parasites is about as old as the
war against sin. Powder boxes for the toilet
show that the Pompeiian ladies studied the art
of personal adornment even to the ex-
tent OF powdering the face. How human nature
holds its own! The Pompeiian boys
amused themselves as boys do yet, in marking
up the walls Of buildings, and the testimony
that remains shows that some of them did not
know how to spell.
The concluding part of the doctors lecture de-
scribed his ascent and descent Of Mt. Vesuvius,
in company with four other gentlemen, guides,
and promiseuous assortment of Italians who
were on hand to turn the thrifty scudo. This
part of the lecture was quite humorous All
was good, as the applause at the conclusion tes-
tilted
At 8 P. NJ. joseph Carhart, professor of elocu-
ton at DePauw University, gave a delightful
entertainment of humorous and dramatic read
lngs, the different numbers being received with
great appreciation, manifested in we'll timed
applause The readings were lnterspersed with
songs by the indianapolis G1ee Club, which, at
each song, evoked enthusiastic and prolonged
hand clapping. One of Professor Carharts
readings was that of the man who
wanted to see the editor who had put
into the paper the prescription of how to sober
drunken man by pouring water down his back.
The concluding explanation of the editor to the
badly disfgured man who had tried the remedy
upon drunken subject, that "the man who
wrote that piece has gone to Alaska to remain
until the civil service rules shall have proved
entirely successful in the Indianapolis postoffice."
palpabe hit, and fairly brought down the
house
This afternoon Rev. George w. Pepper of
Ohio, will speak ON ireland and the Irish" Rev.
Sidney Deans paper on MANS Immortality"
will be read by Colonel Cumback in the evening.