Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-06-25
~ Brier sketch Of Pompeii.

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~ Pompeii was founded bysP ompey IL.
| hence its name. 1t was built at the foot
| Of Mount Vesuvius to catch the tourist
| traffic in lemonade, peanuts, palm lea
| fans and other articles necessary TO,
those who came to Mount Vesuvius.
One day when this frolicsome noun:
| tain was in state; of violent eruption,
like a boy taken down with the measles:
it became sick at the stomach and
threw up such quantity of ashes that
Pompeii with all it's pomp was buried
quite out of sight. A prohibition can
iidate in 4 distillery district could nod
be more completely showed under:
| Never was there such tumble in
ashes as was observed that day. They
were absolutely a drug in the market.
Folks would't cart them away as a gift.
And still ashes continued to fall
Everybody was panic stricken. They
began to wall and put on sackcloth,
but the disparity between the limited
amount of sackcloth and the illimitable
| quantity of ashes was ludicrous in the
extreme. People demanded with ashen
faces, when is this to end? But it came
to an end after while, and Pompeii
| too.
You have heard of ashes of roses?
Well, nobody ever rose from those
ashes.
For nearly eighteen hundred years
Pompeii lay asleep, and it would have
been ash-heap to this day had not some
scientific explorers come scratching
around the base of Mount Vesuyius-p
for to such base uses do they come at
last-and discovered surface indications
of the lost city. They continued dig
ging, and it was not long before the
PheniN arose from its ashes.
This was the PheniN Hotel, the most
popular IN Pompeii. The guests were
all in their rooms; although many of
them had left orders with the porter to
be called for the early morning train.
Eighteen hundred years waiting to
be called! Many hotel porters are that
way now.
The head clerk of the Phenix had
disappeared, but tl.cy found his man.
moth diamond pin, by the illumination
of which they were enabled to contin-
lie their explorations.
They kept on digging and pretty
soon they unealthcd y theatre with
whole minstrel band seated in row on
the stage. The audience were in their
seats, too, entirely pctrifcd-an end
man had gotten OF; a new joke. The
stage was thickly covered with chest
nuts, all Of which were carefully col
lected and shipped to America, where
they were eagerly bought up by the
MINISTRIES. who continue to use them,
encrusted. as they are, with the ashes
of Pompcii.
And still they dug and dug.
A newspaper Office was the next
thing that came to light. The editor
was discovered in the attitude of hold
ing up his right hand before notary,
swearing that hi; circulation exceeded
that OF all the other papers combined.
"Old Subscriber was sitting in the
editor S chair writing communication
for the wastebasket, too much absorbed
in his work to notice the fall in ashes.
veteran Observer was at another
desk preparing an article on the sub
ject of '.Strikes'' On the bulletin
board in front of the office was an an
nouncement that Susan B. Anthony
would speak that evening on the sub
ject of ''Woman's Rights"
We have not space to enumerate all
the curious things that were brought
to light by the excavations at Pompeii.
The spade revealed the ovens where
those venerable but athletic pies were
baked that now adorn so many of onr
railroad lunch counters. The genuine
have the letter P tiy blown on the crust
The number of skeletons actually
found among the askcs of Pompeii was
small when compared with the census
of the city, and this was a mystery un-
til posters were found on the dead walls
announcing lecture by ELI Perkins,
when all was explained. 1t was the
day before the fatal tempest of ashes
when these posters were discovered,
and on reading them thousands of the
panic-strickcn inha bitants broke for the
woods. and in this way their lives were
miraculously prescrved.-Tcras syt-
anys.