The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-31
q 1AE sALT LAKE HERALD. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 81 1898

news had a certain resemblance to the
day.
On the walls of the Regia, in the
forum, where the supreme pontiff
dwelt, ach year a carefully whitened
board was hung, which was called an
album. AT the top of it the names of
the consuls and magistrates of the
year We're inscribed, and whenever
ANY NOTEWORTHY EVENT
happened in Rome or in the provinces
this was announced in the fewest pos
sible words on the album at the Regia-
The citizens, passing by night, read as
they ran
Once a week the peasants from the
n~eighboring owns came into the city
as their descendants come still every
Sunday to the Piazza Montanara-to
learn the events of the past week from
the record hung up in the forum Sew
eral among them, notes Bossier, had
their sons in the army; all we're deep
~ concerned in the affairs Of their
country; it pleased them to learn that
all went well with the legions abroad;
that the city besieged mad been taken,
and that he enemy's army a been
put to fight.
The album remained on the Regia
during the whole year. It "a then de-
tached and placed in the archives of
the state; it recorded in brief the
events of the year. 1t was placed with
the records of other years, and the
whole was published under the title of
"Annales Maximi." This was the be-
ginning of Roman historyi
The Roman journal did not always
reach to the dignity of history. A hint
of its nature is conveyed to us in the
pages of Petronius Arbiter in his ac-
count of Trimalchion.
There was read to ~Trimalchion the
ordinances of the ediles, and such like.
1t was related why the majordomo
was exiled to Balae; how. the treasurer
was convicted of m-alyersation. The
anne day there was a fire in the gar
den of Pompeii, which fire began in
the farmers dwelling. On this day also
the slave Mithridates was put to death
on a cross for having spoken i'll of the
genius of our MASTER" that is to say,
the emperor.
THE JOURNALS OF ROME
consisted of isolated facts, of scandals
and of lawsuits in great abundance.
Their modeTn successor, Vox Urbis,
errs IN the other side, that is to say,
by the scantiness of it's news and goS-
sip.
1t is something novel to heal adver-
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omme genus Indications, &C." II a
price put upon them. They also appear
in g~ood-sounding Latin.
For these there are many examples
to be found in the ~disinterred city of
Pompeii, whose walls may be said to
have been vocal with advertisements
Of all kinds in the Latin period. There
was nothing too noble or too little to
escape advertising.
Hotels were advertised, as when Sit
thus announced that he had restored
the Elephant hotel, and added hat a
triclinium with three beds or places
was to be had, with other convent
enceS; "Hospftum hic locatur Triclin-
ium cum tribus lectis ct comm"
The coming of gladiators and the per-
formances they would give, as an
nounced on the playbills of the time,
must nave futtered the hearts of ad-
nlirers of athletics and amateurs of the
prize ring.
Many of these have been read and
copied in the streets Of the resurrected
Pompeii, and they are more valuable
than learned treatises to inform US of
the true i~nwardness of life in the an
cient Roman empire.
In the new venture all such stirring
advertisements will be carefully avoid
ed; books on history or on matters
connected with theology form the bulk
of the advertisements.
1t is perhaps premature to predict for
how long the Vox Urbis will re-echo
amid the Seven Hills; at present it is
novel and interesting.