Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1885 — A Find at Pompeii. [ARTICLE]

A Find at Pompeii.

One house recently uncovered at Pompeii appeared to have been undergoing repair at the time it was overtaken by the terrible volcano storm of November 23, A. D. 79. Painters’ pots and brushes and workmen’s tools were scattered around, and spots of whitewash starred wall and floor. Pots and kettles had been bundled up in a corner by themselves, but dinner had not been forgotten. A solitary pot stood on the stove. The oven was filled with loaves of bread, and a suckling pig was awaiting on a brown dish its turn to be baked. But the pig never entered the oven, and the bread remained in it eighteen 'centuries. Monsieur FlorelH’s museum at, Pompeii contains the loaves—twentyone in number—rather hard and black, but perfectly preserved. “What is it?” shrieks a sensational divine, “that puts out the lamps of human joy ?” We would timidly suggest that t ght boots can come about as near doing that same as, anything outside df top het we can call to mind. • ' & • • »..