Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1916 — RELICS OF ROMAN LONDON [ARTICLE]

RELICS OF ROMAN LONDON

Interesting Discoveries Made When for Any Purpose the Soil Is Dug Into at Some Depth. Roman London lies buried about eighteen feet below the level of Cheapside. In nearly all parts of the city there have been discovered tessellated pavements, Roman tombs, lamps, vases, sandals, keys, ornaments, weapons, coins and statues of the Roman gods. When, a little over a century ago, deep sections were made for the sewers in Lombard street, the lowest stratum was found to consist of tessellated pavements. Many colored dice were found lying scattered about, and above this stratum was a thick layer of wood ashes, suggesting the debris of charred wooden buildings. While building the Exchange workmen came upon a gravel-pit full of oyster shells, bones of cattle, old sandals and shattered pottery. Two pavements were dug up under the French church in Threadneedle street, and other pavements have been cut through in several parts of the city. The soil seems to have risen over Roman London at the rate of nearly a foot a century. Still further must the searcher dig to find the third London, the earlier London of the Britons. Kitten Saves Girl’s Life. Out in California a kitten saved a little twelve-year-old girl from probable death. The girl and the kitten went for a walk. After a short time the kitten returned alone and kept walking up and down in front of the -girl’s mother crying pitifully. It was trying to attract the attention of the mother, and every time it thought it succeeded it w>uld walk off and. not seeing the mother follow, would .return and cry all the harder. Finally the mother noticed the performance and decided to follow the little creature the next time it repeated the affair, as she thought it strange it should act so. The kitten led the way to the end of a recreation pier, where the child was found hanging head downward from a large spike in a pile. She had fallen from the pier and her clothing had caught on the spike. Her mother immediately rescued her, but she was barely conscious. Had she remained in that position five minutes longer she would have been dead.-—Our Dumb Animals, ....