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Show MORE EARTHQUAKES. And now It is Barcelona, Spain, that is shaken and shattered by an earthquake. earth-quake. The reports of the disturbance are indefinite, leaving a doubt as to whether the quako was more than a trembler, but the fact "that an eartU disturbance of any kind, will now cause' alarm, proves how nervously apprehensive are the people over this shaky earth crust. San Francisco, years ago, was regularly reg-ularly Jarred, but the Inhabitants only laughed, until the big quake of three years ago robbed those occurrences of even the Bemblance of a Joke. Now the rocking motion causes the people to halt their work and, with a hush, wait developments. Perhaps Barcelona, having read or Messina and Reggio's fate, was in a state of mind to Imagine the approach of the end of the world when the buildings build-ings were rocked, and a slight vibration vibra-tion was interpreted to mean total destruction. de-struction. Earthquakes are such uncertain things, with reserve forces bo powerful, power-ful, that were the City of Ogden to be Bhaken sufficiently to rattle the dishes, we presume the excitement would be Intense and not one, but many, would be in a state of mind bordering on hysteria. |