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Show A family in that aristocratic city, one ot the F. F. P.'s, perhaps, were about to dine on the rich and sucqulent dish on the very day that the restless Titan under Mount Vesuvius expectorated from his fiery lungs the shower of red hot ashes which entombed the Pompeiians in their dwellings. The pig was being cooked, and was probably nearly done at the time, when the volcanio storra burst in and spoiled it. This is not a matter of conjecture, for a mass of indurated lava and ashes has been found in a stow pan standing on a cooking stove in the kitchen of a disinterred disin-terred house, and on opening the lump a perfect mold of a suckling porker was disclosed. A cast was taken of the hollow hol-low and the result was a fac-simile in plaster of the little animal, which had been trussed in scientific style, and is supposed, from the shape of the matrix, to have been juf.i ready for the table. Chicago Herald. Pompeiians Liked Roast Pig. Tho citizens of ancient Pompeii knew what waceood. They relished roast our. |