Show volcanic portents the naples gazette enumerates some dozen villages in southern calabria whose inhabitants are camping in the open air alarmed by the report that the earthquake fissures of the adjacent highlands are beginning to emit curls of smoke in the earthquake regions of venezuela the sudden destruction of hot springs is considered an equally evil omen and the superintendent of the observatory of san salvador speaks of a peculiar hazy appearance of the atmosphere on the eve of a volcano eruption subterranean noises leave occasionally preceded an earthquake but can by no means be considered an infallible symptom since the terrific rumblings gs known as the de guana juato described as resembling peals of heavy ordnance continued for six weeks and after all were followed by no worse results than the fall of a few beall rock avalanches from a steep mountain slope |