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Show VESTjvrus ebtjption pbofits. Vesuvius, with its eruption, has done more than provide magnificent fireworks fire-works to attract the foreigners; it has set four communes ltesina, Torre del Greco, Boscotrecase, and Ottaiano by the ears. It seems that each claims that the volcano stands within its confines, con-fines, 1f not all, the greater part of it, and that it (the commune) can thus claim the taxes of the guides, Cook"s railway and the one hundred and one other things which yield money. The quarrel is a pretty one. and bids fair to be unending, as no sooner have the confines been established and a comparative, com-parative, if discontented peace, patched .up, than the volcano belches forth new lava, forms new hills and valleys and obliterates the confines. . Since the late eruption feeling has risen ris-en to such height that the people of one commune throw stones at those of the others, and refuse to speak as they pass by. Each declares that it has ancient an-cient documents to prove its rights beyond be-yond dispute, but when the moment comes for exhibiting them they somehow some-how have misplaced them. They would have been the most useful to the council coun-cil of State, to whom they have ap- pealed, but they cannot be found. Meanwhile, Mean-while, until the quarrel Is settled, Resl-na Resl-na has decidedly the best of it, as. while the others were terror-stricken, she boldly fixed her confines by herself taking in the whole mountain. Pall Mall Gaxette. |