| Show IL A TERRIBLE YEAR THE tue disasters of this remarkable year have received an awful addition in the earthquake at dechla it Is stated elated by one authority that the calamity cannot properly proper Jy be called an earthquake thib thia may be technically correct but the results are the same the earth caved in water spouted out and several thousand persons were billed or injured the exact number has not yet been determined nehia ischia h b an island situated in the mediterranean about eight miles southwest of cape miseno it be longe longs to naples and ii 14 only seven milea long and four miles wi dewith a population of about 25 J it has a fertile soil and produces an abundance of fruits there are several mineral springs on the island and a vast tast quantity of sulphur and near its centre rises an extinct volcano to the height of about 2600 feet vesuvius about twenty miles distant shows signs of disturbance tur bance and the eruption and the earthquake may be traced to the same subterranean causes so bo far the year 1883 has contributed edmono moro more to the record of disasters by land and sea than any of its predecessors in the same earns length of time it is quite probable that the remain der of the year will bo be in keeping with its first half it was expected to be a year of tabulation and if it has not verified the prognostications of astrologers and brought forth all the horrors anticipated by persons of the grimmer stripe it has been sufficiently prolific in trouble and catastrophe cata to startle the world with such rapid repetition as aa to remind the tho believing orthe of the events predicted hy by the savior as the signs of ochia his speedy second advent thebe are the te beginning ginning of borrows sorrows and as the time of the end draws near we may rasy expect that all the calamities of the great tribulation will be experienced ha as harbingers of the coming of that kingdom which shall never perish and that glory which shall never fade away sway |
