Show william VESUVIUS 8 scientific lecture on 0 iho the great european Tol volcano cano the stud study y of the habits babits an and d temperament pe 0 of f the volcano at a distance of ot about ten th thousand saud miles is is one that has always afforded me rn much pleasure la in watching and noting the peculiar phenomena of the eruptions I 1 have almost lost eight sight of its attendant dangers A volcano is always feverish and restless till after the eruption then it feels better the first fi symptoms afan of an eruption are cold feet bad dreams bad breath and dark circles around tho the crater this will be followed by au uncomfortable feeling in the bowels of the earth and a fluttering blutt ring pulse the volcano is then about to erupt and those who livo liven near r there lad better sell oil out tat at a suc sacrifice one thousand eight hundred aud and eighty four yeara years ago the roman geographer and weather meather crank strabo spoke of vesuvius as a burnt mountain but it had not at that time turned itself wrong aide side out quite a forest grew where e its crater now stands for fifty years vesuvius had bilious spells but kept on drawing its salary without 1 loss of time but in 79 A D it turned itself loose and tore up the ground a good deal real estate was up to an astonishing height but became depressed again at once The south was jerked loose as pliny i ny has it and knocked galley west this was followed by a shower of hot wet ashes which completely complete lv obliterated pompeii and Hercula herculaneum these towns have been exhumed lately but own aug in to the criminal delay of the authorities ehg ties in doing so no lives were these cities are not covered with lava scientists say that the ruing ruins were found under a deep layer of volcanic I 1 donot do not know what is but presume the term ia is perfectly proper and safe to use in good society I 1 have heard of the tura cigars which izsold at the rate of tu f f five ive cents but I 1 am combar actively ignorant of the general appearance pe arance of volcanic tufo this is a joke that I 1 thought of myself times are so close this winter that I 1 am obliged 21 to originate a good many of my own jokes and to write my autographs my amanuensis who has stood by me so and aided me so well has been discharged autograph hunters will notice that my autographs are not good as when 1 1 I had an amanuensis 8 for nearly a thousand years vesuvius then remained in a comatose skate detate with only an occasional eruption then for years it did not erupt in 1538 on tho the shore share of the gulf of baise bait ia in the bay of naples a new and attractive crater was opened it was a good casy easy running crater and the java lava 1 was hot when it camo came out hot lava ia is not good for food it hardens in the stomach and taints the breadth with the odor of sulphur in 1631 vesuvius itself became intensely irritable and showed signs of a morbid desire to erupt during the 1500 years of qu quiet et the crater had been covered over with the wild boar of italy and the tame bore of england the slopes of the mountain were cultivated up to tho the foot of the cone coue and picnics aw warmed armed over the greensward at its base suddenly in iti the latter part of december rose on its hind bind feet and painted rome red A all 11 South southern gurol e and a apart par it of new york state was covered with ashes and debris from the tha eternal economy odthe of the volcano many people were killed who had lied previously lost their lives the way vesuvius slung hot mud at the Wea neapolitan politan hordes that fall was a solemn warning to the we puny ML rd pushes of putrid politic politico in the land of the free and the home of the brave the beautiful cities 1 1 0 of f and abd portici were were c entirely destroyed and those of torre del da greco and torre torro dell annunziata would have perished if they bad had not spread the names of the towns over themselves them solves and escaped A good long name in italy is rather to be chosen than great riches about every ten years since tho the above date vesuvius has been liable to jar tho the country and shake down a few towns covering the people with stuff that is entirely us useless eless the eruption of vesuvius isa fino fine sight at night no doubt but thero there will always bo be more 0 or 1 r less apprehension on the part of spectators until some american 1 rustier rustler puts a damper on oft tho the crater of vesuvius so that he can re regulate the eruption at present these spasms are too irregular and too vehement |