Show RELICS memorial of the fated cur 0 I 1 compell in the museum at are pre tweed the most horrid and pathetic rellna of the baat day of the fated early in 1863 the workmen who wore helping to unearth nn struck into a cavity in the lava the nature of which of course wa a without breaking further into it they poured platter of parla down the that were already opened and as eoon oa the plaster bad hardened the crust of lava haq carefully removed and lo 10 tho form of a human being in his last Bt ruggles was revealed the outlines and form of the person were perfectly preserved showing plainly that he had been bur led tn boiling lava which had hard ened about him the intervening 1800 yeara and the beat of the lava besides had reduced the body to a of dust but the laa had left a cast natural as life since that time beveral bodies have been reproduced one of them with tho features BO perfectly preserved as to show the expression of the ace in some of the plaster casts parta of the skeleton arc Im bedded two female casts which are clasped in each other s arms have been called the mother and daughter persons who hava been group my that there Is noth ing in oil roni pell more touching than tho utter despair depicted upon tho face of the mother |