"VESUVIUS IN FLAMES."

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4614, 6 January 1894, Page 3

"VESUVIUS IN FLAMES."

', One day an Englishman who bad a reai.dptit in Naples wa9 ani obarmed at tbe sight burning mountain, Tbe •'"appalling granOeur of the thing i;:.:;-intosicated him with delight. The : ;;;;'" v terrible.explosions, acoompanied us ■,v ;' they were by the promotion of huge boulders and burning hn, presented a Bceneof weird and a.'ful propor--7 tione. From that moment'be knew ' of nothing half so grand as Vesuvius • inflames. In the course of jeavs he left Italy and took up his abode in the States. One day he met an American t lio boasted very exultantly of his country. In a littlo while each !>;■'-.' fonndhimeuif trying to outpace the other in the relation of the most ; - ' wonderful thing he had witnessed. •■'".■,• The sublimesc thiog the Englishman ■ '••' y v..could remember was tbe mountain conflagration. He accordingly told it with all the imprtssiveness and ornateness of diction at Ms command. The Yankee gave a chilling smile, shrngged bis shoulders, and waited half impatiently for the end of the story, With a cynical and contemptuous air he said, " Look" here, stranger, did you ever see the falls?" " Falls; no." " Ah, I thought so," replied tbe man of the stars and stripes. " Now, my friend, you go baok to Naples, and bring Vesuvius over here, bag and baggage, rocks, thunder, lava, and all the paraphernalia of tho old spitfire, and place it under the falls, the Niagara will pour snob a volume of water into its belching mouth, that in less than a week not a scrap of fire would be left,' " Iniptaflible," the Britisher ex , billowing cascades into huge cloud I ' of steam and make another crater in I its place." After all, Vesuvius with L its fires is as nothing when compared I tu the bidden flames that bum in ft ' man, Internal shocks rend his frame. I Destroying forces continue their work Washer's "Safe" Cure, paralyses their strength, and delivers the sufferer from tin ir No matter bow emaciated or the system, Warner's repairs the shattered sysand rejuvenates tbe whole body.