The Arizona Sentinel

The unearthing of Pompeii is still going forward, promising much for the future. There was recently discovered the body of a woman who had fallen clutching a bag of gold. The hardened ashes became a mould of the victim. And in this case the crust did not break. Into the cavity plaster-of-paris was poured. The result was a perfect cast of a woman as she died, gripping her bag of ninety pieces of gold, two silver vases, some jewels and keys. Hurrying along the street she had tripped and fallen on her side. Her arm is raised and twisted. Her hand, beautifully formed, is clutched in despair, the nails entering the skin. The head dress, face, tissue of garments, and rings on her fingers are reproduced exactly.

A correspondent says that the Pompeiians were evidently given up to pleasure, and that theirs was a life of the senses. Even now, he says, when the city has been buried eighteen hundred years, one is startled by an air of gaiety etglingsbo it. Doubtless it had its philosophers, but they do not appear. What may yet be revealed regarding this city is beyond conjecture.