The Ohio farmer . shock, however slight, theyflee panic-stricken. It seems as if eventhe animals were conscious of the ruinabout to occur. It has been noted thatalmest all the cats and hens felt theearthquake in advance. Only a fewdogs were found dead. After thescourge the few survivors wander fam-ished among the ruins. Tbe Calabri-an, accustomed to do for himself, be-gins the work of rescue, his fingersbleed, his garment falls in tatters, hisstomach is empty, his throat parched,but it matters not. Love of family isstrong in him. At Fittimi, the peasant,Diego Mazzitelli, drew his son out froma
The Ohio farmer . shock, however slight, theyflee panic-stricken. It seems as if eventhe animals were conscious of the ruinabout to occur. It has been noted thatalmest all the cats and hens felt theearthquake in advance. Only a fewdogs were found dead. After thescourge the few survivors wander fam-ished among the ruins. Tbe Calabri-an, accustomed to do for himself, be-gins the work of rescue, his fingersbleed, his garment falls in tatters, hisstomach is empty, his throat parched,but it matters not. Love of family isstrong in him. At Fittimi, the peasant,Diego Mazzitelli, drew his son out froma heap of ruins, then seeing that hewas dying, left him, saying: Nowwe must think of the living. And thisvaliant fellow alone saved ten per-sons, one after another, risking hislit- at every step. Not content withthis, he led the work of demolishingthe most dangerous ruins. At Par-phella a mother mourned her all,whomshe believed dead, and searched theruins for the corpse of her daughter. REGGIO DI CALABRIA (ITALY.). CALABRIAN WOMEN IN FESTAL DRESS. heart. Science in the meantime seeksto explain the phenomenon, and thepolemics in the newspapers only serveto extend their circulation among theterrorized people. From the time ofAristotles book on earthquakes, muchhas been done to solve the mystery,which, however, remains almost impen-etrable. Seneca wrote on the subject ina manner differing but slightly fromwbat might be written in our a clear, persuasive theory obtains,namely that volcanoes are great chim-neys rising from the center of theearth, where incandescent matter col-lects and cools off, forming quarriesand monutains. Are volcanoes in com-munication with the center of theearth? If it were so, would not theearth burst, like a huge shell? It istherefore believed that they average10,000 meters in depth, a small figurein comparison with the earths diame-ter. During the formation of moun-tans there are terrible upheavals suchas earthquakes. On earth the shocksare insig
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