Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 9 January 1895 — Page 4

Lady Colin Campbell, who for some •••years was on the staff of the London World, is about to start a paper, The .Realm, on her own account and will be its publisher and editor.

Hassan Ali, the Egyptian giant now on exhibition in Berlin and exciting the interest, of Professor Virehow and .-other anthropologists, is only 1(! years old, but is already almost 7 feet 9 inches in height.

Ruskin, a correspondent who recentty saw liim at Brantwood saj\s, is not tho feeble old man he has been represented in recent reports. He walks briskly and shows little evidence of feeling his •weight of 75 years.

General Count von Heseler of the German army is a stern old soldier and a strict disciplinarian. He has been •known to stop a subordinate in the street and make liim remove his boots and stockings to see if his feet were clean.

Mrs. Oscar Wilde, when Browning •was calling on her at one of her Sunday afternoons, asked him to write something in her autograph album, wherein many famous people had written. "With pleasure," said Browning, and wrote, "From a poet to a poem."

Captain Ilornfrey, a retired officer of the Eleventh hussars, who, after stirring experiences in tho British army, fought in tho war of the rebellion and tinder Garibaldi, being wounded in battle six times, met an inglorious death in London tho other day, being run over by a butcher's cart.

Few people know perhaps that Mrs. Thomas A. Edison can with truth and propriety bo addressed as "countess." At any rate, her husband had tho title of count conferred upon him by appreciative French friends—a title for which, by tho way, he says ho has littlo use, although duly grateful for tho honor.

HYMNS AND HYMN WRITERS.

"Awake, my soul, to joyful lays" .was written by Samuel Medley in 1787. "Let us with a gladsomo mind" was written by John Milton when only 15 years old. "Of him who did salvation bring" was translated by A. W. Boehm from the Latin of St. Bernard.

The Woman's Era.

Within Her Sphere She Reigns Supreme.

'Woman claims her own Her field widens constantly. Every day brightens her prospects Her progress foreshadows the greater triumph at hand. Emancipation and -equality will be hers in the years to come.

Prophetic of final victory were her achievements at the World's Fair. At her shrine there erected the nations bowed. The lesson taught at the "Woman's Building" will last "till time shall be no more." Their enlightening influence will be felt around the globe throughout the dawning century.

Only less memorable were the honors gained at the Fair by

Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder

The highest award conferred on this peerless preparation, is a fitting accompaniment of the laurels won by the women of America.

PERSONAL GOSSIP.

The Rev. Hugh Price Hughes of England was only 1 I years old wln ho addressed a public meeting from the pulpi t.

Dr. Conan Doyle managed to pick up •$12,000 in Irs nine weeks' experience •tot this oou:itry. And this is one reason why he likes it so much.

Sir Julian Pauneefoto has been mado a member of the queen's privy council and will be entitled to precede his name with the words, "Right Honorable."

"O Jesus, light of all below," was translated by Edward Caswell from St. Bernard's hymn, "Jesu Dulcis Memoria.'' "Joy to the world" was by Isaac Watts. It has been popularized by being set to a fragment of melody from Handel's "Messiah. "Brightest and best of the sons of the morning" was written by Reginald Hebcr and first published in Tho Christian Observer ir. 1811. "Hark, the glad sound," is regarded as the masterpiece of Philip Doddridge. It was written by him to be sung at the close of a Christmas service in 1785 "If human kindness meets return" is by Gerard T. Noel. It originally appeared in a volume of travels by tho author entitled, "Sketches In Italy and Switzerland," published in 1812. "O love divine that stooped to share" was by Oliver Wendell Holmes and lirst appeared in one of tho series of papers entitled "Tho Professor at the Breakfast Table, published in The Atlantic Monthly for November, 1859. ''Jesus, accept the praise," is by Charles Wesley. It is often used by all branches of Methodists at tho closo of the annual conferences. Two other hymns are also used on this occasion— "Blest bo tho dear, uniting love," and "And let our bodies part. "—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. §iif

THE FASHION PLATE.

The principal feature of gowns for day wear is the soft fur trimmings with which they are embellished.

Very pretty use is now made of perforated broadcloth. It is utilized in tho creation of capes, both short and long.

Tho new dress skirt is rounded in a manner so as to fall in long straight folds, with littlo or no fullness on tho liips.

Velvet ribbon in enormous quantities and in a variety of colorings and rich effects will bo used for decorating spring gowns for both day and evening wear.

Soft russet buckskin vests, collars and muffs, embroidered and fur edged and worn en suite, with cloth and velvet dresses, are among tho fancies of the winter season.

The "Bengalino Lansdowno, which will be placed upon tho market next season, resembles tho all silk bengalino so long popular, except that tho cord in tho now makes is not so pronounced.

Samplo cards of spring goods show, among other attractive materials, "Persian suitings," that in appearanco aro similar to tho high priced checked chovits and silk and wool novelty fabrics from foreign looms. "Silk warp Trilby" is tho name of a very pretty material to be used for next soasons streot and travoling costumes. It is in Jacquard effects, and in evening colors tho tints aro as dolicate and handfiomo as silks costing nearly double tho prico.—Now York Post.

EUGENE FIELD INTERVIEWED.

That Is, He Fired Talk For Nine Minutes at a Reporter. Eugene Field, the humorous poet, famous for his beautiful children's verse, I was told, had just come in from Chicago and would be at tho Authors' club that night. I reached the Authors' club about 10 o'clock and learned that Field had gone. "Whore?" «. "To Washington. "What train-'" "Eleven o'clock.

I was in Jersey City and in that train at 10:50. "Whip out your notebook and write for all you're, worth," said Mr. Field, throwing lumself and his bag in the seat. You've only nine minutes. Time enough, though, for two uneventful biographies like mine. "Never mind that. You're fond of tho quaint and curious, Mr. Field. What'r' your fads, pets and so on?" "Well, listen for your life now. I'm fond of dogs, birds and all small pets. My favorite flower is tho carnation. My favorites in fiction are Hawthorne's 'Scarlet Letter,' 'Don Quixote' and'Pilgrim's Progress.' I believe in ghosts, in witches and in fairies. I should like to own a big astronomical telescope and a 24 tune music box. I adore dolls. I dislike 'politics,' so called. I should like to have the privilege of voting extended to women. I am unalterably opposed to capital punishment. I favor a system of pensions for noblo services in literature, art, science, etc. I approve of compulsory education. I believe in churches and schools. I hate wars, armies, soldiers, guns and firoworks. I do not care particularly for sculpture or for painting. I try not to becomo interested in them, for the reason that if I were to cultivato a taste for them I should presently become hopelessly bankrupt. I dislike all exercises, and I play games very indifferently. I love to read in bed. I am extravagantly fond of perfumes. My favorite color is red. I am a poor diner, and I drink no wines or spirits of any kind, nor do I smoke tobacco. I dislike crowds, and I abominate functions. I am feet in height and have shocking taste in dress, but I like to have well dressed people about me. I do not love all children. I have tried to analyzo my feelings toward children, and I think I discover that I love them in so far as I can make pe^s of them. I believe that, if I live, I shall do my best literary work when I am a grandfather." "And how did you become a humorist, Mr. Field?" I asked, while tho porter besought mo with tears in his eyes to leavo the train before it started. "Oh, they're not made. They're born. "All aboard!" And Eugene Field was gone.—Demorest's Magazine.

Missouri 40,000 Years Hence. According to tho engineers of the hydrographic bureau, the level of the gulf of Mexico is one foot higher than it was in 1859, and, of course, the encroachment on the surrounding coasts has been greater or less, pending on their character. In some places, where the marginal lands are composed of high, rocky bluffs, this change of level has gone on from year to year without attracting attention. On the other hand, many low lying points (some that were once inhabited by the primitive inhabitants or by the pioneer white settlers), are entirely submerged. The cause of this change of level has not as yet been ascertained, but it is reasonably certain that it is the result of either a settling of tho dry land or of a general and uniform rising or upheaval in the gulf bed. No man who has given the matter a moment's thought will argue that there is more water in tho gulf now than there was 35 years ago. On tho contrary, there isn't the least doubt but that there is much less. However this may be, if this aqueous encroachment is steadily maintained, Keokuk will bo a deep water harbor and St. Louis and the whole of Missouri will bo entirely submerged in less than 40,000 years from Jan. 1, 1895.—St. Louis Republic.

On Reading.

To sit down in a chair without an object is to jump into a thicket of temptations. A vacant hour is always the devil's hour. When time hangs heavy, the wings of tho spirit flap heavily and slow. Then it is that a book is a strong tower, nay, a vory church, with angels lurking among the leaves as if they were so many niches. Reading holps to make conversation harmless, by making it less petty and censorious, by furnishing us with other topics than our neighbors' faults and foibles. It is very hard for a person who does not like reading to talk much in company without sinning. Furthermore, a taste for reading often hinders our taking the wrong side in practical questions which are mooted in the world, but bear upon tho church. It does this either by tho information it has enabled us to obtain on the subject itself, or by making our instincts accurate and sonsitivo through our familiarity with right principles.—Faber.

Hotli Wicked.

"My husband, said tho largo, fleshy lady, "has a habit of marking paragraphs in the paper that say mean things about women." "So you will not fail to see them, eh? Still that is not as mean a trick as mino plays. He cuts them all out. Then I havo to get another paper only to find that I have been fooled again." —Indianapolis Journal.

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Servant—I carelessly dropped one of the biscuits you made yesterday on it —Woonsockot (R. I.) Reporter.

Grains of wheat have been found in tho sun dried bricks ,of Egypt and Nineveh, dating from at loast B. C. 3300.

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THE SUNSET LEDGE.

ITS STORY AS TOLD BY THE OLD CALIFORNIA MINER.

The Two Contractors Wlio Refused to Heed a Timely Warning—Fifteen Years After a ISlast Released a Fair of Grinning Skeletons. 'i

In Butte county there is a quartz

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6haft and buildings ^remains. The ledge £or

was discovered away back in tho early days, when quartz first attracted the notice of prospoctors when many worthless ledges wero worked because the miners had not yet learned how to read the value of such ore by tho minerals in it, its location, dip and contact with other formations. The Sunset lodge was 1 small, flinty and absolutely worthless, but the men who discovered it thought it worth development. They put down I a shaft 100 feet in depth in wet and I treacherous ground, and they used 110 timbers. Then they let a contract to two men—a Cornish man and an Irish

man—to construct a tunnel 100 feet in length-from tho bottom. Sometimes untimbered ground will stand apparently firm and salo for a time, and then, witli 110 perceptibio cause, suddenly get shaky and fall or close in. This was just what occurred at the Sunset miue. The two men in the tunnel had almost finished their contract and were "squaring up tho face" of the tunnol when one of tho men employed on the surface was lowered rapidly, ran to them and told them to leavo the mino instantly because tho shaft was closing in.

Why tho men refused, in tho face of I a certain horrible death, to hoed tho warning is a mystery. Tho messenger begged and threatened, but they were obdurate. They laughed at him, told him to sit down and smoke a pipo with them and said they wcftild leave the tunnel only when they had "finished her up in shapo. Perhaps they imag-

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ined tho man was playing a joke upon them or that it was a scheme to get tlioni to leavo tho luino before their contract was fulfilled. At any rato, they refused to leave the mine, and the man who warned theiu returned to tho surface only just in timo to escape the fato of tho men below. The shaft, with a roar, closed in, and they wero entombed.

No effort was made to rescue the buried men. It was impossible to save them if they were not killed by tho cave, and it was supposed that tho tun-

hasjbejm abandoned for Z'lhM ^so collapsecCTolinYTshaft 100 feet through treacherous ground would take a long timo even in these

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years went by. Tho story of the mine and tho buriod men became an old one. Their names were forgotten. They wero like men who go down to the sea in ships and perish in sight of their homes. Their friends know that somewhere in the sea their bones aro bleaching, some- 1 where in a great sepuloher upon which they may look, but into which they cannot see.

Fifteen years after tho caving in of tlie mine some prospectors overran tho locality. They were told the. story of tho Sunset ledge, and thev went to its croppings and to the dump where tho shaft had been and tested the oro they found (hero. Whether they found any gold is not known, but they found something which encouraged (hem. Perha]is (hey went not well versed in quartz, and believed that any ledgo 1 would pay if.developed. They resolved to reopen the mine. It was their opinion, they said, that tlie Sunset company had not. put their shaft down in the right, place nor sunk it deep enough. I They (tho new company) would chooso a better spot, sink their shaft much I deeper and tap tho lodgo on tho pay shoot.

Old men who hoard of it shook their heads arid prophesied failure. They 1 said 110 hick could conio from disturbing dead men's bones, but tho now company began and fiiiisliod thoir shaft. I Thon they excavated a tunnol and raised an inclined shaft, hoping anil expecting to sfcriko tho Jedgo where their

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judgment had led them to boliove the pay shoot was. One day, when they fired a blast, there was a rush of water down tho inclino, and the miners wero driven out. After much troublo and oxpenso a larger pump was put in and the mino cleared, and the cause of tho sudden flow was explained. Tho upraiso of tho new company had entered the old tunnol of tho Sunset company about 20 feet from its face. And there 011 a heap of rock, leaning against tho walls, wero two grinning skeletons. Tho bones of the dead contractors who had sat there grinning at their fate and for 15 years patiently waiting to be found were removed from tho mino and given decent burial. Tlie mine was again abandoned ana will probably never bo again opened.—Sail Francisco Chronicle.

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