Thursday, March 04, 2004 :::
A GHASTLY FIND -- The Wilmington Seacoast Railroad, a few days ago, bought a lot of coal from the Cummock Coal Mines, Chatham County, in this State, where the terrible fire-damp explosion occurred a few days before last Christmas, causing such a frightful loss of life. Capt. R.O. Grant, Superintendent of the Seacoast Railroad, tells us that yesterday, while handling the coal, the part of a skull, with the brains clinging to it, and other bones of a human body, were found in the coal. It will be remembered that 1 of the miners was never accounted for, and it is supposed that the pieces and portions are of the unfortunate man's body.
--- Sanford Express, Sanford, NC. March 6, 1896. Reprinted from the Wilmington Messenger.
Quote of the Day:
Velasquez believed in painting in costume, in dogs, in dwarfs, and in painting again. Goya did not believe in costume but he did believe in blacks and grays, in dust and light, in high places rising from the plains, in the country around Madrid, in movement, in his own cojones, in painting, in etching, and in what he had seen, felt, touched, handled, smelled, enjoyed, drunk, mounted, suffered, spewed-up, lain-with, suspected, observed, loved, hated, lusted, feared, detested, admired, loathed and destroyed. Naturally no painter has been able to paint all the but he tried.
--- Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon, 1932.
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