The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-04

the length and depth Of Lake Ymca or
the dimensions Of the Bay of Wctup
OF even less interest to the masses
are the occasional attempts of daring
adventures to reach h North Pole.
II somebody would fetch the North
Pole home and exhibit 1t in n dime mu-
scum, IL would no doubt for a season
fairly divide the honors with the ossi-
fed man and the ~two-headed calf. But
in its present inaccessible, cold and i'm
every way unsatisfactory condition,
the North Pole Toes not receive a seri-
GUS thought in the brains of the people
at large, except possibly when they are
roasting under an August sun.
On the other hand anything in the
nature of n hole in the ground instantly
infames the Imagination. To depart
from the surface of the earth i'm either
direction is a proposition that fills all
men with eager curiosity and. il the
risk be not too great, with keen de-
sire. Few spectacles 80 excite the null
titude as the ascension of a balloon.
The popularity and fame of the Eifel
tower are due to the same principle.
And if holes in the ground have not at
tracted such deep n absorbing atten-
ton, it ia because there are &C few
worthy of the name. Caves n mines
i'm spite of their comparative shallow
ness, have always been hemes of fasci-
nation to the ~populace. Poets have
ignored them, 1t is true, but dealers in
recognizing human natures
inherent owe for them have given the
ca, tiles their due.
The idea of digging a hole as deep
into Mother Earth as Mother Earth
fore, with the warmest endorsement of
both the scientific and he vulgar
mind. There is u general desire to get
q look at the fires which are said to be
down below there, and although
Mother Earth may make it SO hot for
the diggers after they have passed the
point ut which she draws the line that
they will have to pack up their picks and
in a hurry and tell the elevator
boy to get u gait on the hosting appar-
still the wOrld will have the sat
isfaction OF knowing that it has gone
near to the bottom of the subject as
circumstances will permit. After a
few more Thousand years the fires may
cooled sufficiently to allow the
work to go on, and n through under
ground passage to China may yet be
accomplished.
We predict that the London expert
ment will be awaited with deep and
widespread interest. II it meets with
u reasonable degree of success, it will
assuredly be duplicated i'm all parts of
the world; and n time may come
every man of means and any style
about him will have his own individual
hole in the ground. Suitable
will be constructed ut the various lew
els for general hotel and restaurant
purposes, and indeed underground pas
may be constructed between
neighboring and ever distant holes i'm
the ground, SO that i'm the course of
years the interior of the earth will be
on a very large and in
tensely interesting scale. Some inven-
tive genius, indeed, may construct u
hole in the ground OH a system which
will enable it's possessor to pull it i'm
after him, and then the idea will be
At any rate holes in the
ground may be SD numerous and such
a feature of life on this globe u few
thousand years hence that no One, not
even the dullest and stupidest creature
living, need suffer the reproach that he
distinguish his horse from an
artificial cavity in the earth's surface.
Success. therefore, to London's expert
ment. and all honor mt renown to the
diggers and those that hire them to
do