Does anyone know about 'snow-angels' in 1885?

Answer 1

THE SNOW ANGEL.

THE sleigh-bells danced that winter night;
I Old Brattleborougli rang with glee;
The windows overflowed with light;
Joy ruled each hearth and Christmas tree.
But to one the bells and mirth were naught:
His soul with deeper joy was fraught.
He waited until the guests were gone;
He waited to dream his dream alone;
And the night wore on.

Alone he stands in the silent night;
He piles the snow in the village square;
With spade for chisel, a statue white
From the crystal quarry rises fair.
No light, save the stars, to guide his hand,
But the image obeys his souls command.
The sky is draped with fleecy lawn,
The stars grow pale in the early dawn,
But the lad toils on.

And lo! in the morn the people came
To gaze at the wondrous vision there;
And they called it The Angel, divining its name,
For it came in silence and unaware.
It seemed no mortal hand had wrought
The uplifted face of prayerful thought;
But its features wasted beneath the sun;
Its life went out crc the day was done;
And the lad dreamed on.

And his dream was this: In the years to be
I will carve the Angel in lasting stone;
In another land, beyond the sea,
I will toil in darkness, will dream alone;
While others sleep I will find a way
Up through the night to the light of day.
Theres nothing desired beneath star or sun
Which patient genius has not won.
And the boy toiled on.

The years go by. He has wrought with might;
He has gained renown in the land of art;
But the thought inspired that Christmas night
Still kept its place in the sculptors heart;
And the dream of the boy, that melted away
In the light of the sun that winter day,
Is embodied at last in enduring stone,
Snow Angel in marble his purpose won;
And the man toils on.

Answer 2

Michigan Technological University traces its origin to 1885, when the state of Michigan founded the Michigan Mining School in response to the Keweenaw Peninsula's copper mine boom of the late 19th century; the Mining School served to train mining engineers to operate the local copper mines efficiently.

Initially, the Michigan Mining School consisted of four faculty members and 23 students on the second floor of the Houghton Fire Hall. In 1897, the school expanded and changed its name to the Michigan College of Mines, only to be later renamed to the Michigan College of Mining and Technology. The college grew into a multidisciplinary university, and finally adopted the moniker Michigan Technological University in 1964.

Michigan Tech broke three world records, the largest snowball (21' 3" circumference), largest snowball fight (3,745), and most simultaneous snow angels (3,784) on February 10, 2006, as verified by Guinness World Records officials[2]. This attempt received criticisms [3] from Bismark, North Dakota, the previous holders of the record for most simultaneous snow angels. Much of the criticism focused upon the school children who were excused from school in order to participate, even though without their numbers the old record would still have yielded

Answer 3

This appeared in Harper's new monthly magazine. Volume 70, Issue 416, January 1885, which can be accessed at the link below.

Answer 4

They melted in the spring of 1886.

Answer 5

yes im sure theyve melted away by now =)

Answer 6

WHAT WAS THAT? I AM SORRY I HAVE NO CLUE.