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Mataura Ensign, 27 January 1911, Page 5

Hundreds of people living in the vicinity ol' the First .Place Methodist Church at Brooklyn were held spellbound, reports the journal "Popular -Mechanics.' as "Steeplejack Hughes" swung !!)() feet in the air from the spire of the ch irch with his little lotir-year-oid daughter Ethel on his lap. The crowd looked up with apprehension and astonishment as they reached the height of ascent. Hughes, who is a professional steeplejack, had a contract to paint the .steep!'>, and was about to begin the climb when his daughter rushed up, out of breath, and said, "Dada. please take me along." As no special arrangements had been made for the carrying of an extra passenger, Hughes demurred for a few nu'iiutes before giving his consent to the child's whim. Perhaps the most singular coffin in which a human being was ever buried is the one of which the following story is told. A workman engaged in casting metal for the manufacture of ordnance in the Woolwich Arsenal lost his balance, and fell into a cauldron containing 12 tons of molten steel. The metal was at white heat, and the man was utterly consumed in less time than it takes to tell it. The War Office authorities held a conference, and decided not to profane the dead by using the metal in the manufacture of ordnance, and the mass of metal was actually buried, and a Church of England '•lergvnian read the services for the dead over it.