Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels

[Eva Elisabeth]

Kudos, Bill - you are amazing. Thanks also for the link.

"Jane Swisshelm wrote that before her February 1863 visit, she had 'a feeling of scorn' for Lincoln before she met him, she was 'startled to find a chill of awe pass over me as my eyes rested upon him. It was as if I had suddenly passed a turn in a road and come into full view of the Matterhorn.' She wrote: 'I have always been sensitive to the atmosphere of those I met, but have never found that of any one impress me as did that of Mr. Lincoln, and I know no word save 'grandeur' which expresses the quality of that atmosphere. I think that to me no familiarity, no circumstance, could have made him other than grand. The jests, the sallies, with which he amused small people and covered his own greatness, were the shrubs on the mountain side, the flowers which shot up in the crevices of the rocks! They were no part of the mountain. Grandly and alone he walked his way through this life ; and the world had no honors, no emoluments, no reproaches, no shames, no punishments which he could not have borne without swerving or bias.”

[O. Oldroyd: "The Lincoln Memorial: Album-immortelles", p. 413-414]

...and I know he would have enjoyed this story:
http://www.littlehouseofcats.com/cats-in...atterhorn/

Bill, you win an Alphorn concert at the Matterhorn:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sM1rG6DJnkw