Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1864-1865, 1864-01-15
SplcELANp, lad,
lst Mo. Isl, 1864.


SplcELANp, lad,
lst Mo-, lst, 1864.
a happ, New Year to Editors,
readers, and all connected with the
Journal. It's a waste OF breath to
irish a man happy this weather, un-
less, suitlng the action TO the word,
you give him tight room and good
fire. Why, the heat of the day
lacks fourteen degrees of bringing
us up to the starting point OF zero
or no heat at all. Ii metcorology
itself is not frozen, observers have
something to do to-day; make a
note at least. Query; DO they have to
put stamp on their ,ooathcr' mates :
| have heard the Noachlan del
uge and the inclination OF the
Earth's axis accounted for by the
ingenious supposition that the
Southern end OF the axle somehow
slipped and fell about 234 deg.
which would naturally slop out
part of Oceans contents.
Now don't let us in trying to
screen ourselves fall into the habit
of blaming everything onto the
South, though | think | can see
clearly that IN the matter OF this
rebellion, she is rather the most TO
blame.
StIll we are not apt to waste
much pity on papa, though his
shins smart from the kicks OF ''lIt-
tie SON. ii he has been liz the hab-
it OF knocking under and laugh
ing at such displays of passion as
exhibitions of pluck
Verify we are all guilty concern
ing cur brother, and from the scar
city OF white volunteers, and the
alacrlty with which colored soldiers
are received, it is not improbable
we may vet show down to him.
AT any rate we shall suffer and
are suffering a righteous retrlbuton
for our completely with the busi-
ness OF selling hlm into Egypt.
But | was abon; TO say that it
seemed as though just as it came
round to the starting point the axle
had slipped again about as far.
throwing us up to about llt. 20
deg. Waking up one of these
mornings-mercury 20 deg. below 0,
it is not strange IL 1t, a fellow
: should recollect dreaming he had
. been out with DR.. Kane and been
! lett on an island in the Polar s. a,
to he emhalmed by the frost and
pre- .erved like Siberian elephants a:
: a puzzle to future explorers. From
: 36 deg. above zero one evening tC
| 20 deg. below next morning, or %
: deg in l2 hours, is a rate OF De
scent probably unprecedented. !
il should be the same the coming
= night our thermometers would be as
useless a. those spoken OF BY
!, Holmes on that remarkably hot day
when 'two thermometers blew up
: Then what ShaH we do If Con
: eresS raises the tax still higher Of
: a., ohol 2?
This is the day | believe, o.
: which it Is in order to write hom
liz on 'the flight OF Time wElci
. at first intended, and even went 81
far as to select a text from Young
10 Wit:
Time in advance. behind him hides Iii
2 wings,
And seems to creep. decrepit with his age !:
D Behold him, when pasr by: what then II
i, seen.
) But hi. broad p.nions s7if'er than tn
y wind p
This | thought would be nlceI,
= illustrated by an aIluslon to the re
markable contraction OF this pro
slavery war, being reduced to a 81
DAYS coatest viewed "in advance.
! say New Years day, '6l. But
: wasn't warm enough TO keep tn
ink from freezing Al "Ojr I
: the first gray hair would be eqnaI
. IL chilly, Tor one wonld ineyitabl
n stumble on 10 "snowy To- KS tn
. "lrosts OF age" or something sC
- But gray hairs are not so dreadf,
% after all, if the popular notion /
% correct, that that color only ca