The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-07
OUR CLIMATE.

. We often hear people rail against our oil
mate as one of very sudden, very great, aud
very frequent changes. But what win such
people think of the climate of New England,
~ truthfully described by the late Rufus
Choate, ono of the greatest men of that Soc
ton of the country? Mr.. Choate introduced
picture of New England summer in his
chisapd speech ON the tariff, to illustrate the
ssoa2 a: m.:,s,55egularity is not ruin. T'-s a
idea that ~ 1s,th re- ssTER ,ir-,. me oe.
soription is wo. s't ss1appiSoaucing. The great
orator says:
ssTake the New England climate in summer ::
you would think the world was coming to an
end. Certain recent hereses on that subject
may have had natural origin there. Cold to-
day hot tomorrow; Mercury at 80 degrees in
the morning with wind at south east, and In
three hours more a sea-turn, wind at east, thick
fog from the very bottom of she ocean, and fal
of forty degrees of Fahrenheit. Now so dry as
to kill all the beans in New Hampshire then
foods CARRYING off the bridges of the Penobscot
and Connecticut; snow in Portsmouth, IN July ;
and the next day man and yoke OF oxen kill
ed bY lightning in Rhode Island You would
think the world was twenty times coming to an
end But don't know how it is we 60 along :;
the early and the latter rain falls each IN Its
season seed time and harvest do not fail the
80 days of hot corn weather are pretty sure to
be measured out to US; the Indian summer with
its bland southwest and mitiga'ed sunshine
brings all up; and on the 25th of November, or
shereabouts, being Thursday, three millions of
gaateful people, in meeting houses, or around the
family board give thanks tor q year of health,
plenty and happiness
How would the GROWERS like to exchange
our climate for the one described by Mr..
Choate? To be sure our late spring was q
cold time, calculated to give the farmers q
fit of the blues, but everything seems to be
coming out right. The last few days have
been of the genuine, yellow summer sort
They have smelt of the sun. Balder, the
Sungod, is on his high horse. It is regular
shunderweather, as the Germans say, the
time
sOf mellow thunder broodIng low.
With shadow strsaks of rain"
70 is very certain that our climate, down
about Rock Island, is one of the most health
full in the United States, and is not subject
to such changes as Choate described.
The Chicago Journal, speaking of that
place says:
No person of observation can live a summer
through in Chicago without being delighted with
the climate of the metropolis. The cheated
terms" seldom run beyond three days, indeed it
is a common remark with reference to the warm
spells, sin three days it win be over"
The present week opened with "scorcher, F"
but Tuesday brought a charming change, and it
would be difficult to find under the sun more
delicious day than yesterday. The air was in
MIGRATING the sun genial, the heavens clear, and
everything was lovely but the streets. These,
we give seeing clean again. The
health of the city is miracle for which we can
not be too thankful to that inscrugable Provi-
dence which keeps the city when the watchmen
on its walls are bilious with sourcrou. or lazy
with lager. It is established and ir-
REPUTABLE fact, that Chicago is the dirtiest and
the healthiest city in the United States But
for this we are indebted, under the special west
ern Providence to which we have alluded, to the
climate Of this latitude. And the lake makes
the climate. 1t insures cool evenings, brac-
ing breezes at night, and consequently whole
some and invigorating slumber, even if the day
has started the perspiration and jaded the body
There ,is not better summer climate in the
country than this. And find source of
amusement in those who leave this delightful at
mosphere to breath the broiled air of the fash
ionable watering places.
When we think of the long, incessant, and
oppressive summers that affiict our dear sister
ST. Louis and the cities of that parallel of iati-
tude, we cannot be too grateful for the splendid
summer cline that besses and braces the inhab-
tants of Chicago.