Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-04-21
Obio Stateslllarl,
.CORRY O'LANUS' EPISTLE.

About the Weather-Our Almanac
Confidential ExpIanation Fof the
conference.-the Flying and What
il Costs.
There appears to be something wrong
about the weather.
4 [ suppose there is no doubt that yes
terday was Good Friday, and that twas
the tenth of April. Now l put it to
everybody outside of Lunatic Asylum
-or Congress, whether snow storm at
that date was seasonable, or reasonable
What is going to be the resultif this
sort of thing keeps on I'VE have had
no spring, and we shan't have any sum-
mer; then what will become of the ice
companies, soda water barkeepers,
Coney Island hotelists and other sum-
mer resort speculatorsq 1897 E~e
IF overcoats are going to be fashion.
able through the 'dog-days l should like
to know it. My overcoat has grown so
seedy that I have been mistaken for a
newspaper reporter; but didn't intend
to get new one before next winter.
What l want to know is whether this
is last winter or next winter2
of the St-1S60-X edition, which l
have always found reliable. on dates,
though there is awant of breadth and
Iliberality in its medical views-it rec
ommends one remedy for all complaints.
which Mrs. O'Lanus says she don't be-
lieve in. Still as an almanac it is to be
depended upon. 1t gives all the months
-. ,,o-~,,1,. o,,J,, -;tI, +ba f,,u ,1louo,oo
of days for each; tells when the sun,
moon and tide ought to rise, with anec-
dotes. conundrums, and other scientific
and useful information, makingit very
entertaining periodical, and remarkably
cheap at that price.
Il You can get single copies for nothing,
with liberal discount on larger guam
titles.
According to this almanac spring
ought to have set in on the first of March,
and consequently be about half through.
{ tits customary to allow, winter a few
days or a week ortwo to wind up busi-
ness and dispose of stock on hand, dis
tribute any snow that may be left over,
and let off little surplus freezing power.
But hanging on for six weeks is i'm
posing on good nature.
The Clerk of the Weather is neglect
ing his duty, and ought to be impeached.
Congress has one big job of that kind
on hand now; the Legislature isltoo much
engrossed between Erie end the white
washing job in the Assembly.
i thought of referring the subject to
the Methodist Conferences, but brother
Just returned from Connecticut, where he
went to vote for Grant and glory, told
me that between politics and the tobacco
question they hadn't time to attend to
celestial matters.
"How is it, my sanctifed FRIEND" said
I, "that being down on the use of tobac-
co you endorse Grant, who is the cham,
pion smokist of the country? He cen
smoke more cigars and talk less than
any other man in the United States, yet
you go for him p
! i"Ah, my beloved friend" said the
Conference chap, "there is a profound
wisdom in this the growing. worms Of
the earth cannot penetrate. We would
Eexalt Grant that he may be visible
throughout the land as warning and
an example to youth of what man
who opens bis mouth only to eject to-
sbacco smoke amounts to- when he is
smoked OUT
What deep fellows these Conference
dominies are. If they would only take
holdsof the street numbering they might
help the Aldermanics committee out of
its muddle.
/ But was speaking Of the weather.
/ Mrs. O'Lanus, who shared the general
Impression that twas spring time,
bought an assortment of fancy vegetables
/ in flower pots and had made some pre-.
liminary horticultural demonstrations in
tbei gafdans H9lH HIUOz Ges 4 q;
| 1 She had to suspend operations and
has been congratulating herself that SHE
Ididn't plant the shrubs last week, foi
| the frost the other-night would have
nipped their buds of promise, and
1 ruined the prospects of her geraniun
fTiiMassS ill Wind dat BlSvs nsbod,
good, and l have an item e. set down Y
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