The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-01-28

MINNEApoLrs, MINI, Jan Is. 1868

The air literally spalklcs with frost and
the trees look as if Santa ClaGs might
have laded each of them with silver and
diamonds 1t is very rarely that YOU
have such Il morning east, while they are
nearly all alike here. With mercury us
hard as rock you wou!4 keep is near
the fire as possible, and never Stir tar
from it, without literally bG,yins. Yourself
in furs or wool like Tl.machus in lIo,
mcr's song. Here it is different. Ii is
cold to be sure, but nohody sec,ls to no
tee il much. Spirits and good hnmur 90
up MS mercury gocs down. The air is
pure and bracing. and 50 sill that each
chimney's smoke rises in AN unhroken
column Cl 80 or 40 feet in height. as
regular and aynmetr cal rs If turned from
an artists ehisel. ar altogether looking
in the distance like Il forest Of inverted
towers. Take a morning walk and YOU
feel ninble and young all the way out
and back. The AIR cold, piercing and
fall of oxygen, builds platforms and
stages out of err stdls ami sharp with
. knives, axes and chiscls opens up every
air cell Of the lungs. and send, the blood
charged it'll new life bounding TO every
extremity. None Of your blue. hazy,
frosty days here-when with lhcrmom-
cter at zero you stand on your doorstep
~ t tong enough TO bil yonr ncighbor
J good morning, and then hurry back to
the fire, shiveriug and shaking with an
attack of the chills but little better than
the ague. The increased yigor yon feel
more than cOmpensatcs for the extra cold,
so that you will not wonder that we
somehow mnaage to live here, and a. few
freeze to death, perhaps, as they do in
Vermont. Many a native Of New Eng
land comes here to take his risks of freq
ing and prolong his days, inhalin4 oar
beautiful pure air, but it is queer no Min
nesotian ever spent winter there with
any desire of repeating the experiment
by the ludlCrOus accounts Of our winters
given hy some OF you eastern journalists,
| should suppose you thought all the
people in the State hy bernated in the
ground or the crcvccs of the rocks like
marmois and lizards instead Of living on
the surface HE human beings. Very
wrong ideas have you got of Minnesota,
and her people Some professional cos
mopnlte touches her upon II windy day
in March, or Il slightly singing one IN
January, leaves suddenly in apparent
di gust, cursing the state and conforming
any enterprise that dares rear lis head in
50 unpropitIous climate. Should he be
compelled. however, 10 walk from your
village to Lake Champaign, in the month
OF April and upon the faircst and bright
est day that ever dnwncd, | am sure he
would soon forget Minnesota in the III.
tcn,ity Of present vexation, in being an
able to step one foot quick enough to
keep the other from hiring in the clay.
II Is not only Of the climate, bat other
things accordingly pertaining to our
state, that you people have strange no,
items. Minnesota l. not far away-comc
and see Us. We keep good fires and
warm clothing, and if you should bring
along with you your foo,stone and warm,
ins pan, You might stay couple of
everything safe and ON Il sound basis. Tor
we have elected republican governor
and kept the party ont OF the last ditch
thereby deserving as We think civic
crown. We have too, all the modern
improvements which you will BE- likely
to find at home, "Go34 Tcmpars" and
"bad ones, dress parties ual undress fine
ladies and iirts. good singers and very
poor ones, lyceum lectures and niger
shows; in short, entities and non entities.
intellectually and Dish water, and last
OF all hRYcIS. SO you see we are not 50
much behind Vermont that Won could
not say of US as Pyrrhus dill of the Ro-
mans, ''thcse people are not so much bar
Darians after all" Why should it not be
.. The leading and Influential, part of
Gus people come from New England
From the same and numerous other
sources comes that inevitable sprinkling of
the cay and festive throng' purposes
less and frivolous element, aud often much
lHmenieG. Yet it is indispensable in re-
lleVlna the friction OF social life with sub
.leclS for gossip, rid!cule or regret, and to
keep the State within the Union by hold
ing il in tho gives of universal dcpravity.
An Eastern paper complains that the
lyceum lectures there arc not well sus-
tanned. DeGcnerdcy sure enough p.
"Ihe Dickens take you If he has not
got You already. The cold and shining
bolts OF EmerSon's sublime philosophy
have lost their charm, Anna Dickinson
. / LV SCREAMING aud nrnnrino Iika =, u,,J