New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-13

People coming to this country from Europe manifest
surprise ~ ihe DcantIul aha pay uSy w,Su a. 800
in the sunny isles Of tie West lndies FROM ISL 70
chase under the ropcs might have taken kindly 70
climate, bat the little word "below which Oeenfs three
times I'm the foregoing table during years
mark days when he would been aroused from any
tendency underestimate the famed powers OF winter
in this Northern land But with Us even tie m.laea
Winters are caprcous On Saturday Jan 80 the weather
Was as mild almost as on a pleasant dsy a.
and threatened The Frost King often takes tho metrop
oils by Storm; but IL ho sometimes rules with sway
that IS absolute, his reign is seldom of long dutaen
and shifted the bamy breezes throUgl TIE open WRdoes
shvered and chartered in the air sunday those
saw Western winds kiss OF the rain drops on inuss
howls without aud fakes OF snow glitter IN the leg ar
s tho stands boldly out that this HIS been Ihe
Mild Winter" Last Saturday ali smiled again,
and the dawn OF Summer IS In the ambentar In Europe.
we'll here, the weather has been unusually pe--
ant and in Paris the cafes on the boueyaTds
IN January If In Spring Bouquets OF yoes take tns
place OF ernines and sabes, and Il "a said that Alaska
shakes because the rest Of the world refuses 10 SILVER
New Years DAY 1865 and New Years day 1859 both
bleak cold diSagreeabie anniversaries tie streets being
filed with slush and rain and SLOW falling from the
clouds throughout the day. But the Sd Of January.
1863, remarkable day, the weather pelng peculiarly
mild; while in 1868 thore "let up" during rhs
month. on the sth OF January last the thermometer
ranged higher than IL had done at any ne since Aove
Der 90 the scale being from 3T' 10 4s bat tao EN-
ranged from 4O' 5l'. so equab!e was the weather
hroughout the month that the mean toT no
uary IL high 99a Ii is noticeable that on e
"A "a.
sOh az D. 1t was So II is diicut to realize tnat ma
city where Just year ago there was steady not eI
cessiye cold, IN the corresponding month tAis YEA.
should be steady ana unusual Leat Fsoius.y'
last year. tie coolest month IN many yeaui
colder by CO than The cold January tElt ,, Isa
month viii be again in years TO come. ioreisnet
VINO here last summer would laugh ut the eaatsr
ings OF his friend who had preceded nm yeSrI' ~,
when the acclinated gentleman should speak Of s 20
oemeney OF the climate, but before the eonRg@ Wv
he might learn by few days experience VIVA, var
York Winter is when the Frost King MAINTAINS mo en-"
he often manages TO assume. =. ...v o,ths
About this season OF the year men begin 10 speakW,
backbone OF the Winter being broken. the pres'..
season has far had backbone; but one yep ago.
tho thermometer was four degrees above gave lae
warmer weather everybody was assured 81 ina. s a.
bic backbone having given way Every o9 9. ~ ibs
gustod however, az lndns the nppnS t Ss U.s. ,, pss
turning point on the aSd ana IA lee1nS VI" fs Watsr
has scarcely spirit enough to cut ap sngT mid
though me rSmspka % lar TsR TRiBGSEs weather
norris show last week makes 1t PLAIN enough tha' e'e"
mild Winter can pat on e9s.Srlng so,d one OF hs
weather takers was In ls26 lreneuoe. e,y m al;
canse II was in that year attended an 49, to he
excessive cold while coming home from the e1nGsenv.E
IL remember that Winter reinarEeu gu 'I Ca, In
man who overheard the observation "Ou' ~ "'
NO." answered his companion, "you are o0'A "'V''
So we 20; but as every amateur OF cold winds, s1a
each OF Ice, per6lss In haTlnS DIS oN" be-
heve in brds and flowers and sunshine, ana OA" n
breezes can have their years OF dstneuon' VV tho
tho wolves were driven into Vienna .,H ami
cold in 1891, where they attacked cattle tsn tSst
even men In tho streets, II Is pleasant 70 rS' stci
fin the next year, 1922 tho Germans never - IN
their stoves IL the small birds persisted in Eng ,rast
l4O7, and again In 1854 while in the latter ysat
trees aud even oaks were killed by tie nos 1871
parts OF Northern Europe ll72 the trees wee
with leaves and flowers bloomed in January Nn nmps
birds fedged In February II wine fro1e INTO svl ~ Is
so that Il could be cut with Ratchet In
and i5li, the Winter of 142l was 90 md lIa S In isO
rlpened IN January, ana grapes Ia May IN as as
and other years further back the Temperature
mild as t has been this year II shines toay asnd Of
tomorrow but In the march or seasons ana sP Which
days there appears 10 be Jaw % theory with
makes all things even. II IS fayonte tnS'tSSatths
many persons that the seOsons are changing & iS yss
climate I'm this latitude becoming milder tna ,s,n
hundred years ago. Butlhe theory rests upon i5eas
and not upon facts upon motions" and NOT ,ns MID
and many Of the sane people who spend al o. spehto
weather In endeayong to make it peg upon s,;cn Of
hang crotchet are living in almost daily cs ard
an oarthauakc because South America, Cafornsae
tho East Indies we're ately the scenes OF
WILSON'S 10 would DO interesting bit OF stas copls
FORMATION IL it could be ascerained how many .roa
Jumped ont Of their beds at the sound OF the ast
"Wednesday night eKclaiming, THE earthquake tho
knew mis- mild Winter would bring IT. lnsleaSsn
thunder was only the premonitop OF nerceriD'As's"
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