The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-25

occasional twltter OF o swallow IS nearu, are
truly delightful 1oli,6 they last; but, alas
while the system is all unlocked the pores
ali open, suddenly the cruel north winds
come down upon you, and what is the result?
Let rscking coughs, rheumatic pains, the
sudden extinguishing of life's light where
but yesterday bloomed treacherous health,
answer. To vou, who are afar off, it may
seem that ours is a hyperborean region, when
you learn that thaws and winter rains are
scarcely known among us. We, too, have
our sudden changes, the thermometer
varying, at times, over thirty degrees
in twenty-four hours; but they
come not laden with disease and death Our
very cold spells seldom if ever continue more
than two or three days at a time, and then
very rapidly upward shoots the mercury, but
still keeping ten or fifteen degrees below the
thawing point, below that point at which the
pores are opened, so when comes the next
snap of cold the Joints of our feshy taber-
nacles are not all open to receive his fatal
visit. Providence keeps us enclosed in armor,
and when spring really visits us it comes to
stay and finds us strong to greet it. Where
consumptives have not deferred their migra-
ton until too weak to bear the stimulant of
our climate they find the winter the most re-
cuperative part of the whole year (and that is
Gods design in giving us winter), as also do
those persons whose nervous systems are
prostrated.
WORKING DAYS.
There are in Minnesota few days in every
year so cold that it is not advisable to follow
out-of-door work, though thousands do con-
tinue at trapping and numbering, regardless
of the cold, but 1 hesitate not to say that not
only do we have many more enjoyable days
in the year than you, butt considering your
rains and halls, and sleets that we have also
more days in which man can earn his bread
in the open air. Our average winter tenn
perature is over 16 degrees.
THE WIND.
The wind, not the cold, is the sting of
winter. Let the wind blow with us, and up
rises the mercury; in the East the reverse is
too often true. The comfort of our winters
is that therein we have but little wind, and
our houses are kept warm with less fuel than
those in lower latitudes where high wintry
winds drive the cold into every nook and
corner. The pressure of cold on the human
body increases as the square of the winds
velocity. If our wind is 12a miles per hour,
we have to meet but three e-fourths of pound of
cold against each square foot of our body; but
if yours is twenty-five miles per hour, which
velocity is more common to you that the
former to us, you are assailed with three
pounds of cold against every square foot.
We meet ours with unopened pores, and it
passes idly by us; you, yours very often after
days and weeks of May weather, and it pene-
trates you. Think of three pounds of cold
pressing suddenly against all the open pores
of every square foot of your frames, an d
then you will begin to understand how it can
be true that the winters of Minnesota are
more pleasant than those of Philadelphia
And get Minnesota IS By far tile cOIdest por-
tiOn Of tile whoIe region to be tra0erSed By the
Northern Pacific Railroad. With your per-
mission, will return to this subject. H.