The Cairo daily bulletin., 1871-11-25
WEATHERISH.

--Flocks ofsnow birds, in numbers as
numerous as sands on the sea shore, are
taking their flight over the city, IN search
Of something, or going somewhere to re.
create during the winter months. Being
birds of reputable character they will not,
Is they value their good name, even fly
over Paducah.
Every person who was northern boy
before he became Cairo man, calls to
mind whenever the first snow flakes fall
like feathers from the clouds, the formerly
much admired poem, beginning with the
| lines
1t SHOWS cries the school.boy; hurrah aad
| his shout
| Is ringing through parlor and hall;
And swift as the wing Of a swallow he's out.
| And his playmates have answered hi. call"
Thursday morning the first snow
statement in the face of the important
and overpowering fact that the river re-
porter of the Effulgent Lumnary of the
Levee, vulgarly called the Evening Sun, and
the equally sagacious reporter of this able
| paper, have both stated that the first snow
OF the season fell several times last week.
The reporters who made this statement
were, for stipend no doubt, attacking the
climate Of Cairo in the interest Of Padu-
cab. The first snow, we insist fell on Thurs
day morning, and then only few flakes.
These would not have fallen then If the
council had not neglected to pass an ordi-
nance prohibiting snow falls within the
cooperative limits of the city, an ordi-
nance which the reputation of Cairo for
balminess imperatively demands.
We seize the present opportunity
seize it with one of our most determined
grasps-to say that since Thursday even.
ing the weather in Cairo has been az dis
agreeable as the republicans were, a few
weeks ago, when they would persist in ask
ing us democrats if there was any later
news from the elections; or as disagree
able as the patron of newspaper who
gives the editor his advice concerning the
manner in which the paper should be con-
Quoted, and gives the editor nothing but
advice forgetting to pay, you know, the
little bill which has been due
a month or year; or as disagreeable
as persistent exhorter to christianity who
insists that you must "try to be saved
right noW;" or as disagreeable rs citizen
of Cairo who is always signing and shak.
ing his head and regretting that the town
Is going to HI, sure; or as disagreeable
as the presence Of Myers or Joe Arnold to
thief caught in tho act or as disagree
'bls ss-well, in short, internally Disagree
sble
This is from Thempson's " Winter
" Now when the cheerless empire of the sky
10 Capricorn the Centaur Archer yields,
md fierce Aquarius stains the inverted year,
lung Ger the furthest verge of heaven, the sun
carce spreads through ether the detected day.
'snt are his CLEANS, and Intellectual shoot
lis struggling rays, in horizontal lines,
through the thick air; as clothed in cloudy storm,
Vesk, wan, and broad, he skirts the southern sky;
nd, soon descending, 10 the long dark night
all, the PROSTATE world resigns
or is the night unwish'd; while vital heat,
ight life, and Joy the dubious day forsake.
'eantime, In sable cncture, shadows vast,
eep.tinged and damp, AMI congregated clouds,
nd all the vapory turbulence OF heaven,
ivolve the face Of things. Thus Winter falls,
heavy gloom oppressive Ger the world,
through Nature shedding influence malgn,
nd rouses up the seeds Of dark disease.
10 soul OF man dies in him, loathing life, r
nd black with more than melancholy views.
10 cattle droop; and DER the furrowd land,
resh from the plow, the dun dscolor'd hocks, I
Intended spreading, crop the wholesome root, d
ong the woods, along the moorish fens,
CHS the sad genius OF the coming storm;
I'd up among tho loose disjointed cliffs,
I'd fractured mountains wild, the brawlipp broo,,
I'd cave, presagetul, send hollow moan,
long in listening Fancy's ear.