Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-06-19
An Interesting Table.

An Interesting Table.
THE Boston Advertiser has prepared an
interesting meteorological table, showing
a complete picture of the past winter over
the entire northern section on the United
States from Portland, Maine, to Portland,
Oregon The data and figures thus tabu-
lated show many important as well as
some curious results. There are three
marked divisions of climate between the
Atlantic and Pacific, along the belt of
country over which the observations ex-
tend The first division embraces the re-
gion from Maine to the Mississippi, and it
Is termed the section of deep SHOWS. Go
ing westward there is rapid dimunition
until, at Duluth, Minnesota, is a little more
than one-fourth of the amount at Maine.
The boundary between the region of snow
and region comparatively snowless is
found in the vicinity of the Mississippi
River in Minnesota From this point to
the Rocky Mountains, across Dakota and
Montana, distance Of about nine hun
dred miles, the deposition Of moisture
during the whole winter was less than
that of single storm in January between
Lake Michigan and the Atlantic. This
may, therefore, be termed the snowless
region. The third climate division is
west of the Rocky Mountains, in which
region, as well as east of the Mississippi,
there is great deposition of moisture;
while the vast intermediate region, in
Guiding the basin of the Missouri, and
Yellowstone, and their tributaries, and all
the region northward to the Saskatchewan
and beyond, has winter atmosphere SO
devoid of moisture and free from clouds,
and so beautiful, invigorating and electric
that 1t may be said to have distinct and
separate climate The general average OF
temperature is lower west than east of the
Mississippi. The progression of the sea-
sons is another feature distinguishing the
three sections. In many parts OF New
England, in Central and Northern New
York, and in Canada the ground was
covered with snow for four months, while
westward to the region beyond the Missis-
sippi the farmers were blowing the ground
and sowing their crops early in March by
the middle of the month the prairies being
clad in fresh yerdure, and the strawberry
vines up and growing. These meteorolO
mOnial to the high value of the work
which is done by the observation of our
Signal Service Bureau.
-Alcibiades Botteler used to keep a
barber shop, and invented shampooing
machine. So he fixed up contrivance
with kind of an iron stand, from which
two jointed arms, with steel claws, pro-
truded. These claws were covered with
chamois skin, and the arms were moved
in any direction by series of cranks and
levers Steam power was obtained from
the factory next door. Mr. Botteler in
structed the shop-boy how to start the
machine, and, seating himself in chair,
he placed claw on each side Of his
head The boy must have pulled the
throttlc-valve out about foot too far, for
in about a minute the steel claws clutched
Botteler's head so that he thought his
skull would crack, and the shampooing
machine began to rear and plunge and
tear around that room, and it lifted Alci-
blades from his chair with jerk, and
Drained one of the bystanders with one
leg, while it jammed through looking
glass and scooped Botteler around among
the juge of hair dye, and beat him against
the ceiling and soused him into the wash
basin, and raked him around among the
shaving mugs and the razors, battered his
head against the wall, and all the time the
steel claws worked. and scratched, and
grabbed for better hold on his head,
until they shut off steam in the factory,
when Alcibiades Botteler was found with
his neck elongated at least six inches