The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-02-25
COLD WEATHER.

Misery loves company; and our severe
winter weather would be intolerable but
for the cheering information, brought to
us by the telegraph, that other localities
East and South, have suffered with us.
We quote:
Saturday morning Feb l3th) was the cold
est of the season in northern New York and
the Ne9 England States. At Manchester,
Concord. Franklin and other places in New
Hampshire the thel mometer marked 20 to 35
degrees below zero; at Glen's Falls and White
hall, N. y, it was 80 to 81 below, and at War
rensburg, N: T., Al below. In Name the
Portland and White River Junction ranged
from 80 to 40 degrees below zero, while at Ban
cor the mercury concealed. Travel on some
Of the railroads was delayed by heavy
snow, and all outdoor work was stopped
| by the intense cold. The weather at
Toronto was clear but extremely cold, and
ed by snow drifts The harbor at Newport, K.
L., is completely frozen, and the depots and
cas- in Newport filed with an accumulation OF
steamboat freights, which cannot be sent fol :
ward until navigation is open Through trains
sn the Erie Railway were delayed on Saturday
by heavy drifts on the Buffalo and Western
divisions of the read. A Boston dispatch Of
last night reports continuance of the Polar
weather. the range OF the thermometer in
Maine and New Hampshire being from % to q
below zero It was s!generally the coolest day
of the season." and many of the harbors along
the coast were closed.
In this connection the following facts
as to other cold winters will be interes
ing
COLD WINTERS IN EUROPE lin 4Ol the Blacl
Sea was entirely frozen over. In 7oa noI ON;
the Black Sea, but the Straits OF Dardaneiles
were frozen over; the snow in some places ros
u fifty ieet high In 800 the great vers Of Eu
! roue. the Danube, The Elbe, &C., were so har
| lfrozen as to bear heavy wagons tor month
In $50 the Adriatic was frozen, the crops to
4 tally failed, and famine and pestilence close
. the wear. In 1867 most OF the travellers in Ger
, many were frozen to death on the roads. l
1874 the Pc was frozen from Cremona to tn
sea: the wine sacks were burst, and the tree
split by the action of the frost, with INN ems
noise. In 1896 the Danube was frozen TO tn
: bottom, snd remained long in that stat.
: In 1916 the crops wholly aned !
Germany; wheat, which SOLD years before
England at 6s the quarter, rose to e. In lst
e the crops failed in Scotland, and such famir
$ cnsued that the poor were reduced to iced 9
yr,ss and many periahed miserably III Il
Il fields. The successive winters OF 1923
- were uncommonly severe. In 1868 the vii
distributed to the soldiers was cut with hatcl
cts. In 1883 it was excessively cold. Mott
o the hollies were killed. Coaches drove alol
the Thames. the ice Of which was eleven inch
. thick. In 1903 occurred the cold winter; 8
= frost penetrated three yards into the groun
!. In l7i6 booths were erected on the Thanh
- In l.44-5 the strongest ale IN England, expos
'e to the air, was covered in less than fifteen m
Of utes with ice an eighth OF An inch thick
1909, and again in 1919, the winters were
= markably cold In 1874 there was fair on
/ frozen Thames