The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-05-18
FACTS FOH THE CENTENNIAL mUL.
TIrUDE.

Asylum, through nine years, compiled care
fully Genealogical tables that should be
continued by his successor In office. From a
general average, derived from these tables,
it seems that the height of the thermome-
ter each year during the month of January
is 52.0s; for February, 50 "a; March,
61.44; April, 65.70; May, 1915; June,
1885; July, s1.75; August, s4.2O; Sep
teuiber, 76.43; October, G7.3O; November,
1913; December, 5O.25. The annual mean
temperature for nine years was, in 1865,
67.1O; 1866, 67.74; 1867, 6S.41; 1868,
5000; 1869, G5.s2; 1870, O698; 1871,
GS.12; 1872, 6G.4O; 1873, G7.33.
These tables demonstrate the fact
that the temperature of Austin is not
only most equable, but that excessive
The opinion obtains that the average rain
fall in Southwestern Texas is less than in
most Of the States. Prof Van Nostrand
made careful annotatiOns of facts through
each of the ten years. The average depth
OF the annual rainfall upon the earth's sur
face is about 90 inches. In the Torrid Zone
the rainfall is 96. % inches; In the Temper
ate, 36.05; in the Frigid, 1925. Although
the average annual depth of rainfall in Aus
tin is somewhat less than in districts of
older States, densely overgrown with for
ests, 1t is of sufficient quantity to assure
most profitable production of corn, cotton,
wheat and oats. Summer is often long and
dry, but ruinous droughts are exceptional
and rare. The supply of moisture from
sea winds and from summer showers is gen.
orally ample to assure the most productive
growth of cotton and cereals, while proper
and continuous cultivation of crops is rare
ly interrupted by transforms. The average
quantity of rain that fell at the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, through the past decade, in
inches and hundredths, was, in 1865,
3s.4O; in 1866, 41.05; 1867, 2719;
1868, 1000; 1869, 1854; 1870, AZ % {;
1871, 1921; 1872, 1881; 1878, 44.94 ;
1871, 46.10. The average depth of rain
fall through each of nine years was &c. 81
inches, and this depth grows as trees are
is widened. The average annual rainfall
in Kansas is only twenty-five inches. But
when the weather is dryest and hottest, in
June, July and August, the fresh moisture
burdened breezes from the Gulf dispense re-
freshing dews and thirsty fields quaif to
safety. Not only do growing crops, but
jewellers on the hills and plains about Aus
tin greet the rising sun IN midsummer re-
invigorated by cool winds just bathed in
tropical seas. The so-called "northers" are
cold winds that come down suddenly, ira
versing broad plains of the northwest.
These beget instant changes of temperature,
but death and diseases are not diffused.
Winds that come from Pixies Peak may
make one SILVER, but there is neither rheu-
matism nor ague resulting from the fall
OF the mercury, and mercury and qulnine
are never required in remedying effects of
these sudden and cold air baths. Learned
physicians tell us that these ''northers," on
the contrary, are most advantageous and
promotive of public health. They GER
tainly dissipate noXious vapors exnaled
from a city's sinks and sewers and have the
effect upon heated atmosphere ascribed to
thunder storms in equatorial regions. We
have even here, slight snow storms and
icicles have glittered in the sunlight on the
caves of Austin homes; but in ten years
mother earth has never donned u mantle
Of snow thick enough to conceal her naked
ness and no Austin youth ever learned how
TO crack his skull by tying skates to his
feet. The delightfulness of our climate re.
suits from the absence of marshes, from the
city's elevation 500 and 600 feet above the
sea level, from breezes that blow from the
sea oyer verdant plains. Fields and plains
each year on the first of April are OF
deepest green and flowers are full-blowr
and jewellers on these heights about Austin
deem this the choicest abiding place on
Gods footstool.