, 1877-02-16
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- inhalitant-the Weafhrr.- Ma
Ivain delivered one of his afisr-tiinnrT
si-eechea. q which The following u n
alsirart
j revereuiiy believe that tho Maker
Who made ne all maize everything IN
Nev England but ths weather doRT
knoW Who makes that, but I think a
must b. nav apprentices in Tie veaiher
CLERKS iactory. Who experiment. and
learn hou in New England for hoard
and clothes, and then aro promoted 70
make weather for countries that require
a good article and will take their ems.
tom elsewhere IL they don't get Il.
Laughter. There Il q sumptuous w
rlety about the New England weather
that compels the strangers admiration
and regret. Laughter. The weather
Is always doing something there; al
ways attending strictly 10 business; a.
ways getting up new designs and trying
them on the people 10 see how they will
go. But 1t gets through more business
In spring than in any other season. In
the spring have counted 136 different
kinds of weather inside of four and
twenty hours. Laughter. 1t was /
that made the fame and fortune of that
man that had the marvellous collection
OF weather on exhibition at the Centen-
NAL that so astounded the foreigners.
He was going to travel all over the world
and get specimens from all climes. I
said: Don't you do it; you come to
New England on favorable spring day.
told him what he could do in the way
of style, variety and quantity. Laugh
ter. Well. ne came and made his col
lection in four days.
"Old Probabilities has mighty rep
utation for accurate prophecy, and
thoroughly well deserves it. You take
up the papers and observe how crisply
and confidently he checks off what to-
days weather is going to be on the Pa
cifc, down South, in the middle States
and in the Wisconsin region. He
doesn't know what the weather is going
to be in New England. He mu1ls over
it, and by and by he gets out something
about like this: Probable nor'east to
sou'west winds, varying to the south
ard and westard and BASTARD points be-
tween; high and low barometer, sweep
ing around from place to place; prob
able areas of rain, snow, hail and
drought, succeeded or preceded by
earthquakes, with thunder and light
ming. Laughter and applause. Then
he jots down, this postscript from his
wandering mind to cover accidental
But it is possible that the programme
may be wholly changed in the mean
time Laughter.
II could speak volumes about the in
human perversity of the New England
weather, but will give but single
specimen. like 10 hear rain ON tin
roof, SO covered part Of my roof with
tin. with an eye to that luxury.
Well, sir, do you think it ever rains on
the tin2 No, sir; skips it every time
Laughter.
sIf we had not our bewitching au-
tumn foliage we should still have to
credit the weather with one feature
which compensates for all its bullying
vagaries-the ice storm-When a leaf
less tree is clothed with ice from the
bottom to the top--ice that is as bright
and clear as crystal; every bough and
tWig is strung with ice-beads, froaan
dew-drops, and the whole tree sparkles,
cold and white like the Shah Of Persia's
diamond plume. FApplause. Then
the wind waves the branches, and the
sun comes out and turns all of these
myraids Of beads and drops to prisms,
that glow and hum and fash with AL
manner Of colored fires, which change
and change again, with inconceivable
rapidity, from blue to red, from red to
green, and green to gold; the tree be-
comes sparkling fountain, very ex-
plosion Of dazzling jewels; and it stands
there the acme, the climax, the suprem-
est possibility in art or measure Of b.
wildering. Intoxicating, intolerable mag
nifcencel One cannot make the words
too strong. [Long and continued ap-
plause.1 ]
Month after month l lay up hate
and grudge against the New England
weather; but when the ice-storm comes
at last. say, There, I forgive You now:
the books are square between us; you
don't owe me a cent; go and sin no
more: your little faults and foibles
count for nothing; you are the most en-
chanting weather in the worldr Ap-
plause and laughter.
HUMAN EYEs.-Of all animals. man
enjoys the most perfect and capable
eyes. With a large globe preserved IN
its form by dense, thick, resistant coat
or tunic, to which suitable muscles are
attached for the most delicate and ex-
tensive movements-with an opticalappa-
ratus fer collecting sharp, disadvantages
of surrounding objects, and last and
most important, nerve membrance ofa
cut shape safely lodged within, endow-
ed with the marvellous and exclusive
power of perceiving Light, and sending
to the brain reports from the vast uni