Smyrna times., 1878-05-15

Inc earth IN fertile woods is spread will
yellow and blue carpets"
In spring OF the olden time, under tb,
"hite orchard blooms, listening to the bee
ana watching the swallow, Chaucer lies or
Cne grass and dreams of Arctic ridino +,
Ine woods OF May morning, " and loud
lie sung against the sunny sheen :"
Right welcome be thou faire freshe Nav.
nope That some green here getten mayr'
and the Anglo-American reader Iool,;ro
abroad upon the bleakness of an ovara ne
spring on the Atlantic coast. renIies ssr.
castlcally, "Wish you may get it." and
When William Penn of happy memory
nrst landed in his province, he was dis.
poseo 10 view even the atmosphere tbrouob
q F0se'tinted medium. He writes home
20 the effect, that, having lived through the
sear IN its hottest and coldest seasons. he
! spring e'i'ii
That certainly could not have bear tho
year when there was a heavy snouston.'1 ,t .ano
on OF the tlrst of October; nor that on VII
llrst OF November both rivers near Pb,IadoT
Pni@ were frozen and skated on.
In the winter, our illustrious foundor
TI furthermore reported, the air was drv md
tt toiu win frosts, though scarcely any ice in
c.h me next summer, however, gave him
h;n,,r trSn ,irnIofmatlon. and, probably famine
niinseII - meanwhile, he wrote TO his frienJ9
that the heat was "extraordinarv
Al last' about the time he began to tb;rl,
oI returning to England, he arrived at =
ccooier-headed view of his province and
frankly owned that its weather was "con.
Stant only to INCONSISTENCY"
" nat sort OF conclusions, respectin, tho
chmate OF the fortieth parallel in tho
"eotern continent, would be reached nv an
He i 'raiiah' coming upon a memorandum
" noticeaole variations, with the column
OF years torn off? 0''''ii''
october |. Election day-hard snow.
gust p. NJ. tnuhdef
November l.. Skating on the Scbpvl,iu
and Delaware "0''uy NII
december %. A green Christmas
January q Flies plentifuI-bovs s,y;,, :.
he Delaware. IVY 9"lAl III
January II. Thunder shower
January %. Good sleighing
reoruary l9. Delaware shad in n,orl.o4
Feoruary ~. Four to five feet of snow
ences obliterated. u sHo"-
'loom-dandelions out Pe'o'ieS III
March III. Snow two feet deem
April l. Apricots in bloom-birds 70
ppear. nus re-
april r. Sixteen inches snow
May 28. Hay harvest.
May 80. Frost.
June 6. Black frost.
%9ne w l. Ninety-six degrees in the shade
we doubt if.even a Japanese ceorre' t1r"e' II
her, from such data, all of them correot e
1uld describe the climate of PennsvIvania' ii
even locate" it on the terrestrial cIobe Sc
reminds one of an old poetic fancy abonf c'
le wicked as being finally punished bv h
:! !Petual transitions from extreme heat 10 IN
Ntreme cold, and back again, and wonIJ to
EN- TO De attributable to some see.saw n n
otlon OF the earth not yet discovered NV hu III
were it not that other climates v, "
'ntradlct that hypothesis. q
but pulling down, without build;n, -, "a "a
work ut only for the inf,lel and the N
1I ln'nuhlst' Therefore though OBLIGED fri
,maily aI TO pronounce the dethronement Of m
. way queen an accomplished fact, we IN
~ ,ulo suggest that, were the floral festival hi
VII us nowery glories and all its innocent an
vs. transferred in our climate to the first
1uhe' the country would be the blitLor in
the hard'worked American peonle one ke
whose chief needs Just now Is ,nnro WI
ildays, would be all the better for il fro