New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-02-19

III
of all the leaves. = From this minutk
description Of 3 severe winter in Is;
country parish ii England, the rural
reader Of the World can infer that.
an exceptional winter there does
not differ materially from an av-3
erage winter in our own { Northern.
States. IN 1889 q cold wave swept
all over Europe; and from November
to January people crossed the Thames
at the Custom House on the ice. Again
from Christmas Eve, 1894, to Feb. H..
1895, England experienced . season Of
intense cold, only intermitted for one
day, Jan. %. December, 1896, was
also remarkably cold;. on Christmas
Day the thermometer in London marked
16 deg. below zero, the greatest cold
registered up to that time. On the 18th
of January, 1910, the quicksilver was
frozen solid at Moscow. The winter Of
1912, during which Napoleon's ARMY
in the palace he had regained after
posting across Europe; the soldiers he
left behing were literally frozen stiff in
circles as they lay or sat round their
bivouac fires. In 1914, England en-
dured a winter of exceptional severity.
A writer in London paper wrote .
few days ago that he that winter
walked on the Thames from Horse
ferry road to London bridge and back.
The Portreeve of Tavistock set out to
take the oath Of office at the quarter
sessions, thirty-two miles away, and,
as the s. Annual Register records,
was stopped by snow and ice after pro-
ceeding twenty-one miles and impris-
oned in little hamlet for twenty-six
days without communication with the
outer world. Soldiers marching from
town to town were frozen to death on
the road. The snow drifted in the
streets to such height that all the
shops were closed; by the middle of
January London bridge was blocked,
but that made no difference, for the
Thames was completely frozen over
few days later, when q FROST Fair was
opened on the river and bullock
roasted whole. For many days there
were no mails, though the Postoffice
pat forth all its powers to compel over
secrs and parochial authorities to clear
the highways, and sent agents down
into the country to dig roads along
which toi!ed mail coaches drawn by
ten horses. No coal could get to Lon
don, and when the householder's sup
ply of fuel gave out there was nothing
for him but to SILVER and wait. 1t was
difficult even to reach the butchers
shop, where there were neither fowls
nor vegetables to be had. The children
had to be kept warm and amused with
in doors, where all day long the lamps
were lit, for the snow-drifts shrouded
the panes. The water-pipes were all
frozen, and people had to melt snow in
pals within the tenders. The Solway
was frozen over for the first time with
in the memory of living men, and the
crews of coasters and fishing-boats
starved and persisted of cold at sea, be-
ing unable from the accumulations of
ice to make port. nthe Scandinavian
peninsulas the winter of 1849 was a
most severe one; in various parts of
Norway, on the I'd of January, the mer-
curry froze and "persons exposed to the
atmosphere lost their breath" Five
years and day after the thermometer
in London registered g deg; the rail
roads and rivers were blocked. coal
rose to an enormous price, and the me-
tropolis was threatened with darkness
from the inability of the gas companies
to procure a fresh supply. The next
winter, when the allied forces were
shivering in the Crimea, was to the full
as severe. On the Goth of January,
1855, the lakes were frozen over; on the
22d of February fires were made on the
Serpentine in Hyde Park, and in the
fens in Lincolnshire was established q
traffic on the ice thirty-tive miles
long. The spring was late, and there
was cold weather till the Goth of June.
In 1860, England experienced prob
ably her coolest weather. From the
23d to the 30th of December the
cold was intense. At Torquay the
mercury went down to 20 deg. below
zero. In Hyde Park it was II deg,
and letter in the Times recorded that
a horse had been seen "with icicles at
its nose three inches in length and as
thick as three fingers sight by no
means uncommon in Lower Canada.
The Thames was partially frozen in
its tidal reaches, and from Teddington
Lock to its most remote sources was
covered with ice from six to ten or
even twelve inches in thickness. Skat-
ing parties were arranged for journeys
from Oxford to London and back, and
the year, in question will always DO
memorable among skaters as the one
in which round. heeled irons finally
superseded all others. On the 9th Of
January, 1861, there were bonfires and
grand displays of fireworks on the ice
in St. James and the other parks. jan.
uary. 1867, was another cold month,
snow and ice practically suspending
traffic at London for several DAYS,
though people offered cabmen fares Of
fifteen and twenty billings mile It
was on the 18th that the ice in Regents
Park gave way beneath some 500 skat-l
ers, of whom forty .One were drowned.
Still another cold season was the win
ter of 1901, during which the poor
people of Paris and the lily equipped
Republican .evies of Gambe:ta suffered
so severely.-N. =. World.
. HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.
Small matters make up the sum of
our comfort, and constant attention to
them will not only save trouble, but
will confirm q habit of looking after
more important things.
Every man who owns an acre of
land becomes q Slender and more snh.