The New York herald., 1879-12-12
LOOK OUT FOR THE BLIZZARD !

A QUEER VISITOR WHOSE ARRIVAL FROM THE
WORK THAT HE HAS DONE ON HIS NATIVE
PLAINS.
Look out for it, The Blizzardi 1t has been an
nouneed i'll print travelling in this direction by
easy stages but there been singular public apa-
thy about giving it reception and from the state
OF feeling say that no to serve
on committee for that purpose. In fact. the most
recent advces proclaim that the Blizzard is not 10
here at ALI that it pursued all sorts OF evii
in the West. and dissipa,ed SO much before
getting out Of the Territories that it was periecs
wreck before it reached the Mississippi This cneer-
full intelligence stared many law-abding cit<en ~
the face yesterday and. strange to say he ua no'
feel bit relieved. 1t glared from piscaros d. GU
rious groups, and not a mortal threw up his hat or
yentured a cheer. Tho truth was that mankind
generally was in gross ignorance OK WHAT
q Blizzard is, and did not know whether TO
be detected eated at its failure to WISH these
parts. Like the skyutus. which has SO often
done service in campaign rhetoric, the Biizzard
is no ordinary and its ways are quite Pc
cuiiar Something of the same breed infests Central
Siberia and raises the mischief on the Steppes ut
times but the Blizzard itself ia indigenous to the
Northwest and deeply rooted is its attachment to
that quarter that Barnum. with ali his enterprise
never got real live one to this city OF ours. The
Blizzard rejoces in peculiar name. When they
heard of it rst thought it kind or REPTILE
some that it fabulous beast or bird and some
opined that it good to eat. The ordinary reader
did none of these things. though. He took down
q Websters unabridged dictionary to look for the
name and carefully turned the leaves over to and
looked down the columns OF words and - didn't
find it.. After defyng such polylingual giant as
Webster wonder people gave the Blizzard up in
despair.
WHAT THE BLrZZA3D IS.
Nnx hat hosn cut I'M II n
familiar during the last few days. and science has
good deal say about 1t. When the temperature
falls very suddenly and very low, when tho wind
increases to gale aud blows Tor all IT Is worth,
when there are no end OF frost bites in the land
and amputatons are in order-then the Blizzard
is about. 1t is name, u fact adopted by the West
folk to denote just Such atmospheric changes As
these, and has not as yet been dign1ned by ADMIT
tance to scientific dictionaries. The BLIZZARD in ad-
dtion its other genial concomitants. often brings
q fall of along in sharp. gritty fragments,
which actually binding. This. it Is said. ac-
for the list OF the missing III such storms as
any one caught far from human habitations in one
is likely to be lost in 1t. The Blizzard generally
develops in the Northwest. sweeps the Territories
and never comes east of the Northern Mississippi
Valley. The storm behind which the las.
developed has passed north of this latitude. too and
is on its way to the British Isles. During its passage
the thermometer reached IL degrees below zero,
which quite low figure for even such volatile
fluid as mercury to strike. It Is not very cheering
to reflect either for science announces that cold
wave is about arrive here and abide for four or
i've days Clear and cold. it declares. the weather
will be for space. SO people who began to wonder
why ulsers invented sealskins came into
vogue will have chance of thinking better OF them.
The following record will show the changes in the
temperature for the past twentytour hours in COM
parison with the corresponding date OF Lao year.
indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's Phar-
macy. HERALD Building No. 218 Broadway