The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-01-31
Severe Winters ia Elron.
What passes in England and 4.

What passes in England and ~.
mental Europe for "a severe wiris-.
would be regarded in the Norti-l
States and Canada as a comparatir.l-
mild and open season "Fortv,
degrees of FROST" as the Londo5 = =
pers shiveringly put it when recors'-s
the hard winter of 1860, lose muoI :
thier importance when translated ~.
our equivalent of fourteen hal--
zero :" and since the invention of,b.
thermometer it is doubtful n the ~
curry has gone in England below "a
degrees. Memorable severe. wiu,--
there have been in Europe nes a f.
of which have had their importaDca !,
well as their interest in history T.
40I the Black Sea is said to have b7s-
frozen over twenty days, and betwes-
October, 763, and FEBRUARY, 7G4 suoI
a frost prevailed at Constantlnorrs
that the seas are spoken of as froza-
for a hundred miles from shore. 7,
is certain that two centuries bsf7rs.
in $50. Zabergan, King Of the Huns
crossed the Danube on the ice and
routing the troops Of Justinian spread
over Thrace 70 the very walls Of Con.
staItinople, this being the first incgr.
sion OF the Bulgarians who are mex.
week to choose a Prince and regain
autonomy. In 1922 ice covered tbs
HeIlespont. In 1884 the Catteret
was frozen over in 1928 the Baiifr
was passable to travellers for siv
weeks; again in l402 it was frozen
from Pomerania to Denmark. and
twenty-four winters ilater its surface
would bear a rider from Lubeck 10
the shore of Prussia. In l4GO horse.
men rode from Denmark 10 Sweden
and in 154S sledges drawn by oxen
travelled on the sea from RostOck to
In 1855 Charles y. with
his army. horse and foot, and his ar
tillery trains and baggage, crossed the
Little Belt from HOlstein 20 Denmark
to lay siege to Copenhagen. The
German chronicles contain as many
records of severe seasons. In I43s
she large fowls Of the air sought shell
ter in the towns of Germany; in 4ss
and again in 1874, wine merchants in
Flanders cut their wInes-champarug
frappe with q vengence, only cham.
payne was still a thing corked up and
wired in the bottle of the future
with hatcheSs and sold them In lumpS.
In 1865 the lazy Scheldt was frozen
so hard that it sustained the weigh Of
loaded wagons again IN 1894, it and
the Rhine were frozen over; in tie
great cold of 1922 the ZuDder Zee
was ice bound, and in 1851 the winter
brought wolves into the streets Of
Vienna, where they attacked horses
and even men.
The cold seasons of modern Eng
land have been most carefully noted.
with an abundance Of interesting de-
5ails. On midsummer dav, 1885. it
IS said that the frost DESTROYED all the
fruits of the earth in 1OT6-T-after
he period of forty one years that the
writer in the Gardeners Chronicle has
been figuring out-there were dread
al frosts from November 10 April.
md in l40T all the small birds perish
d. The Thames was frozen from
-AOAlNOAA II ItAN " bAtAf C>EllA HUN
november 2s, 1434, till February 10
435, and in 1515-after the long cv-
lie of eighty years had been fulfilled
t was again crossed by vehicles be-
Teen Lambeth and Westministcr
N 1864 and 1867 the river was the
Gene of hond-fires and diversions, Ella
described on latter occasions
~ writers whose passages are familiar
o English readers of this day as the
tories of the great plague and great
ire. Some Shakesperean cOmments-
ors think that they have found in
his unwonted sight Of fire upon ice
he source of the inspiration of the
Bard of Avon's images, and would use
his evidence to settle the date of the
of a play. The winter
If 1888 4 was terrible cold. "The
forest trees and even the oaks split
~ the frost most of the hollies were
killed the Thames was covered with
&C eleven inches thick, and nearly all
he birds perished"