The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-01-10
NUMBER SO.

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so thinned thar few remained To breed the
following year. -Four Of Gjlbert Wb;ts,s
own parishone-s suffered from f,oxt b te
aud, lie adds. sthe frost killed all In. II "a
aud mos OF the ivy, and in many places
stripped the hollies OF all the leaves. .
From this minute description of a sever.
winter IN c 'untry parish IN England. the
rural reader can inser that an exceptional
Einier there dOes not differ materially from
an average winter in our Northern States.
In l9e9 a cold wave swept all over Eur,u,e :
and ftom November t. January peo,ae
Crossed the Thames at the custom, horss
on tue ice Again, from Christmas eve.
lI94. to February IA. 1895, England ex-
perenced season Of intense cold o,,lv
Iniermitted for one day, January %. De-
remher, ls96. was also reruarkahfv ell, : ~,
OhrISiinas day the thermometer In Ispnsfon
MARKED 10 degrees below zero the grezt..sf
cold registered mp TO that time On The f9.,.
OF January, 1910. the quicksilver wac f-,z.-,,
snii't AZ Moscow. The winter of 1919 dur.
ing which Napoleon'S army struggled borns
from Russia. leaving 45O coo deal rp-,, 20
mark The track il had taken. was a YER
cold one aS
This il pleasanter than Mnscss sail
the emperor, rubbing his hands over a 6ra
ih The palace he had regained after posting
across Europe the soldiers be had l,.f. E,ss
hind were literally frozen stiff in ,.irrlas
and scores as they Law or sat around fbeir
hiv"uac fires. In 1914 England endured a
winter OF exceptional severity, A writer
IN Londnn paper wrote a few davs AGO tl,af
he that winter walked on the Thames f-,,,,
Hnrseferry road IN London bridge and lfs.lr
Ihe porfrieve of Tavistock set ont To -
me oath OF office NJ ihe @ iarisr Ses 'li.
,hr.N-t"n miles awav, and as the 'tAtHdeal
Register records. was stopped hy suovy Il Al
ice af:er proceeding twenty one miles al
iInpriS med fn a little hamlet for fvvettfv-si =
/ "aSS "ith0ut communication from the outer
world Soldiers marching from town 10
town were frozen TO deafh on the road
The snow drifted in the rireefs 70 su,b :.
heighf That all the Rhops w~-- cla<ssI Ia,
The middle Of January London Bridge was
hiocked. hut thar made no odiffrrence for tbe
Thames was completely frozen over few
days later, when FROST fair was oDeDed ~,
The river au'i bullock roasted whole Fo-
many days there were no mails tbougl, the
post office 7nt forth all its pnwers to eoruDsl
overseers and parochial authorities TO clear
the highways. and sent agents down into the
country To dig roads, along which toilet
mail coaches drawn nv ten horses M coaI
con Il get 10 London. and when The hOuse-
holders Eupply of fuei gave out there was
nothing for him hut to sliver and wait IL
was difficult even 10 reach the l,utsber's
shon. where there were neither fowls nor
Vegetables to he hail. The children had To l,s
KEEP WARM AMI amused within doors " here,
all dav long The lamps were lif. for the
snnwdrths khronded the panes. The water
snow In pals within the Tenders. The Sol
way was frozen over for the first time with.
ln The memory of living men, and the crews
ut coasters aud fishing boats starved ard
persisted OF co?d at sea, being mn able from
the denominations of ice to make port In
The Scandinavian peniusuias the winter of
lS49 was q most severe one IN variuus paris
OF Norway on the 2d of January the uls-r-
cury fruze aud persons exposed TO the Al
no~pheIe lost their ''treaih" Five wears
Ter he herr in
frgisierrd degrees; ,he railroads and
iiVers were blocked. coal rose 10 an enor-
nous price and the metropolis was threaten-
Ell with darkness from the inability of the
gas companies to procure fresh supply.
The next winter, when the allied forces
were shiverinR in the Criinea was to the
fnll az severe. On the 29i "a of January 1855.
The lakes were frozen over on the 22ns, Of
I enruary nTes were made On the Serpeniine
IN Hyde Park, aud in the fens in LINCOLN
shire was est falisht-tl n traffic on the ice
thlrty-hye miles long. The spriug WAY late
and there was cold weather Till the 26th Of
June. In 1860 England ex perienced proba-
bly, her cOld+.st weather From fbe 02i N
fhe 30ih Of December the cold was infenaa
AT Torquay the mercury went down IN
twenty degrees below zero. In Hvde PARK
y was At II degrees. and 4 letter 10 tha
trIles rec orded that horse bad been seen
with iciries at his three inches in
length aud as thick as three fingers "a sight
DY 40 means uncommon ih Lower Canada
The Thanee was partially frozen in its tilsl
rrarhts, and from Teddengton Lock 70 5fs
most remote sources was covered with ire
rom SIX TO ten OF even twelve inches ",
thickness. Skating parties We're arrnuged
Tor journeys from Oxford 10 London aud
back, aud The year ia question viii aiwavs
he remembered among skaters as fhe one in
Nhicb round heeled irons final = euDersee1ed
tll OTHERS. On the OH of .Tarslary 1861
here we're houfres and graud displays OF
rev Orks on The ice iH 81. lanes and the
1ther parks. Jaruary. 1851, was another
'old month. snow aud ice practically ans
vending traffic At Jsnuslssh for several dave
hough people offered cas,Ineu fares Of hf,een
md t"enfy shillinRS a mile. IL was on he
5fh that the ice III Rrgruf's Park gave war
'eneash some 4 sc hundred skaters of whom
orig -one were drowned. Still another cold
easo1 was the winter of 1901. dnrinp
which the poor people of Paris and the illv-
'qniped Republican levies of Gambetsa suf-
cred so severely.