The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-20
Dec. II 1883.
ENGLAND PRAIRIE

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The remaining thirteen days o
teaching to finish this term Of schoo
have been postponed until after thu
holidays, to enable Miss Calkins t.
recover her health. y
There is good deal of sickness II
this vicinity; attributed by Elder
Knight and others to the absence o
snow. A slight snowfall on Saturday
night will help to remove this cause
Mrs. j. w. Pratt has been quite sick
for several days. but is improving
since the weather changed.
Henry Banta, who is also We l.
and came from Lisbon, D. I. to visit
his sister, Mrs. Geo. Green, may also
feel the benefit of this changs to win.
ter weather.
Gilbert Tyres has gone to Deer
Greek to work his team during the
winter.
Oscar Pelton wants to sell his farm
here and start stock farm in Per-
ham. He made q trip to the latter
town, last week.
Alfred Whipple has bought a large
lot in Lisbon, D. T.. and is prepar-
ing to build upon it.
w. J. Whipple has not yet sold his
horses.
Rev. John Kni eht has beon ap-
pointed administrator of the Orson
Gould estate, and returned from
Long Prairie to get his bonds, as
such, endorsed.
There is a deartl Of local news.
and next to Elder Greenup's revival,
which still continues, is the topic OF
our extraordinary weather. The ex-
cessive cold Of last winter, spring
and summer caused our weather pro.
phets to assume that we were in a
cold cycle, and to predict an early
and cold autumn and winter. The
late and long continued mild weather
has upset all these predictions, but
does not silence our prophets, who
never learn from outward experience
but depend upon their inward inspir'
ations. When NJ. Arago got charge
of the Observatory at Paris, many
years ago, he formed an association
with the Professors in charge of the
chief observatories of the world. Each
was to keep careful record of the
weather, the moon and all other at
mospheric and cosmical changes, and
each year they all met to compare
notes and observations with a view
to discover some scientific and relia-
bic means of foretelling the weather.
At several of these meetings their
agreed so far as to prom
ise ultimate success; the phases OF
moon for seven years in succession
favored these hopes, hut in the next
three years the changes of the moon
the cherished system and
left the problem vague as before. At
the end of tie fortieth year the So
ciety held its final meeting, and
up the result of it's labors.
The decision was-1hat no mortal
man can tell ono day beforehand, or
achat the aueather ev,ll be tomorroWl
They only found that when the wind
had blown long and strong from one
it was likely to blow from
the opposite direction long enough
to balance back and restore the equa-
librium. If they could tell which
way the wind would come, they
could nearly foretell the weather.
But the wind is proverbially tickle.
and cannot be foretold one hour.
Such facts explain why scientific men
do not foretell the weather, and why
all successful prophets and fortune
tellers use vague and mystical lan-
guage, which allows their devotces
to work out the hidden meaning &C.
core'ing to their fancy and imagina-
tion. The mail is going, and I have
only time to say that the long pre-
valence of north winds which caused
the past cool season, caused long
return ofsouthern breezes; which ex-
plains the warm weather in question.
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