Dodge City times., 1883-02-15
waves and Billiards.

Waves and Billiards.
some years ago, q out the time when
Saratoga waves were coming into fash
ion, new meteorological phenomenon
was invented under the name of the
Manitoba wave. Whether it was be-
cause the region about Winnipeg was
just then coming to be known, and the
land sre ulators merely took up an old
wind and rechristened it for the pur-
pose of advertising the attractions of
the new country, or whether the benefi-
cent breeze that came down from the
Northwest to temper the heats of sum-
mer really became first known to OBJ
servers at that time, it would be useless
now to inquire. 1t is enough for us to
know that the Manitoba wave was for
some time just as we'll established in
the list OF regular atmospheric exhibi-
tiOns as the trade-winds or mOnsOOis.
But somehow the wave grew unsteady,
and the public lost confidence in it. 1t
came to pass that there would be a good
start from Lake Winnipeg, and the
weather reports would lead us to expect
bath of cool air all the way to the tide
water Of the Atlantic; but the wave
would either get warmed up in its prog
ress, or it would turn off in some other
direction, possibly to avoid a breach of
the neutrality laws by crossing the from
tier unlimited, or it would take sta,
upward and ascend to the region of
perpetual frost; anyhow, it got into a
habit of deceiving and Disappointing
some millions of people who were
creeping into the shade and tanning
themselves in anticipation of relief
that never came. If this had happened
only once or twice the wave might have
been forgiven, on the score that all
weather is in its nature attended with
more or less uncertainty, but the prom
ises Of the wave were broken so many
times that it fell into disrepute and be-
came by-word and a reproachto all the
winds that blow.
The next aspirant for popular favor
was the blizzard. This came in mid
winter instead of the dog days, and was
supposed to have its home somewhere
id the region OF Dakota It is reck-
oned a purely American production, al
though it may occasionally spread over
the line into the distant regions of the
dom MON. The blizzard travels to the
eastward when it goes forth on pill
grimage, and its visitation includes all
lands and people that lie in its path.
There has Oh some occasions in the
past been prevailing idea that the
blizzard, being in its nature pronged
and dtvisible, has separated when it
reached the western shore of Lake
Michigan and gone around the State in
stead of passing over it, one fork of the
storm finding its way along the track OF
navigation and jumping from Mackinac
over into Canada, and the other yeering
around through the northern portions
of Indiana and Chic, lea. ing the happy
lower peninsula en- irely unto ched.
Recent experience. however. leads us to
believe that the theory of biiurcated
billiards which. SO to speak, straddled
Michigan without touching it, is an er-
roneous one. Since Sunday last the
blizzard has been felt, even here, and
in the future no well-informed citizen
hereahouts will maintain, as many of us
have dorc in the past, that this State is
exempt from the climatic variations of
heat and cold, wind and wave," to
which the nelSnDOrlDS regions are SUD-
ject. A thermometer below zero takes
the poetry out of good many things.
Amongst the rest it disabuses us of the
fine theory that Michigan has the tenn
perature of perpetual spring in January,
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