The Red Cloud chief., 1884-07-25

NRonton Herald/in speakiax Of
"a Unzled etstas Sa}s that thore are
- mnny Is chem that the plural = re-
xlrcd- Ii many parts Of the country
chnnees are 20 sudden, and 90
shat Il could be said that there
~ two or three climates In : single
day. especially IN u own stste 81 Ne
bssa,s. Uhh i not exactly the subject
Of ouf article. What we wish 70 ask i,
2 our climate changingi Iti within
meiory Of many old settlers Of
lteru and Southern Nebraska when
or HIGHT shower was q rare ocr
Indeed, some Of 10 who
H1his portion Of the state 6vs
Escall how dry this was It
chat NJ During the last three years
Nehssav had as much and ffe-
quent as many Of the New
England M This land which WA
but a few IN lce the home Of the
buffalo, eik. aiseiN pd grass-hopper, is
the home today d furdy agricuturai-
lists. with waving fiei pf grain. Prior
to 1870 if anyone shoSa have attempt
ed to farm in this postk@ OF NebraskA,
he would have been try lRht insanes
such wa. the dried and pa bed condi-
ton of the country for thu Kant Of
rain. During those years, WI II did
rain, it was only light showers:y With.
In the last three years rains = puff
fciently frequent, and many es
very heavy. The increase in rsinh
has changed the nature Of soil ana csSs
mate of this country. Rainfalis arc
not the only evidence Of climatic
changes. June frosts in some of the
New England states, causing some sem
sitive people to wear o~vercoats and
shawls. Some day. SO hot that it was
dangerous to be out of doors. There
are droughts in some states and floods
in the next. Cyclones turn up In the
most uaheard OF places, and cloud
bursts ravage eastern towns, at about
tho same time they are submergine
southwestern valleys. 1t is said tina,
nature never seemed so capricious and
unaccountable in here freaks as she
has been since the "g-ay day" two
years ago when President Garfield Wa:
borne from Washington to the sea
shore to die. 1t is said by those who
are in a position to know that cyclonic
visitation in the Mississpi Valley arc
attended with an equal diminution O
summer heat. The heat is not nearly
ms intense rs it was twenty or thirty
years ago. 81. Louis, cnce considered
almost as hot as an oven from the firsl
of June till the last of September, is
now comparatively cool; SO much sc
that those who left the city the last
two seasons concluded that they had
better stayed at home in preference &c
going abroad for a cooler locality
There are exceptions to all general
IuiCs; tSpCOlIily Siiiii1tiO lQttc, outlt u
suggested that three exceptions in sue
cession point to the possibility that the
rule itselfis gradually failing. And the
weather bu, eau is called upon to throw
some light ON the question whether OF
not there are really more cycloniG
phenomena and disturbances now thar
formerly, and less heat during the sum
mel months. We apprehend if sons
of us should be spared for the next tar
years we will witness still more ant
greater change in climate, induced
by an increased rainfall. There is
theory advance by some that breakin,
up the soil of q new country, and plant
ing of trees increases rainfall. Doubt
less this has much to do with it,, Blu
just how much We do not pretend t
say. NJ.