Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-03-07
LETTER FROM MICHIGAN.
ANN ARBoR, Feb. "a, 1884

to a newspaper, ana IL LHls lachs III
terest you have the cause to which to
attribute it. AS | write the snow is
coming down quite lively, waited
about, however, by heavy wind
which chills person to the bone, as
none but Michigan wind can. The
weather here this winter has been
very disagreeable. On one day the
sun shines forth and the air is as bal
my as spring, but on the next it would
seem as il we were transferred to the
arctic regions, so cold and bitter is
Che air. As the result Of such sudden
changes, throat and lung complaints
are numerous. What difference be-
tween this and dear old Idaho!
There, even If you have some cold
weather in winter, the air is pure and
health is assured. We have had two
sleet storms this month which have
transformed the whole country INTO
an immense skating rink. The sleet
freezing as it fell, covered the ground
with glare ice and the merry skater
could glide along the county roads
and across fields as long and as far as
he wished. | skated the other day to
Ypsilanti, ten miles south of here.
We students skate right up to the
University doors at recitation hours.
THE weather has been very severe all
winter, and as result, it appears that
the entire fruit crop of Michigan is
DESTROYED. The cold was so intense
that the buds were frozen. This is a
great loss, as Michigan farmers de-
pend, to large extent, on their pea
ches, which are Of SO superior quail
ity that in Chicago and the other
large cities they always bring high
prices.
The sufferings of the poor people
in the Ohio valley have been intense,
and immense sums have been raised
all over the country for their relief
Though sympathizlng with them in
their Affections, yet one cannot but
believe that in a measure they deserve
It, as they, in their blind folly, have
built for years right in the track o
the flood AS soon as the flood sub
sides they will as surely again rebuild
Next year we may expect the same
tales of woe and suffering from tina
region. The rapid destruction o
timber has denuded the mountains
and the immense falls OF snow are
on the first warm day, all melted AM
poured into the great river while un
able to carry all of the unnatural floo
pours it out over the country. Tim
Der should be protected from tn
grasp of the lumber kings and nc
nopolies or else ruin and great loss c
life will be the result.
An ice carnival has been in prog
ress at Montreal for some little tim
past Many of our people, lured b
the cheap rates on railways and TIL
prospect of great sport at the ga
kanocll city, made pilgrimages to til
ice palace and paid suit to the sno
king. This is an annual festival ,
Montreal, and the whole PROVING
joins in the merrymaking. 1t is sal
that the beauty Of the ice palace
lighted with myriads Of gas jets ba
aes description, and that nothing is
exciting and invigorating as a ric
down steep hill on toboggan, e
pecially if a lonely specimen of tt
feminine gender is under your Ca
and protection, during the somewh
perilous descent. Mirth has now t
ken her way towards the South, al
during s'Madi Gras" week holds sw;
IN New Orleans. A military compa,
from Detroit, and many Of our we;
thy citizens have gone to the 81
city to witness the great carnival
King Rex.
Washington's birthday was wide
celebrated in this State. We l.
students were addressed by Col. Jol
Atkinson, of Detroit, on the Life al
Times of Washington. In the eve
ing Prof. NJ. c. Taylor, of Corn
University, delivered a very interes
ing lecture on our early Colleges.
We have had Matthew Arnold Al
Edward Everett Hale, and soon W
be addressed by other big guns of t
lecture fraternity.
Politics is beginning TO make sol