Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-08-08

reach western Dakota and Nebraska
and northern Colorado, are compare
lively warm winds, and evidently
come from the Pacific Ocean. They
are commonly known as Chinook
winds. During certain seasons these
winds have been so warm and 50 long
continued as to melt the SHOWS and
to break up the ice in the upper Mis-
souri, river and its principal tributa-
ries. As the swelling waters, filled
with broken masses Of ice, flow on
ward, they at length reach a point in
Dakota or Nebraska where the effect
Of the Chinook winds has not been
felt, and whore the Missouri river is
solidly frozen. This, in certain in
stances has caused widespread and
damaging overflows.
It has been found that cattle donot
suffer much from the severity of the
temperature Of the northern ranges
SO long as they are able to obtain an
abundance of nutritious food. This
is always the case when the winter
SHOWS are light, or when they are
blown off the high lands.
The storms most disastrous to cattle
are usually those which occur in the
latter part Of the winter or early
spring, and when, after a rainfall, the
grasses and shrubbery become cover
ed with ice, and for several days the
cattle are almost entirely cut off from
their feed supply. Losses from the
severity of the weather occur in every
State and Territory from Texas to
Montana. Sometimes it happens as
has been the case during the past
winter, that the losses from the Sc
verify of the weather have been even
greater in Texas than in Montana.
Range cattle usually have heavy coats
of hair which, when saturated with
rain and frozen, cause their sutferings
to be much greater than when expos
ed to extremely cold but dry weather
The regions where losses on account
of the weather are least are generally
those where the cattle are best able to
obtain sufficient food. and where they
can readily find natural sheltering
places from the violence Of the winds.
THE WICKED ''DIAMOND DUKE"
Duke Charles, of Brunswick, who
died in 1874, ''the most despicable
figure in the most scandalous chron-
icles of our times is the subject Of
most readable paper in the last num-
ber Of Temple Bar. A visit to the
Diamond Dukes famous hotel in the
Champs Elysees must have been, to
say the least Of it, exciting A Aspring
was touched, an armchair presented
itself, and the caller was whirled
round and up into the ducal ante
chamber. This and the bed chamber
were in solid iron; the very bed was
iron. A minute violet shaped aper-
ture in the wall was the keyhole of
the recess where the dukes strong
hold, containing precious deeds and
documents, hung over well many
yards deeper than the first foundations
Of the hotel
The cellars were strongholds like
those Of the Bank Of France. There
were iron cases crammed with gum
eas, Golfers untouched since Waterloo,
containing gold pieces of eight gen
erations Of dukes, and there were
thousands of 10 thaler pieces which
had never been put into circulation
He kept no kitchen, for cook was
necessarily poisoner in his eyes He
mixed his morning chocolate himself;
his milk was brought from suburban
farms in a sealed can. He left his
millions to Geneva Orleans
Democrat.