Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-02
WHERE 1T Is REALLY COLD.
How they Live in Winnipeg and In the
Northwest TerritOry-A Talk with a
Winter in ManitOba-How
the Farmer Dresses.

Neao York Sun.
"COldw said Canadian from Winni-
peg 10 a representative of the Sun. during
the cold snap a few days ago. Gold
why, surely you don't call this cold. Up
IN my country it is occasionally so cold al
this season Of the year that the cows give
ice cream when they are MIXED. | tell
you that there can be no trifling with the
cold up there. Look at the way we dress.
In winter we all wear furs. The police
men at Winnipeg have buffalo coats down
20 their heels, and every man. rich or
poor, In the Northwest must wear a fur
cap j have known the cold to penetrate
the skull Of a man who went out one day
with an ordinary felt hat, and brain fever
carried him of in three days. The streets
Of Winnipeg just now are full of
men who move about like animals in me-
nagerie cages. You see nothing but
beaver, and otter, and Persian lamb, and
seal, and mink, and raccOOn. and marten.
ana muskrat, and all the furs that ever
adorned the GOths or OstrO-GOths, who
first brought the choice furs of the North
10 southern and Central Europe. And the
sleighs are covered with black and brown
bear and griZZl y~skins and buffalo robes.
while an occasional Astrakhan gives
evidence of luxury IN costly furs.
Without furs we could not live in winter
them as articles Of luxury, as the Chinese
use the ermine. sable, or the fiery fox. but
we are obliged to use them as articles Of
necessity. AID every species of skin is utiI-
lied. The hardy U0YGqeuTS and cOuTeiuS
an bOiS dress themselves in buckskin, with
headdresses of wolf, lynx, badger or wild
cat hides, while silver and blue fox furs
may be seen on the heads OF the rich. A
man must be very hard up in Winnipeg
~ -
gloves or mittens. A walk through the
streets may be turned into a lesson in
natural history by those who read as they
run. In fact, great many people buy
more expensive furs than thew can afford.
| Winter is our season Of extravaganza.
and in our attempt to possess costly flIrs
we often go TuinOusly beyond our means.
''As for the cold" he continued, sit Is
severe, but we do not feel it as much as you
might fancy. We are dressed for it. and
our houses are built to resist it. All our
houses have double doors and double
windows. Fires are, of course, kept 60
Ing night and day. We are not much out
of doors in winter, and yet nearly every
body gets frOstbitten at times. When we
see a man on the street with a white spot
on his cheek or nose we stop and point tn
the afflicted part. He will understand at
once. If the weather is very cold we
IL.
our mustaches freeze TO our boards and
form a crust of ice over our mouths.
We must thaW this off before we can talk.
On the PLAINS, sometimes, a man is frozen
to death, but this does not often happen.
Ii is nc joke to be caught in a blizzard on
the praiTies. 1t happened to me once a lit
tie north of Medicine Hat" 1t was in
January. and the thermometer was about
. deg. below zero, hut the wind blew al
the rate of 30 miles an hour. l was trav.
cling with a half-breed guide and dog.
sleigh. We upset the sleigh, got the dogs
and ourselves under it as well as we
could, wrapped the furs around us, and
let it blow away. The snow soon piled
over us, until we had an an irregular
wall a quarter of a mile long and 10 feet
high on each side of US next morning
when the blizzard abated. This may sur.
prise YOU, but a mound 6 inces high is
enough TO enable the snow to lodge and
pile up until it forms a blockade miles
long on the prairIes. AS for the dogs, We
fed them on fish. We gave each dog &
fish at the end OF the days journey. FISH
are light to carry, and the dogs like them
We can, too, il near a lake, always get &
fresh supply by cutting through the ICE
/ and putting bait down the hole.