Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-01-23
REALLY COLD.
Talk with a Canadian About the
Weather in Manitoba.
How the Farmer Dresscs-what He Eats
His Daily Life-Thc Intense Heat of tho
summer-Kecping Warm
In Winter.

"Cold!" said Canacian from Win
nipeg to a representative of the New
York 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 at this season
of the year that the cows give ioe-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 allwear furs The police
men at Winnipeg have buffalo coats
down to their heels, and every man,
rich or poor, in the Northwest must
wear fur cap. have known the cold
to penetrate the skull of man who
went out one day with an ordinary felt
hat, and brain-fever carried him off in
three days. The streets of Winnipeg
Just now are full of men who move
about like animals In menagerie-cages.
You see nothing but beaver and otter,
and Persian lamb. and seal, and mink
and raccoon, and marten and muskrat.
and all the furs that ever adorned the
GothS or Ostro-Goths, who first brought
the choice furs of the North to Southern
and Central Europe. And the sleiphs
are covered with black and brown bear.
and grizzly skins and buffalo robes,
while an occasional Astrakhan gives
evidence of luxury and costly furs.
Without furs we could not live in win
ter up in that country. We not only
use them as articles of luxury, as the
Chinese use the ermine, sable or the
fiery fox, but we are obliged to use
them rs articles of necessity. And ey-
cry piece of skin is utilized. The hardy
voyageurs and coureurs du bois dres,
themselves in bucksin with head-dresses
OF wolf, lynx, badger or wildcat hides,
while silver and blue-fox furs NAV be
seen on the heads of the rich. A man
must be very hard up in Winnipeg who
uoes not own fur coat. cap and gloves
OF mittens. "A walk through the Streets
may be turned into lesson in natural
history by those who read as they run.
In factsa great many people buy more
expensive furs than they can afford.
Winter is our season of extravaganza,
and in our attempt to possess costly
furs we often go ruinously beyond our
means. sa4.f EaG I-sf4'N
'As for the cold" he continued, "it
is severe, sbut we do not feel it as much
as you might fancy. We are dressed
for it, and our houses arc built to resist
1t. All our houses have double doors
and doublef windows. Fires are, of |
course, kept going night and day. We
are not much out of doors in winter.
and yet nearly everybody gets frostbit-
ten Mt times. When we see n man on
the street with q white spot on his
cheek or nose we stop and point to the
afiicted part. He will understand at
once. If the weather is very cold we
can't speak to each other very well,
Tor our mustaches freeze to our boards
and form crust of ice over our mouths.
we must thaw this off before we can
TAX. On the plains, sometimes, man
is frozen to death, but this does not Oft
en- happen. 1t is no joke to be caught
IN oiizzard on the prairies. II hap
pened TO me once little north of
Medicine Hat 1t was in January.
ana the thermometer was about five de-
grees below zero, but the wind blew at
lhe rate OF thirty miles an hour. was
travelling with half-breed guide and n ,
aog sleigh. We upset the sleigh, got
the dogs and ourselves under it as well
as we could, wrapped the fiIrs around
us, and let II blow away. The snow
soon piled over US until we had an ir- +.
and ten feet birb on ZACH % a;da ipng
next morning wien tbe bI;zz.rd .duI aho,a =, as
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