Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-03
Good Hot Weather Heading.

Frederick Schwatka in New York Times.l
 Seventy-one degrees below zero means lO30 below freezing point. It was in the Arctic regions, not far from Backs great fish liver, when the author was conducting a homeward sledge journey to Hudsons Bay in the depth of an Arctic winter--November, December, January, February and March that he experienced it. Severe weather that is, intensely cold-had set in just before Christmas, in 1879, the thermometer sinking down to 65s and 690 below zero, and never getting above 600 below, and we were hay ing very hard time with our sleighing along the river, our camps at night almost in sight of those we had left in the morning, so close were they together and so slowly did we labor along Reindeer, on which we were relying for our daily supply of food, were not found near the river, and being seen some ten or fifteen miles back from it, I determined to leave it's bed and strike straight for home in Hudson's Bay.
 We had been gone three or four days, and we ascended the higher levels the ther mometer commenced lowering, and on the Sd of January, 1880, at o'clock in the after noon, reached 710 below zero, the coldest we experienced on our sledge journey of nearly year in length, and the coldest ever encoun- tered by white men travelling out of doors for that day we moved camp some ten or twelve miles to the southeastward. The day was not at all disagreeable, I must say, until long toward the early night, when slight zephyr, the merest kind of motion of the wind that would hardly ruffie the leaves on tree, or even sufficient to cool the face on a warm day, sprang up from the sonthward, and slight and insignificant as it was, it cut to the bone every part of the body that was exposed, and which fortunately was only the face from the eyebrows to the chin and about half of the cheeks. We turned our backs toward it as much as possible, and es- peeially after we had gotten into camp and got to work building our snow houses and digging through the thick ice of the lake for fresh water, and so lazily did our breath that congealed into miniature clouds float away to the northward, like the little, light cirrus clouds of summer sky, that we knew well enough how terribly cold it must be without looking at the thermometer which stood at TT below zero, Fahrenheit
 It is not so much the intensity of the cold expressed in degrees on the thermometer, that determins the disagreeableness of Arctic winter weather as it is the force and relative direction of the wind have found it far pleasanter with the thermometer at 5Oo 60o, or even 70' below zero, Fahrenheit, with lit tie or no wind blowing at the time, than to face rather stiff breeze when the little tell tale showed 500 warmer temperature. Even an Arctic acclinated white man facing good strong wind at 200 or 250 below zero is almost sure to find the wind freeze the nose and cheeks, and the thermometer does not have to sink over 4 or 5 to induce the Els quimaux themselves to keep within their snug snow-houses under the same oircum- stances, unless want or famine demands their presence in the storm. With plenty in the larder for all the mouths, brute and human, none of them venture out in such weather,
 At the annual meeting of the Connecticut State division League of American Wheel men in Hartford it was voted to have a State parade in Hartford September 8, the second day of the Hartford race meeting W. H. Thomas, of New Haven, was presented with league pin in appreciation of his services as secretary and treasurer for year and a half. CharlesP Kellogg, of Hartford, was chosen his successor. W. H. Hale was ap- pointed league counsel for New Haven. At the Hartford race meeting $2,000 in prizes will be offered Robert F. Way, box ], ,O25, Hartford, will receive entries.
 In the Litchfeld county league, the Litch- fields defeated the Winsteds of Winsted, 5 to 4, eleven innings. At Torrington, Satur- day, the county league club defeated the Echoes of Waterbury, 20 to II.