Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-01-29

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eoMR FAaExKxAR Talk
Asa rule, whsn two men o. fwt
women meet and begin 70 talk aboml
shs wsaahaF, saying How cold It i.
e.las Howvery suliry last niehtls
. Il rains agninl'' . Don't you think i
vii clear up7~ and like Important =
orirnas( y remarks, il i . pretty good
dgn that they haven's anyth ng else 70
ak about or not much q anything
else 70 say. SoW il would be safe 70
wager that some lady reader, Or maybe
some one o. the masculine gender, vii
speak out vita Wei, what else - be
DONG bat talk about the weather-run
out Of familiar talk, except about the
weafher." whether Il il from that
eause or no that Il just what we are
going 10 talk about this time. Iaugh
or no laugh; 80, Il ready, let our lady
reader or that one q the masculine
gender laugh now and have done with
Il for promi NOT 70 write anything
20 Iaugh aboat--intsntionally.
The big Thermometer hung on the
south porch and astoniahed my eyes
with the mercury down four degrees
below zero at 7 O'Clock am. on satur-
DAY. the I4th day Of January, 1858,
near Kent, in King county, Washing
con Territory, latitude f7s 80. in the
Puget sound basin, where flowers do
Gloom all the year round, /" tsome-
umesl aud where autumn, winter
and spring are a. Of one season" !
tsls rather fat tcold, tool a. looked
having frnt taken the dairy thermOm-
star 10 ind the mercury out Of sight,
and having only the week before writ
tsn about Mrs. Whitney's nineteen Va
reties Of flowers which she had cut
from her garden, then growing in the
omen air, on Christmas eve, and had
SAINT me. The thought Of these made
ne 4shiver,r and l declared this was
,heeogdest weather had seen in Wash
lpston Territ. ~ during be thirsy-fye
wears We had lived acre. Jane said !
was mistaken; that Il was once down
70 seven degrees At Puyallup, but !
always viii believe that was worth
less. lying Thermometer. hbeling this
climate, and that four degrees below Is
As low as we care to believe.
The "eold snap" CfOr that Is what
it was) had spent lbs force before the
week was gone, and our guardian an
gel, the chinook wind. had again as
srmed the ascendency; so now, as !
write this 22d Of January, the Their
mornetar registers 40 degrees above
aad the snow and frost are gradually
leaving rs. OF course, all this Is writ
ten especially that our own people may
know the facts, and incidentally that
the numerous distant readers may
know lust what We do have " out there
in washington Territory" sometimes.
This incident should tesch US = lesson
and serve for more than merely
theme for familiar gossip. told John,
when the cold began, 70 increase the
grain ration FIRST a hundred and finally
nearly two hundred pounds a day 10
the cows. We had 10 increase with
the fattening cattle a. well. The st
HES were ali one thin board covering,
and not close a. that. II these had
been double, 30 as to be warm, and
arrangements made for heating the
Water the cattle drank, no extra iced
or AZ least, but iittie-wOuld have
been necessary. As il was, We must
needs supply the waste Of animal heat
w,sh feed. and could only make show
Of heating the water the stock drank.
straightway, though, We made prep
arx.ions for heating ten barrels at a
time. and this morning had the salts
faction OF having all We wanted and
plenty left. This heater cost just Sl7,
and think now IS cents day viii
heat the water for eighty head OF
stock, so We may never need to offer
/, a the cattle cold, o. under any tenn
,srs,, IRE found 10 be best. To make
.his hes, n We bought heavy sheet iron
Iour feet n 'ide BY ten feet long; then
am, - The n Nill for lumber for the
,,de. three inch - thick, sixteen wide
md ten feet lonk. The ends were
of, sled-rs'naer fashion, 50
hat when the thing Vac finished Il
looked like a boat" rs oha o. the
neighbors said. Two straight brick
walls, eight inches high. eleven ieet
long, q little dug out in the center sor
= fire pit, an old piece OF l3-inch pipe
Tor 3 smoke-stack, and the heater wa
Last night. after supper,
Abe put in -four sticks of wood
banked the FIRE pit, and this morning
Bacon said the water was yet As
warm as they wanted o wash the
cows with"
An inch is said to be a good deal. on
or OF a mans nose. but one would
think two or four inches would not BE-
much as 10 the depth Of a cows stall.
Yet four inches just makes the differ
ence as between a clearly or fOUled
stable, and with ii the difference as be-
tween Clearly OF foul milk, unless ex-
traordInary care is taken and much
time spent. John complained that the
stable on the other side all the time
vas good deal dirtier, and it took
a long time to milk there. So finally
We set about to fiud the cause. Abe
set the EtAnsils, when the AOor was re-
laid, so that il was just two niche
longer between the stansils and The
gutter than it was on the other side. =