New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-06
A DRl-AIR CARNIVAL.

Northwestern papers arc beginning to TEEN
with accounts of the ice palace soon TO be opened
in ST. Paul The same sort of winter carnival
as has been held there for the last three or four
wears will be INDUCED in the palace will be as cold,
the toboggan slide as frosty and refreshing and
the open-air skating rink as breezy and appetiz-
ing as ever There is feeling OF security when
skating on the surface of Minnesota lake or river
not always felt in other places; there are no
holes in the ice.
According TO the papers the carnival is to be the
grandest ever held. The palace will DO large and
handsome, the slides long and steep the Ice hard
and smooth; there will be an encampment OF real
Indians, genuine reindeer viii abound Russian
sleighs and equipments will be seen on all sides,
ice bears and snow buffaloes will be set up; there
will be imposing torchght parades King Boreas
will arrive in state, imitation white bears will
march in the streets, and the management has not
vet wholly given up the hope of securing piece OF
the true north pole TO place on exhibition Every
body will wear blanket suits exclusively come
six to eight suits apiece, to be worn all at once like
the several LAYERS of bark on birch tree, being
considered about right Fur overcoats Will be
worn but little in the house and only on the cold
est days.
There will also be great number OF snowshoe
clubs both the Indian and Scandinavian shoe be-
ing used The Indian snowshOe is not much differ-
ent from the ordinary tennis racket OF CIVILIZATION
and the difficulty experienced in using 1t is that
one shoe will catch on the other and precipitate
the wearer into space. St Paul men have been
seen 10 revolve like the aywheel Of Corlss
engine when first putting on this variety OF shoe
and starting to RUN. Scandinavian shoes are only
some three or four inches wide and seven or eight
feet long. They are made of light wood and are
To- oh fbn Ira nd
vantage of the ST. Paul man is for one Of them to
| start ahead for Chicago and the other back for
| Minneapolis.
| The St Paul papers have begun their regular
winter series Of editorials on the extreme dryness
| Of the Minnesota air. 1t seems that the air Is 20
dry than Won do not feel the cold. Take day,
for instance these writers argue, when the mercury
stands forty degrees below zero, with a clear sky
and no suspicion Of moisture in the air; you do not
notice the cold-they assert In point OF TACT
they are right you do not notice the cold; 1t 10
| after you have been carried into warm ROOM are
surrounded by anxious friends when the doctor Is
applying restoratives-in short, 1t is when you re-
qain consciousness that you are first convinced
! that il is a cold day. The Irshman's fall from the
| fourth story was not unpleasant; IL was the sud-
den stop on the stone pavement that he could not
recommend.
| Nev-York man who visited St. Paul friend
last winter tells little story which may not De
ont NJ Mace 1t seems that his friend, like other
residents of that city, much given to praise
of the dry air. The air was so dry that you did
not feel the cold Even while drawing his cloth
| overcoat over his flannel suit and covering that
with his wolfslSin overcoat and beaver cape he
kept talking of the dry atmosphere; and while
adjusting his sealslIin cap over his woolcn skull
CAD and putting on his fur ear and nose protectors
and drawing on his kid knit buckskin and dog
skin gloves and, in fact, till he pulled down his
sealskin mask and thus interrupted the How OF
conversation, he continued to explain how his
friend would not feel the cold in St Paul any more
when the thermometer was twenty below zero than
be would in New-York when 1t was twenty above
| Our air is dry most extremely dry were his
last words as he slipped hot brick into each
pocket and started out for short walk with his
| New-York friend
Twenty minutes later physicians were working
| with them in a neighboring drug store attempting
70 thaw out their extremties and start circulation
Tho New-Yorker was first to regain consciousness.
After some time the ST. Paul man opened his eyes.
He looked about aimlessiy for moment, then liked
his eaze ON the face Of his friend. He did not
sneak for full minute; then his lips moved.
Brown he sd feebly, Il" our air is sometimes
little too dry"