Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-02-12
MILD WINTERS.
THIS Is NOT The FIRST ONB THIS COUN-
TRY has HAD.
Flowers Bloomsd Before Now at Christmas and
New Years S9ms Qlssr Sorts Of Weather
Around Loose always.

Those who think that tue climate here
abouts has changed bscause W have 50 far
had little or no winter weather, should
cot be too rash in juWpjDg al conclusions
The West hes bad quite as remarkably
high slu1 Of temperature Gs We On the
Atlantic coast this year, but there, a. here,
the coalition has ia counterpart in the
past.
Daring d cembsr. 1877, says the ST..
| Louis Republic, q Western newspaper re-
marked that not sincs 1887 has any De-
csmber season been known 20 mild. Lawn
grasses are growing fusly and daudeliOns
are 10 bloom navigation 's perfectly open
Commenting on this Mr.. Ve1nor, the
weather prophet, said: Now, again, in
1881, We have 10 record very similar
state OF affairs for the same month of the
year" Tue "Ohri, tnss weather" dis
patches ia the RepUJlie OF the 26.h nit f,
especially the ore from S. PAM, MINI. 4,
0he would think were without parallel
Investigation proves the reverse.
The st. Paul Pioneer Press Of Dsce mber
%, 1877, contained an editO Ial of which
the following is an extrsci: This re-
markable weather Knocked the Old Set
tier Association on their bsam ends. = =
Here il Is the 22i of D.cembrr with the
mercury danciog on its silver heels to the
music OF so degrees above in the shsd4
Ten boats OF the 81. Psnl Boat
Club, each occupied with scullers or crews
Of oarsmen, sporting upon the plscid boom
cf the ancestor of meanderiog streams
all this and more, too, Il the result of the
RENAL ksble weather which row prevails in
Minnesota This is fact worthy
of being placed on record for the benefi. Of
all coming investigation OF Gina ic facts
and theories in MionesOta "
At Ka,sss Ci'y the temperature Oh
Christmas Day, 1859, lacked three Gegrees
of being as high as Il was at st. Paul OF
Dee %, 1877. Olly one of the Re.
pUbiic's many dispatch teuders, the one al
L1ekp port; n. Y ever heard of warn
Christmas beioTe. He admits that Cnris,.
mas, 1877, was five degrees warmer than
the sc me day in 1889.
Bat the winter of 1878 is not the only
Ole d exceptional mildness II it was
The present warm spell would he sn thing
bat Encouraging 10 our neighbOrs OF the
Far SOUTH" the summer of 1878 hsvipp
been the year OF tbs great yellow fever
scourge; further on, however, it will BIZ
shown that mild winters aud an alter
msth OF p1s;ilence are in no way Goa.
ufc'ed.
The winter Of lS5l-1Ss2 was as phenOnl-
e1Al, as far as unreasonable weather wa.
concerned, as that Of 1878. o. Cnrist
mas Day, 1881, the mercury stood 1T from
As to 50 degrees above zero throughout the
Mississippi Valley, merging into summer
asat from the mouth of the Ohio south
ward. The day was clear sld bright,
si,h wind sonth to southwest. In Ohio,
Iudians, Illinois, Missouri. Iowa and Ne
braska the farmers plowed every month
during the winter. Toe lilac buds swell
"a into full leaf in Feb uary, 1852. In
nearly all the States namsd.
o. January 90. 1882, the best tested
Thermometers stood at ~ degrees above in
the morning, OF 81 degrees ia the after
noon, and did not fall bslow 80 degrees for
over 30 hours. February showed 81 day.
upon which the mercury rose above 40 in
the shade, ard upon 16 of these the tenn.
perature wss above 80 degrees some time
during the day On the 5h, 9th, l0sh,
18th, l2.h and 18th it marked 90 or above
and up,n o,e occasion, the 12;b, stood be
tween 20 and so degrees fJr five hours
The Thermometer responsible for this
seeming Inconsistency failed to reach the
high water mark Of February 10 sgain I'M
til after the end of The first week in jane,
with a single exception, Mag when i,
marked 50 mention this fec, for the
benefit O. the reader who may think the
instrument with which the readings were
taken one of the inferior grade, and in con
sequence very susceptible TO fluctuations
OF heat and cold.
Southern people ShO get nervous wher
they hear yellow f-vsr mentioned in COG
nection with the warm winter Of 1877 70,
can gain some consolation by watching
the charge which comes over the face Of
the Western ard Northern man when be
is Informed that the spriDg-Iks character
Of jimmy snd Februa.y, 1882 indirectly
blough, about the many cyclones and
prairie tRissers OF the summer follow
The winter of 1Sl5-16 was az remark
sh'e for it's unseas onAhle weather rs that OF
1878 1S77-7S lsSl-52, cr even that #
| ss9-90, which we are nov eri1yiag. E
8 shop. an intelligent old gentleman, who
we'd At Essex Mass at The time give
IRE following interesting facts concerning
".be year without summer" to The
the JanestOn Journal,
ID csmber, 1915. and JAuu1ry, 1916
we're very warm. Indeed, 30 mild that fires
were seldom lighted in our rooms. Feb
roary was also 80 mid as spring time,
Sith the exception Of one or two cod
DAYS. Marah was cold snd boisterous for
the irst half then mild to the middle Of
April. when winter sci in with ice and
deep SHOWS which continued until Juoe.
Joue was bitter cold, the coolest ever
known; frost, ice or snow almost
every night, Destroying almost everything
that frost could kill. Snow fell
10 inches deep in Vermont, New Hsmp-
shire, snd Msire three inches in the in
terror of New York State and in a part of
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, July
was cold and frcsy. Ice formed as thick
az window glass throughout New EGG
land. August Vas worse still.
Ice formed half-irch thick and killed 81
moet every green thing in THE country and
in E1rope. Corn fer seed 10
1917, that raised in 1915, cold for 81
b1shel."
Not until December, according TO Mr..
B shop, did the sun shine out warm like
spriug It seemed as if the seasons Lad
been entirely reversed.
II the mild winter Of 1Sl5.l6 brought
ahout year without summer, that ofls77-
q a scourgs of yellow fever, that Of 1881
- a season Of cyclonic fury, what may We
expect for the summer OF 1890 Abundant
crops, perhaps, ard sn ample opportunity
to fill the cOruucOpis.
MARTINS FERRY.
There was quite a number OF friends
Gathered AT the residence of Mrs. Charles