St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-23

times below 80 deg. Mercury falls be-
low zero frequently in March and No
vember. and has been as low as 26 deg
below zero in March, and "a deg below
zero in November. The coolest winter
was in 1S74-75, when the mean tempera-
ture was 2 deg; the coolest winter
| month was February, 1875, when the
mean temperature was 4 deg below zero :;
and the coolest day was Jan. 81, 1888,
with minimum temperature of Al deg
below zero. The warmest winter was
lS77-7S, with mean temperature of %
deg; the warmest winter month was
December. 1862. with a mean tempera-
ture of Sc deg; and the warmest winter
day was in February, 1S41, with a maxi
mum temperature OF go deg.
The mean temperature for the last
three winters, commencing with 1S8S-S9,
was respectively 20 degrees, Is degrees
and 10 degrees. For four successive
winters, commencing with 1889, the
mean temperature was respectively 10
degrees, Is degrees. 10 degrees and Is
degrees; and for the three successive
winters, commencing with 1854, the
mean temperature was respectively IS
degrees, 20 degrees and 20 degrees.
This does not indicate any climatic
change.
Mrs. Flora Haines Loughead, Cali
fornia author, has undertaken novel
and unique enterprise. This is the
serial publication of her own short
stories, one of which will be issued
every month. in the form of small books
printed on heavy paper, with broad
margins. This publication will be called
the Gold Dust SerIes." and will be
published by G. A. Murdoch & Co., of
San francisco, whose name is a guaran-
tee for the excellence and taste with
which the small volumes will be put
forth. The first of the series. now in
press, is The Man From Nowhere"
and it will be placed simultaneously
on the Eastern and Western market,
being handled in New York by the
Frederick A. Stokes company, of Fifth
avenue. Mrs. LOughead is the author
of The Man Who Was Guilty." a novel
published by Hougton, Miffiin " Co.
several years ago. Her story, The
Abandoned Claim" won the $500 prize
offered last year by the Mcclure syndi-
cate for the best serial story. This latter
will be brought out this fall in book
form by her Boston publishers. But it
IS upon her short stories, now for the
first time printed in book form, that her
reputation mainly rests in the West.
The Junior Partners" is the title of
a remarkably strong and realistic tenn
perance story, about to be issued by j.
Stuart 4 Co.. San Francisco, Cal. The
author was prominent merchant of
Chicago, who shows, in a dramatic wav,
the ruin of a moderate drInker and his
reformation in an insane asylum. The
book is transcript of real life. and full
of interest.
"A Chicago Bible Glass, "by Ursula n.
Nesteheld, Is in the form Of expositions
OF the Scripture passages complied as
the basis of the main doctrines of Chris
tlanity. The teacher of the class does
not follow In any of the approved theo-
logical ways, but interprets in the line
OF what is termed modern thought, but
In advance of most of the thinkers that
hold the fundamental facts OF the ap-
proved theolOgies. Adam was not an
individual, but type of the race. All
are Adams. The birth and life of Christ
had no miraculous features. The work
will be found entertaining by those in
terested in the subject.