The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-01-05
BELOW THE ZERO MARK
EXTREME COLD WEATHER is
UPON US.
Thermometers Register from 10 to IS
Degrees Below-RailroaslsI Badly Blocked
and Much Suffering Caused by the I'm
precedented Cold Snap.
Twill BE II Severe Winter.

Ear mui1s, skates and knit socks are
right in it. SO to speak. The cold weather
has made business exceedingly good
with them. They joined hands and
dancel merry Eornripe about The
thermometer and laughed a lou! he-he
over he mercury's struggle to riso from
the low stat" into which it had fallen.
brisk wind put a double edge upon
the cold and brought out humanity's
"goosetiesh."
The Chicago weather man saws he
fears the winter will be IL very cold one.
j. has started out at a terrible pace, but
it is nohody's fault hut .onr own if you
lived the summer like Il Sras5ho; per
and are no eady for it. The muskrat
predicted Il tight season and built h S
house twice the regular tnicknts S., and
any corn broker will tell YOU there Wee
twice as many shurks on the ear tn $
wear than usual. Early frosts withercd
the lingering roses and sent the swai
low south a month before his due. Nuts
fell before the boys knew they We're
rip and the forests grew iantast'c be-
fore their seas. n. AL these things you
might have proited by and had your
bins full and hams in TIE cellar and
bushels Of ieets and turn ps and fruits.
and thus have been prepared to go into
winter quarters and hibernate for six
months.
Such weather makes a fellow wish he
had lived in the carboniterous age or
been n siluran in the good old days
about 7n0,nh Il. & when this part of
the earth was being baked and tropical
monkeys sat idly on the logs in the
lagoon3 and chattca nci yhborly with
the Godoes; when palms and figs and
b nyan trees fiourished 10y tho river
bank and the snake built his nest there
in. and was contented to occupy the
sphere for which he was created; when
ii was summer the year around, and the
graSping plumber was yet unrEade;
when nine-tcnths of the land was water
and there was no tax on it.
Regular Peary Weather.
In Chicago the lake is frozen from,
the shore to the breakwater and piled
deep as ar out as the crib. But twice
last winter did the phenomenon happen,
and that was along in January. when
the mercury goes down into it's tulb and
fingers until early spring and ground
hod day.
At resent the ice there is sufficiently
thick to furnish skating, and in day o:
SO it will be almost possible to glide
from the Auditorium 10 tho Worli'e
Fair grounds and make Il record for q
splendid story 10 tell next August. The
ronds in the parks are frozen 70 tho
bottoms, and two ho"rs is enough tt
make hard coating when flooded
The man on the roof who is paid tt
find out such information says: 1T is
frigid from Medic ne Hat to Mobile. and
the only warm spot in the whole coun-
try has teen crowded south from day &c
day, until it has entirely disappeared of
the earth"
Worst Storm in Years.
The cold weather seems to be general
| and in many places is the worst eX'
| perienced in years. In Kansas wire:
| are down and trains are either MOVING
very cautiously by time card or else are
| stuck in the snow. All OF the train:
| are late from one TO ten hours, and OF
many roads the time Of arrival of train
| is reported indefinite" The railroads
| report the heaviest storms to the nortl
| in Iowa and Northern Kansas. Frelgh
trains are tied up at almost every point
and it is impossible TO make any sort o
| time against the wind and snow will
heavily loaded trains. Eumors o
of wrecks on several OF the roads wer
circulated. but owing to the failure o
the wires it is impossible to either con
firm or deny the reports.
In exposed places at Davenport, Iowa
the mercury dropped to II below zero
| People are crossing the Mississippi ol
foot and by morning the ice bridge vii
! hold teams, and at Preston, Iowa, tn
thermometer showed u below zero.
The Ohio river at Bellaire. Ohio, i
frozen over for the first time since 1885
Amsterdam. n. y. reports the weathe
in the Mohawk Valley to b. the coides
of the season. 1t was II below at GLOW
| ervilIe and there is but little snow.
4 storm Of sleet and snow Of unusua
severity came down on that section G
the sunny South in the vicinity of Cam
den, Ark. The mercury, as conse
quence, dropped 40 degrees in tw
hours. The weather is decidedly tn
coolest OF the year.
The holidays wound up at Whining
ton, n {. with young blizzard.
heavy sleet-storm prevailed. and sno'
covers the ground to a depth of two in
ches, beating Wilmington snow rec
ord for several years.