The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-18
IS A GENUINE BOWLER.
BIlzz ,rd Makes The rhcrEname ter Drop Dow
Below Freezing.

That blizzard which suorted into town
yesterday came from Wyoming. 1t was
one thousand miles wide. about mile
high, and galloped along at thirty miles
an hour.
Last evening at o'clock the thermome-
tor was cuddling AROUND the 81 degrees
mark and Doctor johnson says that before
o'clock this morning the mercury will be
hugging 16 degrees.
1t is the first howler of hyperborean
parentage to swoop down on Kansas this
fall. The stove men were kept on the
jump the livelong day. Everybody snak-
ed his overcoat out of the closet and bund-
led around town with q smell OF camph or
and moth preventative trailing behind
him for ten feet.
Wichita suffered very little yesterday in
comparison with other points. At Moore
head, Mimi, is was only two degrees
above zero. AT Dodge City it was twenty
six degrees above. Denver was IN the
midst of a heavy snow storm.
| a few days ago warm breeze started
F., out from the Gulf Of Mexico on an excur-
sion. 1t pranced off on a grand allemande
| left of the United States. Circling up the
Atlantic coast, it swept into Canada.
| danced across the continent, got mixed up
with whiff of cold air from Alaska. and,
| after executing a sort of dans Gu ventre In
| Wyoming, shrieked down on Kansas
1t is loaded with frigdity clear to the
brin. As there is no humidity In the
atmosphere there will be no snow. The
wind did not die down at sunset last even
| ing but increased in velocity as the night
Wore on.
In this connection the weather record s
show some queer things. For years II
has been common belief, and an equally
common observance that the wind In
Kansas almost invariably iulled at sunset
Ii the machine which measures the speed
of the wind is reliable this belief Is
founded on imagination and is in error
Daily measurements show that IN almos
all instances the wind has kept mp Its gal
at even-tide. 1t has also been supposed
that the wind did not blow as much dur
ing the night rs it did in the daytime
The records smash this too. AS matte
of fact the wind blows harder at nigh
right along than it does in the daytime
The fact that dust is not so much l!
evidence at night may account for thi
mistake.
For years the Kansas poets have beel
twanging the strings TO the glories OF tn
calm. peaceful evenings aud quiet nishts
Right along the wind has been clustering
about apd roaring about and wooping
up generally in the black bosom or tn
night in spite of the poets. The atmos
phere does not settle down in Kansas a
twilight at all. On the contrary nothln
| pleases il more than to turn itself loose Il
the sweet serenity of moonlit night
Nothing fills the Kansas zephyr with $
much bliss as to be able to rip along in III
dark and turn everything it meets wrong
side out-includng poets. The kansa
breeze is howler from Howlerviile and
little thing like night cannot stop IL.
was on the townsite before Bill Greifer
stein and it is not going to change II
. | habits for lot of sentimental and uu
, scientific rhymsters.
This has not been good year for wind
DR.. johnson says that it has not traveie
ever forty miles an hour at any time
the twelfth month. He says the hardes
and swiftest blow he has recorded Il
Wichita took place on March q, lo9o. A
high noon on that day the air wac skim
ming along at fifty-four miles per houl
.. 1t is a matter of his tory too that it too
about eighteen chimneys per skim.
According to Dr. Johnson the presen
blizzard will be at its height at o'clocl
this morning. From that hour on tn
weather will moderate and the :aercur
will sneak back to its accustomed piat
, before night.