The true northerner., 1893-01-04
ICE THRONED AS KING.
COLD WEATHER HAS FINALLY
COME IN EARNEST.
Mercury Seeks the Bottom of the Bulb and
shivering Humanity Seeks the Fire
Storm Seems To Have Been General
Much Suffering Reported.
Below the Zero Mark.

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right in It. so TO speak. The cold weather
has made business exceedingly good
with them. They joined hands and
danced merry hornpipe about the
thermometer and laughed a loud he-he
over the mercurys struggle to rise from
the low state into which it had fallen.
A brisk wind put a double edge upon
the cold and brought out humanity's
goose flesh.
The Chicago weather man says he
fears the winter will be very cold one.
1t has started out at a terrible pace, but
it is nobody's fault but your own IL you
lived the summer like a grasshopper
and are not ready for it. The muskrat
predicted a tight season and built his
house twice the regular thickness, and
any corn broker will tell you there were
twice as many shucks on the ear this
year than usual. Early frosts wthered
the lingering roses and sent the swal-
low south q month before his due. Nuts
fell before the boys knew they were
ripe and the forests grew fantastic be-
fore their seas n Al these things you
might la o proiited by and had your
bins full and hams in the cellar and
bushels of beets and turnips and fruits.
and thus have been prepared to 60 into
winter quarters and hibernate for six
months.
Such weather makes fellow wish he
had lived in the carboniferous age or
been n silurlan in the good old days
about 100000 b. c., when this part OF
the earth was being baked and tropical
monkeys sat idly on the logs in the
lagoon5 and chatted neighborly with
the dodoes; when palms and figs and
l. hnI nv ha nj ~
bank and the snake built his nest there
in, and was contented to, occupy the
sphere for which he was created; when
it was summer the year around, and the
grasping plumber was yet unmade;
when nine-tenths 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 lar out as the crib. But twice
last winter did the phenomenon happen,
and that was along in January, when
the mercury goes down into its bulb and
fingers until early spring and ground
hod day.
At present the ice there is sufficiently
thick to furnish skating, and in day or
so it will be almost possible to glide
Fair grounds and make a record for q
ponds in the parks are frozen to the
bottoms, and two hours is enough to
make hard coating when flooded.
The man on the roof who is paid to
find out such information says: 1T ia
frigid from Medic ne Hat to Mobile. and
the only warm spot in the whole coun-
try has been crowded south from day 10
day, until it has entirely disappeared off
the earth.
Worst storm i'm Years.
The cold weather seems to be general,
and in many places is the worst ex-
perienced in years. In Kansas wires
are down and trains are either moving
very cautiously by time card or else are
stuck in the snow. All OF the trains
are late from one TO ten hours, and on
many roads the time of arrival of trains
is reported Indefinite The railroads
report the heaviest storms 10 the north
in Iowa and Northern Kansas. Freight
trains are tied up at almost every point,
and it is impossible TO make any sort Of
time against the wind and snow with
heavily loaded trains. Rumors Of
of wrecks on several Of the roads were
circulated, but owing to the failure Of
the wires 1t is impossible 10 either con-
firm or deny the reports.
In exposed places at Davenport, Iowa.
the mercury dropped to Il below zero.
People are crossing the Mississippi on
foot and by morning the ice bridge will
hold teams, and at Preston, Iowa, the
Thermometers showed ~ below zero.
The Ohio river at Bellaire, Ohio, is
frozen over for the first time since 1885.
Amsterdam, n. Y. reports the weather
in the Mohawk Valley 10 b the coldest
OF the season. 1t was IA below at Glov-
erville and there is but little snow.
A storm of sleet and snow Of unusual
severity came down on that section OF
the sunny South in the vicinity OF Cam
den, Ark. The mercury, us q conse-
0uence, dropped 40 degrees in two
hours The weather is decidedly tho
coolest of the year.
The holidays wCrnd up at Whining
ton, n. G. with young blizzard. A
heavy sleet-storm prevailed, and snow
covers the ground to n depth of two in
ches, beatiag Wilmington 5 snow rec
ord for several yeals.