Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-01-05


Ear muffs, 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
danced a merry hornpipe about the
| thermometer and laughed loud he-he
over the mercury's struggle to rise from
| the low state into which 1t had fallen.
| A brisk wind put double edge upon
the cold and brought out humanity
| goose flesh.
| The Chicago weather man says he
fears the winter will be very cold one.
It has started out at a terrible pace, but
IL is nobody's fault but your own IL you
lived the summer like grasshopper
and are not ready for 1t. The muskrat
predicted tight season and built MS
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 withered
the lingering roses and sent the swal-
low south a month before his due. Nuts
fell before the boys knew they were
ripe and the forests grew fantastic be-
fore their season. All these things you
might have protited 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 go into
winter quarters and hibernate for Blk
months.
Such weather makes fellow wish he
had lived in the carboniferous age or
been silurian in the good old days
about 700, 900 b. c., when this part oi
the earth was being baked and tropical
MONKEYS sat idly on the logs in the
lagoons and chatted neiGhborly with
the dodoes when palms and figs anC
; banyan trees fiourished by the river
bank and the snake built his nest there
t in. and was contented to occupy the
, sphere for which he was created; wheI
> it was summer the year around, and th'
t grasping plumber was yet unmade
| when nine -tenths of the land was waite
D and there was no tax on 1t.
Regular Peary Weather.
In Chicago the lake is frozen from
the shore to the breakwater and pile'
deep as far out as the crib. But twic
7 last winter did the phenomenon happen
: = and that was along in January, whe
: the mercury goes down into its bulb an
. fingers until early spring and ground
y hod day.
!. At present the ice there is sufficient
= thick to furnish skating, and in day 9
a so it will be almost possible to glid
from the Auditorium 10 the World
: Fair grounds and make record for
= splendid story to tell next August. IN
ponds in the parks are frozen to tn
bottoms, and two hours is enough
!, make hard coating when flooded.
Z The man on the roof who is paid
: find out such information says: 1t
: friRid from Medicine Hat to Mobile, an
the only warm spot in the whole couI
q try has been crowded south from day
= day, until it has entirely disappeared @
the earth.
ii Worst storm I'm Years.
J. The cold weather seems to be genera
u and in many places is the worst o.
o perienced in years. In Kansas wire
p are down and trains are either movir
" very cautiously by time card or else a
Oh stuck in the snow. All OF the traiI
Is are late from one TO ten hours, and
many roads the time of arrival OF trail
is reported indefinite. The railroad
report the heaviest storms to the nor
>. in Iowa and Northern Kansas. Freig
trains are tied up at almost every poin
and 1t is impossible to make any sort
time against the wind and snow wi
W heavily loaded trains. Rumors
ia OF wrecks on several of the roads we
10 circulated, but owing to the failure
o. the wires IL is impossible TO either co..
~ ~ firm or deny the reports.
"a IN In exposed places at Davenport. low
" " the mercury dropped to IL below zer
w People are crossing the Mississippi
~ foot and by morning the ice bridge W
~ hold teams, and at Preston, Iowa, Z
" thermometer showed "a below zero.
The Ohio river at Bellaire, Ohio,
20 frozen over for the first time since 1Ss
70 Amsterdam, N. Y. reports the wealth
u in the Mohawk Valley to be the colde
,n of the season. 1t was IA below at Clio
10 erville and there is but little snow.
A storm of sleet and snow of unusu
severity came down on that section
20 the sunny South in the vicinity OF CaI
- den, Ark. The mercury, as cons
~ Quence, dropped 40 degrees In tV
~ hours. The weather is decidedly t
~ codest of the year.
=. The holidays wcrnd up at Wilmin
VI VI ton, n. c. with young blizzard.
II heavy sleet-storm prevailed, and snt
~ ~ covers the ground to a depth OF two
20 20 ches, beatiag Wilmington's snow re
=. ord for several years.