Morning journal and courier., 1894-06-08
HOW CLIMATES CHANGE.
ssA Murray Tells the Sto- ry of Climatic Changes in Historic Times.

"Adfrondackn Murray Tells the Sto-
 ry of Climatic Changes in Historic
 Times.
 From the Boston Globe
 It Is a matter of knowledge to many men and women born in New Enslsnd that the summers are longer-as measured by the heated term-and the winters warmer than they were a half century ago, and that this result has been reached by slow ly but surely operating causes; and this slow but sure change in the climate of the country is one of momentous interest not only to the naturalist. but to the average citizen as well, for should 1t continue, vast changes would follow in the industries and products of the country, as we'll ss In lis hygienic conditions. It would not be sn unprecedented experience If the northern
 half of the American continent was pass ing through 6 climatic change of so posi-
 tive a sort as to become memorable in the
 history of the globe. For, while scientific observation and records are of too recent a period to supply us with adequate data
 for intelligent judgment Es 10 it, neverthe-
 less literature is filled with evidencs bear
 ing directly upon the point, snd So implicit
 in its nature and so emphatic in ifs itsra-
 ton as to be unimpeschAble. As most Americans are too busy to know much of the past, it may be interesting 10 recall a few of the passages in ancient writings which might be quoted in enforcement of our suggestion.
 The land of Palestine Is certainly not to day A wintry country. But thirty or more centuries SEQ an ancient poet wrote:
 "Hsst thou entered into the treasure of the snopi Or has thou seen the treasures of
 the hailf 0at of whcss womb came the
 feel and the hoary frost of heaven, who
 hath gendsred iti The waters are hidden
 as with g solid rock. and the face of the deep is frozsn." Such, evidently, wEs the
 the Aidisni,es thirty centuries ago. And David, writing several centuries later, gives the following description of intense winter weather: "He gtvsth snow like wool. He scattereth the hosr frosf like ashes. He casteth forth bis ice like nor | tels. Who can stand before his eoloF' Suoh is the account of the climate 10 the land of Palestine twenty eight and thirty centuries SEQ. But, instead of snow, hail. ice with the tolidity of rock and froz-n sea, the inhabitants of that country today live in 8 hoi, sultry climate, in which snow and Ice are never ssen- The climate of It. sly, ss 1t was of old time, and the great change which has come to It, are not be- yond the students knoEledge. Yirsil was both a poet and a skilled sgricuiturist, and in his "Georsics" he often gives d. rections for the security of young cattle against the dspgerou. effects cf ice and snow and periods of intensely cold weAth- er Ris directions were for the neiehbor- | hood of Msntua and Naples. and when speaking of Calsbris, the most southern and hottest part of Italy, he Alludss to the freezing of the large rivers aud streams ss | e thing to be expected annually. Nor does
 he stand alone in his wiinsss as 10 this
 matter, for Pliny, Juvenal and other su. thors of their time speak of Ice and snow
 ss prevalent iu all parts of Italy, while Eiiap. if we remember correctly. deyo'es whole chapter to the giving of specific directions of how to hsh for cells when