Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08

AOAS OOOAAA Y hSSp U Y was SuCu d
frosty freeze.
Now the man who made prediction, as his
solemn, firm conviction, of the biz
Yards last eviction from the North Da-
kota zone,
And the man who did the laughing, and SO
busy was in chatting the southerner,
has had to change the tenor of his tone.
For the south now has its inning, and is
grlnnlng, grimly grinning. while the
blizzard is beginning to embrac e us in
its grasp,
And it isn't half so funny, when the south
is warm and sunny, to SILVER shake
and chatter in the monsters frosty
clasp.
There's a moral in these stanzas-these
nasty e~xtravaganzas, when the south is
chilled and snowbound are not safest
to insure.
For the weather's very tickle and may have
a rod in pickle for the persons who i'm
agine that from billiards. they're Sc
cure.
Tho the blizzard oft may wander, here and
there and over yOnder, yet It isn't safe
to wager as to what may be its game.
And it isn't safe to boiler, for you bet your
bottom dollar, tho it may be late in
coming, it will get here just the same.
The man with the els it cold enough
for your" greeting, is abroad IN the land.
And, indeed, it must be admitted he has
the weather on his side. For the two
days last past, Boreas has been endeavor-
ing to make up for the mildness of the
early part of the winter season, by way
of equalizing things. How we'll he has
succeeded, n has but to intrude him
self into the whirl of flying snowtlakes,
and the biting, singing breeze, to dis
cover.
It ie, perhaps, the return of the biz
zard which recently capered through the
east and south. If SO, it's experience in
strange lands has robbed it of not one
whit of it's unpleasantness. In fact, it
appears to have grown stronger and
healthier and heartier from it's pleasure
trip. And it is now cavorting merrily
about through the northwest, to the
great personal discomfort of the popu.
lace thereof.
At any rate, it is a fitting sort of
climax for the spell of weather which
has been on for the past four weeks. The
month of January just closed has been
y of the coolest in years. But the
cold, although intense, was still, and
hence not particularly disseminating.
But with Tuesday morning cam the
frolicking winter wind, which picks up
the snow and sends it flying through the
crisp, cool air, to drift along the high
ways and avenues, and to render pedes-
trianism attended with difficulty and
profanity. And since Tuesday morning
the outside world has been Stunned by
the residents, in so great a degree as is
possible.
The temperature which has accom-
panied this breezy frolicksomeness on
the part of the elements, has been far
enough below zero to render it doubly
discomforting. And it will be noticed
that all through the northwest the
mercury ranges from S to 40 degrees be-
low zero. In this city the thermometer
has registered on an average of from 10
to 20 degrees below. The wind has
drifted the light snow to a considerable
extent in places, and the outside
world looks dreary and uninviting. In
the streets there is a corresponding STILL
ness-only an occasional pedestrian who
is forced out by the demands of business
and who gets in again as soon as his
business can be transacted.
Along the line of the road the snow is
becoming bothersome, and trains are
running a little irregularly. No. l of the
past few days has been delayed some
what, and No. 2 of yesterday afternoon
was several hours behind time. In the
local yards, freight trains are encounter
ing considerable difficulty, and several
have been snowbound for two to three
hours before being able to get out.
Lord Rooney.
There was a fair audience at the Athe-
neum Wednesday to witness the Lord
Rooney performance. There is no plot
to the play-merely a general hurrah,
and a series of s%pecislties. Some of these