Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-24

Special Correspondence of Gazette and journal
t1 a. land, Fla, Oct. l6. We have
" lied here one year last Fri
NeNwoye nave, consequently, passed
h,ou the round of Florida seasons,
saI.in addition to the customary
W summer, autumn and winter,
ieBe classified with perhaps more
.inence as the showery season and
Le' arid season. Much to my regret
he showery season-called by Flori-
dams the rainy seasons over; it took
its leave without even the parting favor
of the expected and usual equinoctial;
/ we had mild taste of the equinoctial
gales but not enough of the longed-fo
equinoctial rains to fairly dampen the
surface of the thirsty sand. Now we
are in for eight months of insufficient
moisture and anxious scanning Of skies
that often keep the word of promise to
the eye to break it to the hope; for all
signs of rain are emphatically prone to
fail in dry weather in this locality.
In the matter of temperature | can
now say, from experience that no Della
warean need fear Florida summer
Possibly, to take recent instance, you
may be surprised to learn that the hot
wave of three weeks or SO ago, which
warmed you up so uncomfortably in
Wilmington and pretty much all over
the North and East, did not touch us
here. While you were sweltering under
temperature of IS degrees to 100 de-
grees, my thermometer was satisfied
with maximum of 80 degrees and
mean certainly not exceeding So de-
grees; and SO degrees in the clearer
atmosphere of Florida does not feel as
warm as so degrees in Delaware. To
illustrate further, l would say that
early yesterday morning | felt even
chilly in temperature of 60 degrees,
the lowest recorded here since April.
Taking the past summer as whole,
have actually felt the heat less in
Florida than during previous summers
in Wilmington, while there has been
nothing here to equal in torridity days
of boyhood torture in Kent county har-
vest fields. incidentally may add that
we have been less troubled by mosqui-
toes than even in the city Of Whining
ton.
The Thermometer has, however, at
times ranged high; during the three
weeks drouth of June which ushered
in the so-called rainy season, it reached
the extreme of l05 degrees; but, as
said before, the difference in the air
able and found myself able to work
outdoors without much discomfort
while the mercury was nursing the
century mark in the shade. There is
no muggy, sticky hot weather here
and there is no fruitless hunting for a
cool place; it may be set down as
rule with practically no exception, that
lit is always cool in the shade in
Florida. Even seated under Their
mometer marking 100 degrees the re-
freshing breeze keeps one doubling
whether the mercury has not made a
big mistake. You see that it is lO5
degrees but you feel as though it were
not more than So degrees. In addition
the nights are always cool. | do not
recall night of the past summer that
was hot enough to interfere with sound
sleep.
have read somewhere Of bald.
headed New Workers who are &C.
customed to visit the parks every fine
day and sit for hours with their hats
removed, in the trust that the direct
rays of the sun may repair the rayagct
of advancing years.
There may be something in ii, If this
community can he taken as fair sam
pie of this sunny cline. for | have seer
only one bald headed man within tn,
past year among the thousand or NOR,
residents of Eustis and its immediat,
neighborhood.
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e.. ,ot th las now sonloh lar enough
iroht ny hllutk out DISASTERS OF las
stock. The best authorities agree tina
over the orange growing districts, Their,
h int5 peen q material laillilg,9it IN popu
iat.oh any Tremendous depreciation
III tlie value ol redl estate' As TO TN
oi uI'i; ~ "oulu po sat W say tlat IL
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