The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-07
yovember ana Decemhcr.

No complaint can be justly lodge
against November, 1896 for the characte
d of its weather. Taken all in all it desire
a need of praise for its exceptional balmi
ness. And yet, it was a wet November
oter seven inches of rain being precipita
ted during the space of its calendar exist
ence There was very little mud or saty
4 rated surface, however. for so mud
rain The three rains were so divided al
4 of such a character as to preclude te
idea of its being abnormally wet. rife
4 was very little cloudiness, too, consier-
4 ing the aggregate rainfall. No northeast
4 winds to justify mention. There WAS
4 need for considerable deficiency of Iain7
4 fall being provided for. November Of its
4 part towards bringing up the Aggregate
A 10 reasonable average for the we've
4 months. By the LIST of November only
4 3lA inches had fallen, showing def
d cheney of or 10 inches since Jan. ii No
4 vember provided its normal supply and
q contributed several inches towads the
4 deficiency. December needs to Ie a wet
+ month to make good the remdaing def
n cheney.
Here in Middle Georgia tie bermuda
u grass is still green on lawns And pastures
81 up to the very close of Notember. The
4 last two weeks of the mdth were abb
& normally mild and our royal grass that
was gently blighted by the white frosts of
4 the second week began ! fresh growth
under the balmy influence of a tempera-
tare whereof the avera Sc minimum was
in the sos.
To the possible immigrant from the
bleak northwest, November, 1896, may ever
properly be quoted as , persuasive influ-
enee in proffering our customary induce
ments to bring, him hitherward. There
were only a few days, very few, when out
door work was prevented. 1t was left to
the last days of the month to remind us
that winter was net to be all sunshine and
balminess. That day gave the hint to De-
cember and December took it and pro-
ceeded at once to give us bad weather.
Snow, sleet rain, slush characterized the
first three days of the Christmas month.
Here, on the thirty-third parallel, for an
hour snow came down like it does in Min
nesota, two inches falling in that time. 1t
is well enough that it showed out in that
time, else we would have been snowed-in
surely.
The sleet was destructive indeed to the
grand old elms and oaks and ornamental
evergreens. Hundreds. of fine trees had
nearly every limb broken off by the
weight Of ice. 1t has been many years
NlAeD llAC NctAAlo6C mas DCEl HO 6ICdl lIOtAl
such a cause.
Well, the woodman and the goldman
must live too. and the flies must be killed,
or ought to be killed before Christmas at
least
Here they We're swarming as freely and
joyously week ago as they usually do in
July. We had a. long summer; not the
hottest summer by a good DEAL but there
Is no discount on the length of the period
marked by the laying off overcoat and it's
unemployment as a means to comfort.
Stern grizzled old December claims it's
own this time, though we have known it
occasionally to be as balmy as the No
vember, whose virtues we have just re-
counted. Some good steady, bracing,
frosty weather will be cordially welcomed
by every son of Adam, If it comes only
as fly exterminator; but there are many
other blessings that attest upon frosty
weather. Have you any hogs to kill?