Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-12-05

So Professor Hicks, the Great
weather F~orecnsfer. says.

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weather Forecaster, says.
The kind OF Winter weather We usually
experience here In January and February
visited Us ahead Of time this year. Last
Saturday morning was the coolest that
has been felt here this season. At the E.
4 p. r. r. depot the mercury dropped 70
nine degrees below zero; at Eureka, seven
below. Conductor Rousey says on the
morning mentioned ID was sixteen below
zero at Pslissde and thirty below Of the Hay
Ranch, about seventeen miles south OF
the former place. on the line Of the E. 4
P. r. Il. Saturday night was also bitterly
cold, but not so intense ss the morning
previous. Sunday the weather began 10
moderate and Q warm wave passed over
Eureka. Some OF our local weather
shsrps said this was g good omen for fine
weather until after Christmas at least.
When the aforesaid prognosticstors read
the following article which we end In the
Kansas City Packer Of Nov. &c, they will
find that the great Missouri weather
prophet. Professor Hicks. has an entirely
different opinion:
The Packer takes pleasure in giving
publicity to Prophet Hicks forecast in .
condensed form. All who read 10 should
cut IL out and paste IL over their coal
sheds and ~woodhouses. He says the Win
ter show will begin about Dec. 2. II will
commence with warm weather, 30 as TO
sort Of fool Us. with southerly winds.
rain, then snowssorms sweeping eastward
across the country, attended by fierce. de-
struotive gales. The curtain will drop ON
the 9Th inst. and rise Immediately 20
WAgnerisn music by the orchestra, indi-
eating blizzardous conditions TO follow
the eastward moving rain. Then Winter
will begin In dead earnest. There will be
no flies O It..
From the 9th 70 the 18th inst, rain and
snow will prevail. and on the latter date
another cold wave will get in its frisid
work. From that time on, throughout
the balance OF the month. by the PERM.
oious influence Of the planets stormy and
variable weather may be expected. There
will be warm waves, low barometer, with
Winter thunder and lightning. attended
by high and dangerous gales. ending sud-
denly in sweeping billiards. and cold
waves, alternating In rapid and regular
succession.
From Dec. 10 to Dec. 20, Generals We
nus. Mars and Mercury, reinforced by
Col. Vulcan. will lombard Mother Earth.
and, il is promised, will stir mp the Da-
tives more than the recent election. In
stead Of using powder. shot and shell, our
planetary weather producers will fire at
Us north pole gales. Zoe, sleet, SHOWS and
cold shivers. They will begin operations
by sending a cold wave on the 10Th which
will frost-bite the Indians in front Of TO.
bacco shops and freeze the pipes in Obi
nese opium joints. On that date IL will
be SO cold that the mercury csnno, be
kept from running through the bottom OF
thermometers except by submergiDg the
latter in boiling water. Remember the
date. II is just one week ahead Of Christ
mas.
The weather prophet promises that de-
structive rains. with lightning and thun.
der In the far south, changing 70 billiards,
sleet storms and serious blockades in the
northern districts OF the country, may be
expected along about Christmas and the
two succeeding days. The month will close
with terrific Winter gales and an extreme
cold wave that will sweep the continent.
This is pretty bad for one month. but the
wors, OF ii is that nothing better is prom
issd for January and February.