The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-23

eFaI Throughout the Northwest.
The old settler had his innings yester-
day. After being obiig, d to refra n from
making any comparisons about the
kind of winter weather I'VE useter
have" for nearly two years, he got
even ir a single day. He was willing
to admit that there had some snow
fallen Monday, and that the wind was
sufficient TO attract the passing atten-
tion Of 2 person recently from Florida,
but would by no means adrnit that
there bad been anything In the form
OF what was, in other years, a blizzard
He produced a fragment Of his memory
which to'I of the winter of umpty-
umph ard put that in evidence win
ter that belonged to the times when the
onervation Of the age had not gotten
to the weather man and there was
some thing Of vigor in this climate.
1t was something of a storm accord
ing to the ideas Of the modern who has
no sort Of memory when it comes to
facing a wind blowing at the rate Of
thirty miles an hour and carrying with
It millions Of icy darts, sharp pointed
on the grndstone Of the storm king.
There have be,n storms i'm this country
IN November i'm other days, and there
have also been storms in the merry
tTining month Of May, but that which
was central hereabouts at an early
hour yesterday morning was a pretty
good thing in its way. The coolest and
bloakest place in the United States,
except a spot in front of the pole, On
which the instruments of the weather
man at st. Vincent, Mimi, hang, Is
located about seventy-five feet from
the southwest corner Of the court
house. There are men of veraclty go
ing about this town who Will make an
cath that it was 76 below and the wind
was blowing l42 miles an hour at that
point at 2 o'clock yesterday morning.
The weather man won't bear them out
IN the statement. but the weather man
was giving Morpheus pointers at about
that time. Vest rGay morning that
particular point was free Of snow No
well conducted STOW drift would at
tempt to occupy ttat particular corner,
but at the other-the Fifth street cor
uer-of the court house, there was a
drift that extended from the fence out
TO the street car tracks that was, ut
its highest point, exactly five fe It two
inches high. 1t was tunneled through
in the forenoon and removed about
the lunch hour.
NINE INCHES ON A LEVEL.
More snow fell while the storm was
doing business at this center than fell
during the whole Of last winter There
was not nine feet of snow on a level,
as one might think who tried TO make
his way home through il early yester-
Gay morrns. There vi as. in fact, some
Il ing less than nire inches But il was
the sort of snow that is unsettled in
its habits. 1t refused TO stav on the
ground except in chosen spots. 1t staid
in the air and put in all OF its time
Tokin" out the eyes Of pedestrians 1T
wholly neglected the business that has
been assigned TO the beautiful of form
inE blanket for mother earth And
1t made merry with the street car and
the railway train.
The storm was general over the state
and it was expensive so far as it affect
ed business interests and interfered
with traffic There was a direct and
immediate loss to the transportation
companies, and the business houses