The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-09
WARMER WEATHER
OBSERVER LYONS PROMISES
BREAK IN THE COLD WAVE
TONIGHT
CHANGE WILL BE WELCOME
Low Average Temperature. and
the Wind That Came With the
Continued Cold Caused Many a.
Nose and Ear to TingIe-Other
Points Were Colder

Old Boreas was in his glory yester-
day He had evidently heard of King
Rex and of the hot time coming in
New Orleans, and wanted to show his
rival that he could make things inter
estfng himself. So he started in early
in the day and sent the mercury tum-
bling like wheat in a panic down to
the lowest possible notch He succeeded
In getting the mercury down to 2S at
o'clock in the morning, and by sheer
persistence he kept ii down, in spite
OF the efforts made to run it up. Old
Sol did send the mercury up to IS de-
grees below, but that was as far as it
got in that direction. That was at 2
p m, and after that hour the ther-
mometer fell steadily until at sunset
1t was dangerously near the % degree
mark, and then it sank lower and low
er until at midnight it was about %.
JAM Il, 1888, has always held the rec
ord for cold weather. On that famous
day the lowest temperature was Il be-
low and the highest II below The
highest temperature yesterday was !
degree lower, and SO yesterday will
hold the record in that respect, unless
today 1t is beaten
The intense cold was aggravated by
the wind, which blew steadily from
the north and northwest 1t was a
biting and an eager air, such as froze
the blood in Hamlets veins the night
he watched for his fathers ghost.
There were many ears and noses
frozen yesterday. No sooner would
one put his nose out of doors than he
would feel the nip of the bitter air, and.
unless he had good protection, he
would feel his ears tingle and his nose
sting.
But there were colder places in the
Northwest than ST. Paul. At Willmar
the thermometer at a. N. registered
"a degrees below, while at Larimore il
was 80 below. The average tempera-
ture on the line of the Great Northern
was Sc below, and at Barnesville it was
40. Grand Forks reveled in tenn
perature of 46, and Neche in AZ 1t
was 90 below at Rugby Junction, \. D..
and so at Minot and Williston. Crooks
ton tried to keep warm with the ther-
mometer at As below.
Similar reports came from Northern
Pacific points, though the lowest tenn
perature on that system was at Win
nipeg, where 1t went TO Is below Du-
luth enjoyed 36 below, and PembiEa A.
At Fargo it was 39, and jamestown 3s
Minnewaaka shivered with the tenn
perature at 40. and Dickinson at ss
But from Montana came encnura ge-
ment. The mercury at Billings was
IS above, While Bozemar reported 80
above. 1t was IS above al Butte, and
II at Helena. In this there was d
promise of a warm wave coming in this
direction.
The Puget sound country had 10
cause for complaint with the thermom-
eter ranging above zero all day.
The locomotives and trains arriving
| here from the West yesterday bore
evidence of the cold belt through which
| they had passed. The locomotives were
sheathed in ice and icicles hung from
the hoods of the cars. The trainmen
all declared that the weather was the
hardest they had experienced this win
ter.
1t was impossible yesterday for the
trains to move on time, and all were
late, though the average was only an
hour. Under the circumstances they
all made excellent time.
Weather Forecaster Lyons last night
said the temperature today would be
about the same as yesterday, but that
tonight the mercury would begin TO