The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-02
BEGINNING OF WINTER
Appearances Indicate That 1t Is
at Hand at Last.
STORM STRIKES ANACONDA
Comes From the West and Evidently Is
an Asiatic Importation - Eclipse
Scheduled for Tonight, but
Will Not Be Visible.

1t may be only another. bluff the ele-
ments are perpetrating, but it certain
ly looks as if they proposed to make
good this time.
Thanksgiving day was none too beau
tiful, anyhow, but yesterday dropped
entirely out of the beautiful category
and entered the class known in London
as nasty" 1t was a triangular scrap
all day between the wind, the snow
and the rain. After a few rounds the
snow got groggy and failed to show up
at the call of time. The rain was quite
active most of the day, but occasionally
was put to sleep. At these times the
snow would revive momentarily and en-
ter the ring only to receive a vicious
jab in the solar pexus or a swinging
left handler in the ear.
In the evening the snow braced up
and proceeded to make the fight of it's
life. 1t managed to land considerable
whiteness, but retired before the warm
work of the wind, which seemed to
thrive on all the punishment it re-
ceived.
The wind is evidently an Asiatic i'm
portation, with proverbial Asiatic pa
thence and staying power From all in
dications it is the tail of that storm
brewed over the Japan current off the
Pacific coast and reported yesterday
The fuss the elements kicked up made
pedestrianism anything but a soul-in
spring enjoyment yesterday. Last ev
ening the sleet on the sidewalks, half
frozen as it was, and the fierce wind
made it difficult for one to keep his feet
and was productive of considerable
profanity. When man has a sore in
side in him as result of Thanksgiv-
ing dining he doesn't like to be jolted
| around in that fashion and objects Sc
rously to having his legs slip out from
under him and let him down on his
| dorsal vertebrae.
| 1t wasn't half so cold during the day
! as it seemed. During most of the day
it was only As degrees above zero, and
| in the evening went but little lower.
A week ago tonight it went down to
! % and people didn't kick nearly so
much as they did yesterday. The
dampness of the atmosphere yesterday
gave the wintry impression.
Perhaps the fact that the sun is pre-
pairing to do it's great annual act to-
night had something to do with the
wea Their. Tonight the annular eclipse
of the sun takes place. 1t isn't visible
in this part of the world, so one need
not smoke up any glass in anticipation
| The almanac says the eclipse will be
visible generally as partial eclipse
to the south pole and adjoining oceans
as also to the southwestern corner of
Australia. Van Diemans Land and
New Zealand AS Montana is not nurs-
ing up to the south pole just now there
is no chance of seeing the eclipse.
However. if Montana people really
yearn to see an eclipse they may sit up
all night two weeks from last night
and be made happy. A partial eclipse
of the moon is scheduled to take place
on the morning of Dec. is. Astrono-
mers say it will fill the date without
doubt. They admit they may slip UP
now and then in predicting meteoric
displays, but they are confident they
have a lead pipe cinch in predicting
eclipses. In this latitude the various
stages of the eclipse will be as follows:
Moon enters penumbra. :05 q. m.
| Moon enters shadow ...........4:11 a. m.
| Middle Of eclipse. 5:5S a M.
| Moon leaves shadow ............7:40 a. m.
Moon leaves penumbra ....S:5 81 a. m.
The first contact of the shadow say
the astronomers, will be 66 degrees
from the north point of the moons
limb toward the east. Just spot that
point and figure it out for yourself: it's
easy. The magnitude of the eclipse
will be 0.s96 of the moons diameter.