The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-17
NEWS AND COMMENT.

According TO contributor to the
Washington Post this is not the only
frigid winter in the annals of the world.
Here are some of the precedents: In go
the Grecian seas were frozen. In 1858
the Thames was frozen Tor fourteen
weeks. In 1876 dreadful cold from No
vember to April in England. In 1923 the
Baltic was traversed by passengers for
six weeks. In 1902 Copenhagen and Dam
zic were connected by ice. In 1907 all
small birds perished in England. In 1926
Baltic again frozen over. In 1433-3i cold
in Europe, and large birds fiocked into
towns in Germany In 1i6O Baltic frozen
from Sweden to Germany. In li6S wine
in Flanders cut with the hatchet and
served In humps. In 154S large OK trains
passed from Germany to Denmark. In
1894 Adriatic frozen over. In 1907 fires
were built upon the Thames to make the
sports more attractive. In 1922 Huyder
Zee and Hellespont frozen. In 1858
Charles the Twelfth crossed his army
| from Holstein to Denmark on ice. In
1854 the Thames was made a street of
trade. In 1716 oxen were roasted on the
! Thames and fairs held. In 1909, three
| months cold through Europe and heavy
| SHOWS, and the rivers of Africa and the
| Mediterranean reported frozen. In lIi0
| large numbers of heavy coaches ran up
and down the Thames for nine weeks
| Il
Were on the ice. In 1866, characterized
as most terribly cold. In 1895 General
| Pichegru, commanding the French, with
| infantry and cavalry, captured a fleet
| in the Zuyder Zee, fast in the ice. In
| 1914 Thames again frozen and used In
| 1854 in United States, cold and much
suffering in the western part.
Speaking of self-made careers, that of
| Hon. Dennis L. Flynn, the delegate in
| congress from Oklahoma, is worthy OF
mention. Dennis began life in an or
phan asylum in Buffalo, peddled papers
| for a while, got a job in the Erie freight
| office in that city al S35 month, of which
he regularly saved $40 and when grown
| started for the west. TO the Buffalo
| News he tells the sequel thus: 81 went
| to Riverside, Iowa, just to please my
| mother who had always wanted me to
visit my grandparents, and while there
| l bought the Riverside News. l ran that
| q year and sold ii for $l500-in notes-a
| profit of $1,000. l went to Kansas with
! the little money had, settled on a claim
\ and held it six months in order to gain
| the title. l advertised on credit my In
| tention of closing the deal with the gov
| ernment, expecting to pay the bill and
| to pay the government fee of $50
| with the money / was to receive from
| a yoke of oxen. l was to get Sl20 for
them The night before l was ready to
sell them they died. 1 went to work for
| Major Drum, the biggest cattle raiser in
| the United States, for S25 a month-cook-
| ed for his cowpunCheTs on a trip from
| Texas to Kansas with cattle. At the
| end of the six months I paid the gov
| ernment fee sold the land for $500 and
started on the look for more money. l
ran into boom town, bought real es-
| tate, ran q newspaper, and things came
my way with speed / raised cattle too,
and in 1885 l was worth million and a
| half, most of It in cattle. A siX-foot
| snow storm wiped out my fortune. l
made up my mind that there would be
| money in Oklahoma and made up a
scheme to start town there and be the
postmaster of it. I got the appointment
all right, but 5000 men beat me into the
town and / didn't make a cent But
slept with both eyes open in Guthrie
ran for congress twice, was elected, was
| beaten once, and all the time was in
vesting the money l saved" Mr.. Flynn
is once more millionaire.