The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-13
SOME FAM )US COLD SNAPS.
Record Winters of Past Centuries Prove World Is
 Becoming Warmer
(KansaS City Star)

ground was frozen nine feet deep.
 Birds and beasts died in the fields and
 men perished by thousands in their
 houses. In the south of France the 1 olive trees were killed and wine plan
 tat1ons destroyed. The Adriatfc Sea
 was frozen and even the Mediterranean | about Genoa The citVOn and orange
 groves suffered in Italy.
 Fairs were held on the ice on the
 River Thames in the winter of 116,
 and travellers crossed on the ice from Copenhagen to Sweden. 1 Multitudes of cattle and sheep were
 buried in the snow in Scotland in the
 winter of 1726.
 In January. 17s7, the ground was
 frozen to a. depth of four feet in New l England!
 The winter of 174o was scarcely less 1 cold than that of 17O9. An OK was I barbecued on the ice on the Thames, and the snow lay ten feet deep in Spain and Portugal. The Zuyder Zee was frozen over and thousands of per- sons crossed on it. The lakes of Eng land were also frozen That winter an ''ice palace was built at St. Peters burg after an elegant model and in the just proportions of Augustinian architecture. This seems to have been the first of the 'ice palaces" Snow fell to a depth of twenty-t three feet on the level in Portugal in the winter of 1744, while in New England it was summer winter
 The winters of 1754 and 1755 were so severe in England that the strongest ale exposed to the air for a few min utes in a glass was frozen over with coat of ice an eighth of an inch thick The River. Elbe was frozen to the bottom in 1771.
 The Danube was covered with ice five feet thick below Vienna in 1776. Vast numbers of birds and fishes per- ished, and in Holland and France wine froZe in the cellars.
 December 25, 1796, is recorded as the coldest day ever known in London, when the thermometer registered 16 degrees below zero.
 The mercury froze hard at Moscow, January 13, 1900. From 1900 to 1912 the winters were remarkably cold, particularly the latter in Russia, which surpassed in intensity that of any winter in that country for many preceding years, and caused the de- struction of the French army in it's retreat from Moscow. What with the loss in battle and the effects of this calanaitous frost, France lost in the campaign of this year more than 4O0,- 900 men.
 Tuesday" because in some parts of New England the thermometer regis tered 39 degrees below zero.
 The winter of 1858 was very mild iii the United States, but particularly se- were in Europe. For the first time in the nineteenth century the River Pc was frozen over at F'errara, per- hitting for a long time the constant passage of man and beast. At Con- stantinople the snow fell constantly for fifteen days. The snow extended to Smyrna, the adjacent districts of Asia Minor, and the Greek islands were clothed in white.
 Siberia has the coldest weather known anywhere in the world. Att VerkhOyansk, Siberia, BOA degrees be- low zero was observed in January, 1888, which goes below anything ever known in the world before or. since for January is nearly 64 degrees below zero This town is 33G feet above the level of the sea, and during the entire winter the weather is calm and clear.
 The year 1916 has a remarkable cold weather record and is known as "the year without a summer" In that year there was a sharp frost in every month, and the people all over the world began to believe that some great and definite change in the earth was taking place. The farmers used to re- fer to it as "eighteen-hundred-a and starve-to-deatI.' Frost, ice and snow were common in June. Almost every green thing was killed and the fruit was nearly all destroyed. During the month snow fell to the depth of three inches in New York and Massachu- setts, and ten inches in Maine. There was frost and ice in July in New York. New England and Pennsylvania, and corn was nearly all destroyed in cer- tain sections. Ice half an inch thick formed in Auo1St A cold north wind 1 prevailed all summer