The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-01-05
5-M|NUTE CURE
FOR SORE THROAT
Weather Wizard TheO.
Days Remarkable Recipe
ALSO SOME ACCOUNT OF
WAYNE'S WEATHER VAGARIES
DURING THE PAST 81 YEARS.


tomary weather prognostications to
give a Citizen man good advice on
how to get ria OIL pad cold.
There's plenty of Sickness" he
continued. Lots of colds. Few
people understand how to get rid of
them. Deep-breathing is the best
remedy ever known. A sore-throat-
cold is bad thing to have. woke
up the other night with one. With
out looking for medicine, | simply
commenced the deepest of deep
breathing, filling the lungs, and at
the same time letting the chest ex-
pand.
Then / commenced tensing the
muscles, that is, gripping my hands
hard. That connects with the blood.
In few minutes | fell asleep and felt
better when | woke up this morning.
It's the quickest, cheapest, easiest,
readiest way of getting rid of a cold.
The whole time taken in that exercise
to cure that cold was five minutes.
My father used to say 1T takes life
time to learn how to live And it
does.
I'VE ought to stand just as good
chances as younger people because
we know better how to live. Older
people, who have studied how to live,
they are better off than young peo-
pie. l escaped a cold just with
little knowledge.
There's 81 years of weather in
this report. | had no instruments at
all when | commenced. | took great
pains to measure the snowfall.
commenced my first records in De-
cember 1854. That's a good many
years ago. This year was a record
breaker for the highest temperature
in December.
The springs are not frozen over.
1t is only the smaller streams that
are. 1nere's anchor ice this morn
ing. 1t always rains within three
or four days after you see that an
chor ice. There's a good many in
teresLing things about the weather
1t took me two days to make out
this report.
Anchor Ice? It's formed on
stones in the bottom of the river.
It's not solid ice but 'sploshy ice
1t comes loose from the stones, rises
up and floats near the surface and is
called 'splosh' ice.'
How many billiards. are we 60
ing to have?" he was asked.
81 don't know" he answered.
But l calculate zero weather is 60
ing to come in the latter part of
January, February and March Feb
ruary and March l expect to be bad
months, and continue cold in spring,
especially If mild this month. The
average temperature balances itself
every year. There's not much varia-
ton between the coolest and warm
est years."
But think of it! Keeping the rec
ords for an unbroken term of ST
years, 20,SO5 days, 499,320 hours,
29,959,2OO minutes. Can you beat
it?
Here Is the record:
81 Years of Wayne Weather.
Rainfall for December 1911, ten
days, and traces s other days, 296
inches. Last year IL days measured
1.9O inches, over one inch less for
Dec. 1910. Most recorded for Dec.
is 6.66 inches in 1901; and least is
81 inch in 1896, and .95 inch in
1874; average 3.04 inches for AZ
years. Total for the whole year 1911
is 1870 inches, which is 5.04 inches
more than for the year 1910; and .12
for 80 years, from least 27.S6 inches
in 1895. to most 53.12 inches in 1890
and 1902. Last year, 1910, total
rainfall was 1886 inches.
December snow, 1911, five DAYS
and four days trace, As inches; 1910
six days and l3 days trace, lis in
ches; most snow in December 80. 5
| inches in 1890 Average snow in De-
/ Cember for 81 years 1877 inches. Tot
al snow for the year 1911 was 5S. 2
| inches; and for 1910 it was 90.4 in
ches; average 3S.S2 inches for 80
| years.
| December temperature, 1911: High
est llth, - degrees; 1910, Goth, 3S
| degrees; and highest in December for
As years GA degrees 25th, 1889. Low
est registered during December 1911,
was s degrees goth, 1910 lowest
! tenth 4 degrees below zero. Lowest
! in December for ffty-one years was
27 degrees below zero 14th, 1867.
Daily range December, 1911, var
| led from two degrees 18th, 18th, 22d
and cath, to forty degrees seventh
! Average range 24.2 degrees; 1910,
! 1915 degrees. Warmest day in De-
! cember, 1911, 18th, mean So degs
| and coldesJ day 29th, mean IS degs
Mean for month g degrees, is 14.5
| degrees warmer than last year, and
! GO degrees above December average
of 25.4 degrees for AZ years; from
| III in 1910 and 17.3 degrees in
/ 1876; to 34.5 degrees in 1891. Mean
daily temperature for the year 1911
! is 45.5 degrees; nine-tenths of a de.
I gree higher than 1910, and one de.
gree above average Of 44.5 degrees
for 43 years; from All degrees in
1907; to 46.S degrees in 1889.
In December days were clear, six
fair ana IT cloudy; average 33 pei
cent, of sunshine, the same as in No.
vember, ana only four less than in
December last year. Prevailing
winds northwest on most days and
strongest. With only two to three
inches of snow at a time, for the past
six weeks, and less than nine inches
in ALL wagons were on our roads
every day, and sleighs of no use
This morning | made my first zero
record for this winter, four degrees
below. Last year seven mornings in
December, 1910, were to IA below
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