cd -- py aan et ee ie yeti man, who fired at Euecx, Masa, at the time, gites the following interesting facts : concerning 'the year without a summer" to The Ja:nestown Journal: SOMETHING ABOUT YEARS WITHOUT "December, 18], and Januasy, 1916, WINTER OF SUMMER, were very warm, indeed, so mi ld "that artes : : _ 3 fires were seldom"lighted if our rooms. Warm Winters as Heralds of Diensbar. Fet Gruary Was alas mild as epring time, Cyclones Whieh Have Come in Their. Wake-Snow and lee in Jane----Records of Old Times. ' JSOME STRANGE WINTERS. days. March was cold and boisterous thy first half, then mild'to the wsidle of April, when winter set in wih ice and On the, second page of Vennor's deep snows, which continued ll June. "Weather Bulletin' for January, 1s82, "June was bitter cold, the coldest ever was found the following: "During De known;'frost, ice or snow aliumst every cember, 1877, a western tlewdpaper re- night, destroying almost ever; ag that marked that not singe 1837 hak any De- frost could kill. Snow fell ten inches cember season been known #0 mild, deep in Vermont, New Hampshire and Wn grasees are growing finely and Maine, three inc hes in the interio® of dandelions are in bloom: navigation is New York state and ina part of Penn- ectly open." Commenting on thia, sylvania and Massachusetts. July was r. Vennor ys: 'Now, again, in 1881, cold and frosty. Ice formed as thick as we have to record a very siimilar state of window glass throughout New England. affairs for the same month of the year." August was worse still. Ice formed o The St. Paul Pioneer Press of Dec. 22, half inch thick and killed almost every 1877, contained an editorial of which the green thing in this country and in Eu- following is an extract: rope, Corn for seed in 1917, that raised "This remarkable weather knocks the in 1815, sold for §5 a bushel." Old Settler association on their" beam Not until December, according to Mr. ends. © * © Here itis the 22d of Bishop, did the sun shine out warm, like December, with the mercury danci ing on spring. It seemed as if the seasons had its silver heels to the music of 50 degs. been entirely reversed.--John W. Wright above In the shade, © * * Ten boats in Bt. Louis Republic. of the St. Paul Boat club, each occupied with scullers or crews of oarsmen, sport- ing upon the placid bosom of the ances- tor of meandering streams--all thia and Old Age Then and Now. Lam afraid that old people found life rather a dull business in the time of * more, too, is the result of the remark- King David and his rich old subject | able weather which now prevails in Min- 894 friend, Barzillai, who, poor man, nesota. * * * This isafact worthy Could not have told a teal from a can- of being placed on record for ~ benefit Yas back, nor enjoyed a symphony con- of all coming investigation: of climatic ett if they had had those luxuries in his facts and theories in Minnesota." day. There were no pleasant firesides, The winter of 1877-78 is not the only for tbere were no chimneys. There were one of exceptional mildness from which ©° the writer has authority to draw. read, and he could not read them if they WARM-CH were, with his dim eyes, nor hear them The wifiter of 1891-82 was as phenom- "very probably, with his~ dulled enal, as far as unsegjsonable weather waa ears. There was no tobacco, a soothing concerned, as that of 1877-78, OnChrist- drug, which in its various forms is a mas day, 1881, the mercury stood at from KTeat solace tothe many old men and to 45 to 55 degs. above zero throughout me old women--Carly le and his mother the Mississippi valley, merging intocum- used to smoke their pipes together, you mer heat from the mouth of the Ohio ee sitar ani cate ae southward. The day was 'clear and age is infin 0 bright, with wind pecs to southwest, imtelligent people at least, than it was In Ohio, Indiana, [llinois, Missouri, lowa aries Gite wa years "> ot and Nebraska the farmers plowed every UF Guty, 80 far as we can see, to kee: month during the winter, The lilac 'ened so, There will always be enough about swelled into full leaf in February, 1882, #¢ oy is solemn, and more than enough, in nearly all the states named, ! that is saddening. But how muc On Jan. 26, 1882, the best tested ther- there is in our times wd lighten Xe bur- ometers stooc d bor dens! If they that Jook out at the win- inoraang, 60 -- sone ante: seainsont dows be darkened the optician is happy and did not fall below 50 degs. for over © supply them with eye glasses for use thirty-six hours, February showed twen- before the public, and spectacles for their ty-one days upon which the mercury rose ursof privacy. If the grinders cease above 40 in the shade, and upon sixteen because they are few, they can be made of these the temperature was above 50 ™any again by athird dentition, which degs. some time during the.day, On the brings no toothache in -- on By "Sth, "Cui, 10th, "1Tth,"12th~and tth it habits prop: ieee 3 oth, stood "between 78 and 80 rfp aoertin te 2 egos degs. for five hours. much, éxerc o The thermometer responsible for this UF time may keep his muscular strength secrning inconsistency failed to reach the yee 4 geod condition.--Dr, Holmes in high water mark of Feb. 12 again until after the end of the first week in June, -with asingle exception, May 4, when it Uncle Billy Dawson, who lived in the marked 82. I mention this fact for thé fouse where Mr. Crounze was reared, benefit of the reader who may think the waaa kind hearted-man, who nerer- lost instrument with which the readings 4 chance to hold out hope to the despair- were taken one of inferior grade, and, ing and sympathy to the suffering, He in consequence, ble to fluc- was always ready with the proof that tuations of heat and cold. Southern people who get nervous when might have been many fold worse; and they hear yellow fever mentioned in his ingenuity at finding a recompensing connection with the warm winter -of gain for every loss that any one might 1877-78 can gain some consolation by suffer was a matter of loc al wonder- watching the change which comes over ment. the face of the western and northern) One day somebody told Uncle Billy man when he is informed that the spring that his neighbor, Thomas Darrow, had like character of January and February, fajlen under the cars and' lost a leg. 1882, indirectly brought about the many Uncle Billy stood in silence several cyclones and prairie twisters of the sum- minutes, looking at the ground. Then, mer following. Many scientists, living raising his eyes, he said: and dead, the Iate Mr. Vennor among "Well, I'm awful sorry for poor Tom, the number, believe and believed that put there's some consolation' in the warm winters are very likely to be fol- thought thata pair o' socks'll last him lowed by a summer of destructive wind twice as long a they ust to, and to a storms. As ~ as 1883 is concerned, the man as poor as he is that's a good deal," 1 The next day Uncle Billy called on the injured man, and to his surprise learned Looking eon the Bright Side. a su es OF CYCLONES. --Thetwisters began to exhibit that year that_ down in Louisiana early'in March, about disconcerted, Uncle Billy stood by the two or three weeks after the remarkable bed in solemn Presently, hot February day, leveling several towns however, his facé brightened, and. he and killing off the negro population at said: an alarming rate, Next, in April,a "Well, Tom, if you had to loose one prairie terror sprang up, all unlooked leg it's mighty good job that you lost for, in Rice county, Kan., traveled in a two," ,Mortheast direction, killing everybody "0, Uncle Billy," said Tom, * in ita track.. On the same day three se p- you say suc ha thing?" arate cyclones crossed the state of Michi- Cause it's true, Tom, true_gs gospel. gan, killing in the aggregate seventeen You see if you'd only lost one lez you'd persons and a great deal of stock, besides be thinkin' about it an' worritin' about it destroying an immense amount of prop- all the time, but now, you see, the loss of erty." From that time forward cyclones each one'll serve to keep your mind -- hatched out like tadpoles in June. They the loss of the other. It's a great blessi. were here, there and every place fora you Jost 'em both, Tom, 'stead 2 ai coup of months, doing great damage ane,"---Washington Post. to property, but sparing human life, ex- eh ee cept now and then an isolated family. The Chinese God of Literature. Next came the appalling calamity at- The Chinese Recorder of Shanghai con- Grinnell, Ia., in which fifty-six Jost their lives. On the same night-cy- of the God of Literature." This being, clonesof minor size visited Kansas, Mis- it appears. lived through seventeen dif- souri, Nebraska, Illinois and Minnesota, ferent lives as and official, al- killing from three totwelve in each state. though the records of only mine lives Nate thenames of thestates just ust mention- now exist; the remaining eight never ed, and also the list given above, in which having been preserved. it-was-said-that plowing continued son be of the throughout the winter. After the Grin- three religions of China. 'One: of his nell horror atiout a fortnight of compar- works contains a chapter-on ghosts and ative quiet reigned. Then came the Tex- men, of which the following ia the sub- arkana calamity. in whieh nineteen: hu- stance: "A ghost is the corrupt part of man lives were blotted out of existence, man, and man fs the pure part of a ghost. This summary does not take into con- A man can be a ghost, and a ghost can sideration the cyclone at' Brownsville, be aman. The man and the ghost are Mo., and'at Fayette, Pa., both of which mutually related; why separate man and occurred in April of the same year; nor ghost?--The ghost becomes a man; then the ones at McAllister, L T., and at man must become a ghost. Montgomery, Ark., in May, each of "If amarndoes not become a ghost, he which claimed a bloody record. * One ae surely be able to perfect manhood. thing is certain: it takes info considera- It is difficult fora ghost to become a _tion enough té show that "phenomenal" man, because it has fallen'to ghosthood "winter weather is a boon not to be ap- and because it.-has lost manhood. A i. man isa ghost; a ghost is a man. But all men are 'Rot ghosts; neither is every 'how can preciatec ~ OLD TIME WEATIIER. _The record for the summers ,of..1578 aman." It --- _ that it and (S83, it aust be Waniitted; ste cth- ie pomsittey nithoarh "atihed "rm ] ens that opinion; but what are we te-to-escape becoming a ghost. 1 This is how. think of the summer of 1816, which it can be done: 'Those whocan be re- ' brought neither cyclones or yellow fever, spectful without feeling ashamed, who and which, in fact, broaght a summer can be submissive without only in name. The winter of 1915-16 who can obey to perfection the rule of Was a9 re e for its unseasonable life Te reid, retin chuhing weather as that of '1837-38, 1877-78, ural force unabated, secret! 1881-82, Baddhas or will become atin Bed with the exception -of one or two cold |. daily newspapers for the old man. to | temperance and : er clothing, well armed, well drained and however hard a neighbor's Io€ was, it | H oth legs. 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