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pt’BI.lPBED
TWICE a month.
YOL. III.
ATLANTA, GA., MAY 1, 1884.
NO. 13.
(ONE DOI.I,Al
A YEAR.
A SURVEYING PARTY.
Borne of tlie Very Coldest Days in
the World’s History.
It is a bit of a coincidence that the
comet upon which Napoleon’s soldiers
gazed seventy years ago, when they
were making that dreadful march from
Moscow, which resulted in the death
from cold and exposure of 400,000 men,
should be accompanied on its re-appear-
ance with a hitter cold spell of weather.
M lien it swept out of sight the world
witnessed an unusually severe winter.
The incident, as well as the present cold
snap, recalls other severe winters. In
October, 763, and February, 764, the
denizens of the cities of mosques and
minarets were astonished by a cold spell
°f weather, and the two seas at Con
stantinople were frozen over for twenty
days. In 1093 the Thames was frozen
0Ver for fourteen weeks. In 1407 the
cold was so intense in England that all
the small birds perished, and in 1433 the
^ ar ge fowl of the air were driven by the
terrible cold into the towns of Germany.
In 1468 the winter was so severe in
hinders that the wine distributed was
cu t with hatchets.
Ihe year 1658 was noted for cold
" eat her in England. Thousands of for*
e '.’ an d shade trees were split by frost,
lr ds and stock perished, a line of stages
ran on the Thames for several weeks,
and shops were built on the ice in the
middle of the Thames.
In 1691 the wolves were driven by the
cold into Vienna, where they attacked
men and cattle on the streets.
In 1810 quicksilver froze in the ther
mometer bulbs at Moscow. One of the
most remarkable changes of tempera
ture was witnessed at Hornsey and
Hummersmith, near London, in 1867.
The thermometer was 30 below zero on
the 4th of January, and seventy-two
hours later it had leaped to 55 degrees
above zero.
With respect to America some of the
remarkable cold spells were as follows:
In 1730, and again in 1821, New \ork
harbor was frozen over so that teams
were driven across the ice to Staten Is
land The neighboring State of Indiana
saw weather cold enough to congeal the
mercury in 1855. The winter of 1881
was made memorable by cold weather
On the 13th and 26th days of January
many deaths occurred from the*
cold and the residents of Mobile saw
the thermometer sink to zero.
A record of cold sieges would be im
perfect without a mention of the terrible
try in 1863, which has gone into history
as the cold New Year’s. A drayman
was frozen to death in Cincinnati while
driving along the street j a man climbing
a fence in Minnesota froze to death and
toppled over into the snow, while the
loss of human and animal lives in all
parts of the country was immense.—
Cleveland Herald.
Need of Economy.
One of the hardest lessons in life for
young people to learn is to practice econ
omy. It is a harder duty for a young
man to accumulate and save his first
$1,000 than his next $10,000. A man
can be economical without being mean,
and it is one of his most solemn duties
to lay up sufficient in his days of strength
and prosperity to provide for himself
and those who are or may be dependent
upon him in days of sickness or misfor
tune. Extravagance is one of the great
est evils of the present age. It is un-
derming and overturning the loftiest and
best principles that should be retained
and held sacred in society. It is annu
ally sending thousands of young men
and young women to ruin and misfortune.
Cultivate, then, sober and industrious
habits; acquire the art of putting a lit
tle aside every day and for your future
necessities; avoid all unnecessary and
foolish expenditures. Spend your time
only in such a manner as shall bring
you profit and enjoyment, and your
money for such things as you actually
need for your comfort and happiness,
and you will prosper in your lives, your
business, and will win and retain the
respect and honor of all worthy and sub
stantial people.
♦
A Surveying rnrty.
We present on this page an illustration
of an engineering corps at work in a
semi-tropical region. It is evidently
warmer weather in that latitude than
we experienced in this section during
last month. The growing of tropical
fruits in Louisiana and Florida is attun
ing such magnitude that one can imagine
the tropics brought to our very doors.
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The Baltimorean evidently does not
admire bangs. It says with decided
emphasis: “ Our women have fine heads,
and as a general thing good foreheads,
if we could ever once more catch a full
view of them behind those odious bangs
that never fail to suggest certain re
straining institutions/’ Who was it
1 called them she-bangs?
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i Florida expects sixty million oranges
1 this year.