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2 burnie, Oakland Hall, L. S. Cox’s boarding house and Mrs. J. H. El liott’s are all highly commended. One of the attractions, is a run up the Marietta & North Georgia R. R., to the North Carolina line, through a country picturesque enough for the painter or poet, romantic enough f>r the school-girl, full of delightful sur prises to the tourist, with fish and game for the sportsman and health for the invalid. Such a wilderness of water falls, cascades, mountains, valleys, cliffs, glens and tablelands, is seldom found. There are six passenger trains, each way, on which the sojourner in Mari etta may visit Atlanta. From records of the United States signal service observers, the writer has gathered data relating to the climate of the region about Atlanta. In ev ery instance, unless otherwise stated, the observations have extended over a period of not less than five consecutive years. TEMPERATURE. Atlanta has a low average of high tempeiature ; a medium average of low temperature, and a small range, or dif ference, between high and low temper atures. It has not an equable climate in the sense that the Pacific, lower At lantic and Gulf coasts have. On the other band, it has no extremes of tem perature either way. A person visit ing Atlanta in the summer need not expect a temperature of over 95.5° F., which has only been reached once in seven years observation. If in the winter, he would not be likely to ex- «ulyM®S4 sOßilw Ofc MARKHAM HOUSE, ATLANTA. perience a lower temperature than one and one-half degiees below zero, which was the lowest recorded during the winter of 1885-6 —the coldest since 1835. The extreme highest tempera ture recorded at Atlanta (97.5°) is 2.6 degrees below that at St. Paul. Minn., (eleven degrees farther north,) while the extreme lowest at St. Paul is 38.5° below the minimum at At lanta. The yearly range of tempera ture at Atlanta, between the mean highest and lowest, is 84.4°, while at St. Paul it is 132.3°. 121 Paso, Texas, has an average of maximum temperature of 91 degrees for May; 100.7 June, 105.8 July, 98.4 August and 88.8 for September, or 4.4 higher for this autumn month than is the average maximum temper ature of the three summer months at Atlanta. The following table gives the aver age highest and lowest temperatures and the range between them for sev eral stations where observations have been made by signal service observers; in no instance for a period of less than five consecutive years : * Stations. Summer Winter Range. Atlanta, Ga ..... 94.7° 10.3° 84.4° New Orleans, La. 96.5 23.8 'f-' Saint Paul, Minn. 97.1 30.2 13..3 Los Angeles, Cal. 97.1 32.0 65.1 Chicago 111 .... 98.3° —15.2 113.5 Boston Mass.... 98.6° —JO.2° 120.3° Denver C 010.... 102.1° -26.1° 128.2° Cincinnati, 0.... 100.8° -4.1° 104.9° Charleston, S. C. . 100.5 21.1 •*4 Jacksonville, Fla. 104.5 24.1 *The dash before figures signifies below zero. .'4 A 81. A _ I ■wl^rßKe. xr ttr '®rJWd 1 'ifi fl II • ~iilu r Jjr~ I ~ KIMBAI/I HOUSE ATLANTA. The summer climate of Atlanta has heretofore attracted many visitors from the cities in the low lands. The following table of the mean seasonal temperature at several cities in southern States is presented for con sideration : - DAILY RANGE OF TEMPERATURE AT SEV- ERAL SIGNAL SERVICE STATIONS. = p E ~ £ ££? CITIES. Z E £ .= o £= = ® O. < tP .7. >—< Atlanta, Ga. 61. J 76 9 61.9 46.4161.8 67.0 Memphis, Tenn. 61.4 79.5 60.6 42.8 6'.1 68.a Montgomery. Ala 65.3 8.98 65.2 50.4 6 >.6 68.8 Mobile, Ala .' 67.2 81.4 67.6 52.6'67,1 74.6 Savannah, Ga 66.5 81.3 *»6.8 52.7)67.9 71.6 New Orleans, La 68.9 81.9 69.7 55.9(69.2 71.2 yw wmm .. pwg WMsUIL Mr Sk 1: ■fbcl| MOORE, MARSH & CO., WHOLESALE DRY GOODS, ETC., ATLANTA. In Wood’s Reference Hand Book of the medical sciences (a master-piece of book-making, valuable to intelli gent laymen and necesary to well-read physicians,) Dr. Huntington Richards thus refers to the influence of daily range of temperature: “The importance to the invalid of this feature of climate cannot be over- ijg E E i! I i SWWWhwB KsSwnSHHwSI fi 1 ' S sS'mJS Hr ßn I !clk Mi I ' r ' IIIBiswJ&l FRANK E. BLOCK, CONFECTIONERY, ETC., ATLANTA. THE KENNESAW GAZETTE. estimated, and many untoward results and accidents are frequently attributa ble to its neglect. * * * For mist persons a variability indi cated by an average nycthermal [from day to nitdit] range of about 10 or 15 degrees Farenheit may be considered as conducive to health.” The diurnal changes at Atlanta are a fraction above the maximum limit alluded to by Dr. Richards. But no climate combines all of the good char acteristics of a perfect climate. Nor is such probably to be found on earth. Still, the writer believes it is more near ly approximated at Atlanta than any where else in our country of change ableness of seasonal temperature. STA TIONS. Spring; Su’mcr I Autumn Winter ;■ 1 i i At!:ini:i. I 18.0° 15.4° 15.7° 15.7° Saint Paul, Minn.l 21.3° 19.7° 18.5° 19.7° Denver, Col.. ' 23.2° 24.4° 24.7° 22.0° Los An-zeles, Cal.i 32.<1° 32.4° 27.0° 26 3° El Paso, Tex i 23.2° 25,1° 21.7° 21.8° In this connection, Dr. Richards is again quoted: “Thus Denver at 5,200 feet altitude shews an average daily range of 30°* F., and even with this difference (lew but seldom forms. Though this latter fact will indicate a low relative hu midity of the air, there can be but lit tle doubt such extreme and sudden changes must affect persons other than the most robust.” RELATIVE HUMIDITY. Dr. Richards says : “It becomes a matter for careful study to determine wherein lies the happy mean between dry climates, with great daily range, and moist climates, with small daily range of temperature. In a general way, it may be said that between the two extremes lie the conditions most favorable to health. Alexander H. Stephens once said, (while watering his horse, near where the Union Depot now stands, when At lanta had but a few hundred inhabi tants.) “This is the healthiest spot on earth.” To-day there stands a large city on the spot referred to, with an annual death-rate among the whites of only 13 per thousand. This is the more re markable in view of the fact that the region of country having the smallest number of deaths among the whites in the United States, according to the census of 1880, has a ratio of 11.25 per thousand. The death rate among the whites in the North Atlantic Coast Region (U. S. Census Divison,) ex tending from New York to Washing i ton, D. C., is 20.5 per thousand. Moisture, when associated with cold, is trying to others than the most ro bust, by season of exhausting the bod- GATE CITY BANK. ily heat. Excessive humidity, when associated with warmth, is on the oth er hand, relaxing to the system en feebled by disease, and enervating to all. Atlanta has a mean winter tem perature of 46.4°, wiih an average relative humidity of 68.8 (four years observation,) while Saint Paul, Minn., has mean winter temperature of 17.4°, with an average humidity of 72.3°, or a trifle less humidity than has Jack sonville, Florida, (72.6) with its high mean winter temperature of 56.6°. Newport, R. 1., has recently become a claimant for public favor as a winter resort for Consumptives. The Census shows that the death rate from Con sumption is 246 per 100,000 for the state, as a whole; 207 in Newport county; 202 in the state, excluding the city of Providence and Newport coun ty. A region, having as large a ratio of deaths from Consumption as is shown by the above figures, cannot ap pear to an unprejudiced mind to be a highly favored region for recovery from the disease. In support of the advocates of cold moist stations, the Valley of Daros, Switzerland, has been growing in favor among European physicians, up to last reports, as a winter resort for consump tives. There the relative humidity is 84.4 for five months of the year, in cluding the three winter months. How ever, the Valley of Daros is at an eleva tion of over 5,000 feet above Atlantic City, with a mean winter temperature *From the only data obtainable by the writer, the mean diurnal range is as given in the foregoing table.