Show THIS WONDERFUL WEATHER wa winter n hiir as far its as it has gone is ia a puzzle to all but bui the initiated it if any sue such bAbore there be it started in like a lion and kept up its fury so BO inces antly sod and forso for w long that it joust loick las BB though we were in for a season whose severity and length would be unprecedented ce in the annals of our territory but prestol presto look at it now dow and for the last two or three Is there an imagination fertile enough to picture aty anything thing finer or a disposition so 80 hard to satisfy that wants anything more we should think not the question now is ia how bow long is i this indian summer weather I 1 o last laet it cannot be that the queen of enow the ice king and old bores have folded up their tents and withdrawn from the field hereabout for the re maguder of the time in which thy they usually hold high and undisputed awall away no they will assuredly pay us a few more visits separately or jointly even though the wonted severity be tempered to the condition of gentle and the calls be aa ton rief brief as those of fashionable society clety we would not have them MY liay away altogether if we could tor for that would mean a change so radical and abrupt that diore more mischief than good would result we must have more snow if we can got get it and more ice more demand for our high priced but bui wasp tons of coal and in short more that is wintry in the season thereof or assuredly we will have it out of season As usual the knowing ones are in the field with explanations for the prevailing meteorological condition which seems to efte extend ad very far into the country to co the east of us A local celebrity of jacksonville ole who claims to be fully acqua acquainted wl with th the powers that control the movements of the solar system says that a recent earthquake has haa moved that portion of the earths surface miles south of its former loca location tiou and for th t reason he predicts that we will never have any more severe winters in the region so affected A seismic disturbance so powerful as to effect such a result would most likely be felt for a great distance and the central portion of its field be the scene of violent and destructive convulsions one would think and as a none such has taken place and ana none at all reported of late years we incline to the opinion that the wise man of jacksonville Is wiser in his own conceit than tiny any other way the causes of the temperature and other ambient conditions conditi ure none of us with worldly wisdom alone can ban ind and out |