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Show THK KIU.HT SNOW. The air was too balmy for mid-winter. It was an unnatural and therefore an unhealthfiil condition that . confronted con-fronted us. While protracted autumn weather is not an exception in this region re-gion it is still rare to bold out without interruption beyond New Year. We therefore welcome tho advent of the first snow storm with pleasure and hope the Hake may continue falling now or at frequent intervals until the air is purified of germs and the earth is saturated with moisture. Copious snows will still insure an abundant water supply next summer. Tho storm this morning was not a local one. It was caused by tho cold currents attending the eastern blizzard comingling with the warmer currents of the southwest in which process we became involved. Air in motion is called wind, and air in violent motion is a storm. The meeting of a warm with a cold air current cur-rent if slowly progressing produces clouds or fog, while a sudden meeting precipitates rain or snow according to the degree of temperature accompanying accompany-ing the whole mass. It is upon this meteorological knowledge that all the predictions of the signal service are based and it is upon this knowledge that we may foretell the coming storms ourselves if the same Information over a large extent of territory were vouchsafed vouch-safed us. Anyway now that winter has mado its first appearance and the sky is still overcast with dense cumulus we hope, and certainly our merchants wish, it may not be too modest to stay with us awhile, affording us at the same time a brief season of sleighing. |