Show The Awful Cold SALT LAKE CITY Nov 1718SO Editors Herald We dont hear much about trips to Back Rock Lake Point or Lake Sbcre or bathing trains cr rcmanic moonlight excursions on the briny lake just now They would be rather too romantio this w6ek The fact is that to day yesterday and the day before an Arctic wave baa been sweeping down upon us I cant say long may it wave na Arctic waves have been uncomfortably and uncommonly uncom-monly common and numerous ever since last Christmas and a day or two before If the north pole is coming down upon us in this way what is the use of sending any more Arctic expeditions alter it or even of dispatching dis-patching the native Esquimaux to find iti Have jou seen Jennings fountain these three dajs I have seen a glacial object thereabout that put me in mind ot Kussian ice palaces But still we have hAd colder weather and survived How cold has the cold been this cold snap Popularly it is held to have been colder than ever before I But of coarse this is a popular fallacy fal-lacy My thermometer ears tht between be-tween the bouts of 9am and 5 pm the mercury for the three days has ranged from 12 ° to 23 in the shade and that yesterday Wednesday was the coldest day all through being 12r at 9 am 16 at noon and 16 ° at 5 pm It was 16 at 5 p m on Tuesday Tues-day also but several degrees warmer in the morning Some say the mercury mer-cury has been down to zero that it was there early on Wednesday morning morn-ing But it varies a few degrees at the same hour in diflerent situations and exposures in this city During hat winter which was called a very severe one we had only five days as cold as last Wednesday and those days were December 23J 24th 25th iGh and 31st Of those five cold days the three first were colder than Wednesday Toe coldest of the tbree was tho day before Christmas Diy Christmas Eve had such an eager and a nipping air that it was said to ba too much for good old Santa Claus and that in consequence he did not deposit so many wonderful things in some childrens stockings as was his wont That day the mercury was 4 ° above zeroat coon and 2 ° below at 5 pm But Christmas day was almost sa cold especially in the morning part as it grew somewhat milder toward to-ward night We had the butt end ot our winter early last year but we are having it much earlier this year BOREAS |