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Show AN EXCEPTIOHAL SEASON. The fall of KST1 will become aa niem-orublo niem-orublo almost for its .severe storms, as thehuter pai t of I ho f.ummcr will be for terrilic conllaeratioi.s on thi.s continent. con-tinent. Great :ulvni;ee has bceu made in meteorological science and much valuable data collected, yet at irregularly irregu-larly recurring periods como summers and winters; of exceptional character which no known fact?, nor the uiost I elaborate computation, enable mctcroo-loriints mctcroo-loriints or astronomeri to sueces-!'u!ly predict. Though winter proper cannot can-not be said to havo yet commenced, according ac-cording to the regular teasou, its advent ad-vent haw been heralded by Morula of unusual severity. In London, where humid weather should prevail, tho frost has been so been that fcknters wore enjoying themselves on the ponds and small lakes pome time ao. ll'ierce winds in "ihc four seas of Britain" are not umijual at tins season, out lately they have been exceedingly violent vio-lent and destructive. We need scarcely refer to tho sweeping storms which have prevailed nil over the western half of this continent, impeding trains, doing immense damage, and coming almost unexpectedly. But a couple of facts are noteworthy aa evidence of their being wide-spread as well as sovcro : Snow has fallen in tho central part of Arizona, covering tho earth to the depth of a couple of inches, a thing extremely rare in any pavt of tho winter; and frosts are reported from some of the more Southern States of tho Union. All this tells Ui not that there is to be an exceptionally exception-ally hard winter, but that it is here. The following, which we take from a Loudon paper, is pertinent in this eou-ucetion, eou-ucetion, and will bo read with some degree de-gree of interest, whatever credence- may be placed in it: The Urdu Akhar s,ijs that Maulvi Muhammed Sahimiyamaii, tho famous fa-mous astronomer of liampur, v;ho;-e t deductions havo generally turned out right, has foretold (hat in the cumins year a blaze of light rcsembiinsj a shooting star, the like cf which no mortal has yet seen, will be visible in tlie.-icy. "It will dazzle the eves of the people of particular places with Initio, and, after remaining for a gh'iri (i.e., :M minutes-,) will vanish. The direction in which it w ill make its appearance ap-pearance will be llie North l'ole, and accordingly the prjilo of northern countiies willicc it diainetly," Famine will follow in its trar:k. |