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Show OUR BLIZZARD ABROAD. The back rations of cold weather due us ou three exceptionally miid winters have missed connections somehow aud been dumped upon Europe aud Asia. "Sunny Italy" is having as much snow and ice as it ever had in the time of Iloratius Flaerin.' The street cars in Naples are snow bouud, the orange groves of the Mediterranean coasts and islands are weighted down with half a foot of snow and the ice in some of tho Mack Sea harbors is nine feet thick. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Another effect we may look for from the cold European winter is a large immigration im-migration in the spring. This alway follows a war, a famine, or anything prodticting distress among the people. The ery fact that their American relatives re-latives are able to send them money to help them through "a hard winter" will son e as a strong emigration iirgu-iiieiit iirgu-iiieiit and induce many thousands of persons to come to America as soon as the weather permits them to do so. New Orleans Time Democrat. lint tho most remarkable report comes from Algiers and Tunis, which are in the midst of a snowstorm so severe as to stop all travel. Fires are lighted upon the streets of Paris for the sullcring poor. Wells are frozen and water is selling at 8 cents a gallon. There is nothing in this world quite so uncertain as weather, and all the old traditions regarding climate have been shaken by the vagaries of the seasons for several years past. Indianapolis News. The western blizzard is evidently making a tour of tho old world. When last beard from it was sweeping proudly proud-ly over northern Africa on its way to discover Emin Pasha and his now province pro-vince in the heart of "Darkest Africa." It is expected that the vagrant blizzard will receive a warm reception from tho natives. Milwaukee Wisconsin. The movements of cyclone from the western side of the Atlantic toward the British Jslandsdo not directly cause the "cold waves of Europe, but they are oddities in the grand atmospheric current cur-rent which traverses the North Atlantic Atlan-tic and ultimately forms the cold auti-cvclones auti-cvclones on the continent. New York Herald. The severity of the present winter season in western Europe is said to be Without its parallel in the memory of men now liviug. Although meteorological meteorolog-ical science has made great advances, it does not yet appear to be able to give reasons for the occurence of such an unusual un-usual event Boston Herald. |