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Show early days that were witnessed in Utah when the grasshopers ate up everything. Year Without Summer. The following interesting item is found in Vickery's Fireside Visitor for April, 1896, under the above caption: "Seventy Nine years ago was the year without a summer. Frost oc-cured oc-cured every month in the year 1816, Ice found half an inch thick in May. Snow fell to the depth of three inches inch-es in New York, and also in Massachusetts Massa-chusetts in june. Ice was formed of the thickness of window glass, throughout New York on the 5th day of July. Indian Corn was so frozen that the greater part was cut in August, dried for feed, and the Farmers supplied themselves from the corn produced in 1815 for the seeding of the spring of 1817." The Visiter has made a slight mistake mis-take or else we are mistaken. If you take 18 16 from 1896, it leaves 80, it being 80 years ago instead of 79. The Year 1896, thus far, has been a Very strange season, intermingled with cold and heat. On the night of the 10th of may, 1 896, the mercury ran down to 28, and in the day time of the nth it ran up to 80. This is a change with a Vengeance and portrays that something out of the usual routine is surely taking place, but we sincerely hope that we will yet see a fair harvest this year, for if we do not, there may be a necessity neces-sity for our people to go back to the |
