Show different climates an erroneous idea generally prevails respecting climate aa as affecting personal comfort the dwellers in the sunny south pity the new En englanders landers because doomed te shiver in so col coi cold a climate they in turn bless their stars that they are not wading in the snows of newfoundland I 1 have been fed led by observation and experience to doubt whether wh effier the people of any one country have much if any advantage in the matter of cli cil climate over others our ideas of pleasure and pain are intimately connected with if not based upon the principle of contrast in our idea of temperature we have less regard to the actual than to the comparative degree of warmth in the report of one of the exploring expeditions inthe in the northern seas it is bald said said baid that on 0 a certain ka 1 in occasion the crews were wera great greatly Y elated with the signs of a thaw the mercury having risen to within 40 degrees below zero I 1 having to a much in tenser de degree deree i ree I 1 I 1 of cola cold coid they felt as did the boy whose fa father ther I 1 had llad administered to him a severe flagellation b 1 greatly refreshed 1 it may be doubted whether the people of i maine alaine A suffer more from cold than do those of virginia touching the weather it is much as it is with the tariff all that the people want ia is to have the line of government policy settled to know what can be depended upon so of the weather the down easter caster knowing that from the middle of november to the middle of april the ground is to be lile covered with snow and uninterrupted cold weather is to prevail he wraps his fur coat about him inmates hla 14 lunga braces up his bis nerves and thinks no rid more ak 0 the cold than the russian bear frear awe the dwellers in the old dominion on the ouie otle other ther hand regarding warm weather as the rule ruie r and cold as the thi exception make no pro vision for the latter but when the northern 1 i blasts bome as they will come he fie wraps his ng fig leaf coat about him and seeks shelter within the inclosure of his airy in angion mansion so constructed ted as to exclude heat rather than cold t then there is another consideration which greatly favors dwellers in cold latitudes while the earth is covered with shiow snow there is but little evaporation the atmosphere is consequently dry and storms are where there is no snow it is far othera otherwise ise lse the whole surface being covered with water evaporation is rapid and the atmosphere is surcharged with vapor and the peculiar chill int ing which characterize a march wind in new england angland Sn gland prevail id dining daring iring tring the winter months agriculturally ag the snowy region has many advantages it is better for the soil to be covered durin during the winter months that there I 1 is s any virtue in the rei rel remark nark isnow snow is the peor mans manure man tire 1 I 1 dont believe but bot certain it ft is 3 that grasses and grains are benefited by being thus thua protected snow is an imperfect conductor of caloric consequently the surface being protected from the cold of midwinter mid whiter winter the fleat heat from within dissolves the frost and when the snow digap lears in the spring the frost is e gone one from the soil it Is not uncommon to find the grass growing eore e ore one the snow is off fields are ate ready for soon after they are bare so that stock will live and seed ma may y ie be gotten into the ground round nearly as soon in vermont aa as in connecticut then for doing business the snow snowy regions li have ve greatly the advantage lum lumbering n g is with great ireat difficulty carried on where there is no snow the lumber lands in maryland and virginia would be worth twice as much as they no noih are with north northern ern winters for the removal of the lumber ER R B IL II in plough loom and anvil |