Show forty days of snow from the scientific american the fol lewing following statistics odthe of the good old winters aru are curious in the black sea wae was entirely frozen over in not only u I the black sea but the straits of the tle dardanelles Darda nelles frozen ever over the snow in some places rose fifty feet high in the great rivers of europe the danube tho the elbe etc were so hard frozen as tor ta bear heavy wagons for a month in the adriatic was frozen in everT everything thing was frozen the crops totally failed and famine and pestilence closed the year in 1067 the most of the travelers in germany were frozen to death on tile roads in 1133 the tile po was frozen from front cremona to the sea the wi wine be casks were burst and even the trees split by the action of the frost with immense noise in 1236 the danube was frozen to the bottom and remained long lono in that state in 1316 the crops entirely failed in germany the wheat which some years before sold in england at 63 the quarter rose to xa in 1339 the crops failed in scotland and such a famine ensued that the poor were reduced to feed on grass and many perished i s bed miserably in the fields field wr the successive winters of 1432 33 34 were buncom conly severe it once snowed forty day without interruption in 1468 the wine distributed to the soldiers in in flanders had to be cut out with hatchets Lat ellets in 1684 the winter was excessively cold most of the hollies ollies li were killed coaches drove along the thames the ice of which waa was eleven inches thick in 1709 occurred the cold winter the frost penetrated three yards into tho the ground in the winter of 1716 1715 booths were wore erected and fairs held on the thames in 1744 and 1745 the strongest est ale in england exposed to the air was covered in less im than fifteen minutes with ice an eighth of an inch thick la 1809 and again in 1812 the winters w were ere remarkably cold in 1814 there was a fair on the frozen thames |