Show THE CAUSE OF IT it is worthy of remark that the unusual weather which has characterized this spring haa not been confined to utah but haa extended all over this country and the old world as well in tins territory the season is at least eix weeks later than usual an unprecedented ce occurrence in thia land of sun chine where the vernal season nearly always sets in early foster and the army of weather sharps who foretell alie 1 storm with a considerable degree of accuracy or else make very close eness cs are not responsible but the astronomers explain it all this they eay is the sun spot period we quote from an exchange that thia time the sun ie having bad apell of it it la badly broken out the astrino i mera who took in the eclipse from abo summit of tho andes say that the sun has not had such for years ita actions show it to be greatly disturbed it has painted tho atmosphere scarlet for hundreds of miles within its vicinity and has sent out streamers to the distance of miles into space alie astronomers and statisticians figure out that the periods when the sun lias biad severe attacks of spots have uniformly been periods when this globe has had virulent attacks of rainwater rain water and kindred phenomena alio way alie earth lias been visited with rain and snow during tho past six weeks we may judge of abo way the sun has had spots this last time but the sun spot period is not one for grief according to the estimates of statisticians for they find that such periods of moisture have as a rule been the big crop periods and conse the periods of prosperous trade and good times generally let ua therefore keep up our umbrellas and a stiff upper lip and watch out for alie good times coming |