Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1884 — Cold Snaps. [ARTICLE]

Cold Snaps.

In October, 763, and February, 764, the denizens of the cities of mosques and minarets were astonished by a cold spell of weather, and the two seas of Constantinople were frozen over for twenty days. In 1063 the Thames was frozen over for fourteen weeks. In 1407 the cold was so intense in England that all the small birds perished,and in 1433 the large sows of the air were driven by the terrible cold into the towns and cities of Germany. In 1468 the winter was so severe in Flanders that the wine distributed was cut with hatchets. t The year 1658 was noted for cold weather in England. Thousands of forests and shade trees were split by frost, birds and stook perished, a line of stages ran on the Thames for several weeks, and shops were built on the ice in the middle of the Thames. In 1691 the wolves were driven by the cold into Vienna, where they attacked men and cattle on the streets. In 1310 quicksilver froze in the ther-mometer-bulbs at Moscow. One erf the most remarkable changes of temperature was witnessed at Hornsey and Hammersmith, near London, in 1867 i The thermometer was 3 degrees below zero on the'4th of January and seventytwo hours late it had leaped to 55 degrees above zero. With respect to America some of the remarkable cold spells were as follows: Iu 1730, and again in 1821, New< York harbor was frozen over so that teams were driven across the ice to Staten Island. The Western State of Indiana saw Weather cold enough to congeal the mercury in 1855. The winter of 1881 was made memorable by cold weather. Op the 13th and 26th days of January many deaths occurred from the intense eold, and the residents of Mobile saw the thermometer sink to zero. A record of cold sieges would be imperfect without a mention of the terrible sadden storm that swept over the country in 1863, which has gone into history as the cold New Year’s. A drayman was frozen to death in Cincinnati while driving along the street; a man climbing a fence in Minnesota froze to death and toppled over into the snow, while the loss of human and animal lives in all ports of the country was immense.

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