Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1889 — The Christmas Weather. [ARTICLE]

The Christmas Weather.

Milwaukee Sentinel. “A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard,” says the old proverb. “If Christmas finds a bridge,” says another, “he’ll break it; if he finds none, he’ll make one.” Which means that if there is ice at Christmas there will be an early thaw; and if not there will be plenty of mighty cold weather. There are any number of old proverbs to show that a mild Christmas means much sickness and also a late soring: Christmas on th* balcony. Easter near the fire-brands. The past Christmas was > green one, but not in the sense in which the proverb, means. It is a damn Christmas and warm that indicates a full graveyard. It is a question, too, whether any .musty proverb can be made to apply to the phenomenal weather of this winter. So far all the generaliza tions of weather sharps have been confounded, and whether we have a white Christmas or not, we may look for an early soring. If it is true, as Sergeant Rhodes avows, that the mass of ice in the lakes has much influeace on the temperature in this region, the hope of a spring earlier than common is well founded. Whatever happens, November and December have been delightful months, with no storms and no cold, and let the Arctic fiend blow his coldest blasts, he can’t undo it