A SEVERE WINTER.
As U an unprecedentedly hot sumner were not infliction enough for one year, unhappy Hussia (says an txchange) is now plunged into on" of the severest winters that are remembered. The thermometer remains ; perseveringly at 20deg: below zero (i.eaumur); a railroad is built on the ice between Cronsta it and Ornaienbaum, and travels rsgularly. in the streets of lhe capital are seen only persons forced by necessity to leave tbeir warm and comfortable houses (for in Russia or.c never suffers of cold indoors); » be sledge d.'ivers have their cheeks frozen, and present a most pitiful aspect. Though the sky is pure the rays of the sun have no "a mth, and only seem to aggravate the cold. This very severe weath r is usually attended with a sensible diminution of epidemic illnesses, but this year they reign without iuter•i.ission, -especially diphtheria and smallfox. The St. Petersburg homoeopathists have in vain striven to obtain the right to open a hospital for children attacked by these diseases, inviting the great stars of allopathy to come and observe, and then fairly state facts to the public. — World
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 75, 6 March 1883, Page 3
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187A SEVERE WINTER. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 75, 6 March 1883, Page 3
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