Life In Manitoba.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 9, 9 June 1885, Page 2

Life In Manitoba.

"Silver Pen," writing to the Auckland Herald, says: — I have lately been listening 1 to a true story from a woman who Ims wintered in this cold region, and it may interest your readers to h ar a few frozen facts She vaya that one pardon of the winter i.-s so cold that the snow is ten feet deep from November to April. Mocassins tire used instead of shoes, drawn over many pairs of stockings. As> the cold increases, people become frozen^ withnut knowing it. Portions of iheir bodies freeze, and theirs is no attendant pain, and you only discover when parts of your face ai*o frogen by looking in the glass. The part becomes perfectly brittle, and breaks off, A man, having his ear frozen, put up his hand to feel it, when it broke off, and fell on his plate. A dog had both his ears broken off crisply, when frozen. Of courve, there is a chance of you thawing out. provided you do not fill to pieces beforehand. People lose their legs and arms iu this way, ami no moderate degree of heat will ihaw you out. In this snblinre region the- mustard freezes in the pot, and the bread liecomes hard as a rock between meals, even thoughjajfire burns in the grate. I should like to put a few women I know in Manitoba for a spell, to see if their tongues would freeze and break off. What a fine phu-e for tried husbands.