SOME REMARKABLE WINTERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 55, 5 March 1877, Page 4

SOME REMARKABLE WINTERS

Now is the time to trot out par graphs about remarkable winters — winteis tbat have distinguished themselves by being either colder or warmer than the law allows. No well-regulated nawspaper, will neglect its duty. Referring back to our files, we find that in 1172 tbe temperature was so high tbat leaves came out on the trees in January, and birds batched their broods iu February. In 1289 the weather was equally mild, and the maidens of Cologne wore wreaths of violets and cornflowers at Christmaß and Twelfth Day. In 1321 tbe trees flowered in the month of Marcb, and the vines io the month cf April. Cherries ripened in the same year in the month of April. Peaches appeared in May,ond little boys commenced falling out of apple trees a little later. In 1572 the trees were covered with leaves in January, and the birds hatched their young in February, as in 1172. In 1588 tbe same thing was repeated, and it is added that the corn was in ear at Easter. To the best of our memory there was in France neither snow nor frost throughout the winters of 1538 1607, 1609, 1617, 1659; finally, injl662, even in the north of Germany, the stoves weie oot lighted, trees flowered in February, and outdoor bouqueta were showered on the newspaper offices without number. It seems but as yesterday. Coming to later dales, the winter of 2846-47, when it thundered at Paris on the. 28th of January, aud that of 1866, tbe year of the inundation of the Seine, may be mentioned as very mild, — New London Telegram.