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A Very Cold Summer In Europe

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
July
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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J? rotu the other side of the Atlantic thore is increasing intelligeuco of the most abnonnal weather, which will be likely to mar the pleasure of Amorican tourists, and to affect agricultual interests sorioualy. When, within a week or two of the aummer solstice, dainaging frosts afflict a country, as they have this year afflicted Great Britain, the prospecta of husbandry muat be greatly jeopardized. An English cotemporary states that the temperatura for the week ending June 20, as recorded at the Roy al Observatory (Green wich), feil 5.5 below the mean for the last fifty years. The Tweed, it is said, bas not been so low since 1826, when corn was so' short in the stalk it was pulled by the hand. The droughts have been so extensive that the hay harvest has been very short and the cattle have suffered distressingly, while the unseasonable dryness has been relieved only by destructivo hail-storins. The alarming feature of the season is deficiency of temperature requisito for graiu ripening, and this appeara to extend boyond the British Isles. In the north of Italy the frequency of tremendou8 hailstorms is anoiualous, and indicatea an extremely low thermometer, which is auything but auspicious for health or harvest. Some of the old Italian churches and other magnificent public edifices have suffered severely in these tempests, and we have reporta of the streets oí' Milán being covered with wounded and dead birds, finding no escape from the icy elementa. Indeed, it would seem that the wholenorthern hemisphere, including our own continent, has so far, notwithstanding occasïonal outbursts of excessive heat, experienced an extraordinaty thormal depressïon during the summer.

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Michigan Argus