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Coming at this season of the year, the cold snap has done no damage. 

 In fact, judged from a hygienic standpoint, the desiccating north wind is a 

 blessing, serving, as it does, to dry up and obliterate the germs which 

 produce disease. 



What the Signal Service Observer Says. — He Gives Some Valuable 



and Interesting Reading. 



It has been said by some doubting Californians that Dr. Logan's mini- 

 mum or lowest temperature of 19° during the cold winter of 1853-54 was 

 not correct; that they did not believe that such a low temperature was 

 recorded on that occasion. Let those persons hold their peace, for after a 

 lapse of thirty-four years a second occurrence of such a low minimum tem- 

 perature has made its appearance. 



THE EARLY MORNING. 



The Signal Service minimum thermometer at 4 o'clock this morning, 

 was 24°, and between that time and sunrise, it had fallen to 19°, or exactly 

 the same minimum temperature that Dr. Logan recorded in January, 1854. 

 It is to be hoped that the doctor's record will no longer be disputed, for 

 the above shows that he was a painstaking and careful observer during 

 the early days, when nothing was thought of but gold, gold, gold; but the 

 doctor found it cold, cold, cold, for that particular year. 



EVERY THIRTY YEARS. 



Dr. Bennett, of England, says that about once in thirty years there is an 

 extraordinary cold wave blows down the Alps Mountains to the north of 

 the great citrus belt and winter resorts of Northern Italy. These excep- 

 tionally cold waves come rushing down the canons and kill all orange and 

 lemon trees that are not planted in protected places. 



COLD WAVES IN FLORIDA. 



Florida has such cold waves at certain intervals. It will be remembered 

 when the last one visited that State; the average newspaper man of Cali- 

 fornia came out in learned and labored articles to prove that such cold 

 weather blasts could not possibly occur in California, although Dr. Logan's 

 record was before them. 



THE THREE CITRUS DISTRICTS. 



To-day's minimum temperature shows that the three great citrus dis- 

 tricts of the northern hemisphere are alike liable, at long intervals, to be 

 visited by an exceptionally cold wave; therefore, let us be charitable 

 toward other countries that boast of citrus belts. 



THE BEST IN THE WORLD. 



We all know that this, our glorious State, is the most free, finest, and 

 best in the known world. The Signal Service reports at 4 o'clock a. m., 

 show an extremely high barometer, accompanied by a cold wave in Wash- 

 ington Territory, Oregon, and California; in California, a gale from the 

 north has been blowing all night, which is, in a measure, the cause of this 



