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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 remem- 

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

 California 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 causeof this 

 extreme and very unusual low temperature at Sacramento, because it came 

 directly off the snow and ice of the mountains, and moving so rapidly that 

 it has no time to be warmed by slowly passing over the warmer region of 

 the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, but reaches us with almost the 

 same breath that it left the mountains. 



ICE IN THE RIVER. 



Captain Foster, of the Steamboat Company, says this is the first time 

 since 1854 that he has noticed ice floating down the Sacramento River. It 

 has been floating down this morning, measuring about one sixteenth of an 

 inch in thickness, and no doubt, these thin spiculse of ice formed along 

 the shores of the American and Sacramento Rivers above this city, and by 

 the force of the high northerly winds were broken loose from the shores, 

 grinding them together and blowing them into the current of the two 

 streams mentioned above. 



HIGHEST AND LOWEST TEMPERATURE. 



The temperature at 4 a. m. was 24°; between that time and sunrise it 

 fell to 19°; at 8:10 a. m. it was 21°; at 9:20 a. m. 23.5°; at 10:25 a. m. 26°; 



