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Ontonagon, Mich. — Brilliant aurora 25tli, red and white rays streamed 

 from bright arch to zenith. No frost since April, 



Vevay, Ind. — The Ohio very low, delaying travel and mails. 



Knightfifown, Ind. — Ground plowed last spring uot yet settled by 

 rains. 



La Forte, Ind. — Grand aurora 24th, red light west and east, rosy spot 

 at zenith emitted white and green rays in all directions, and waves of 

 light flashed over large bands in the north. 



Chicago, III. — Splendid aurora 24th to 25th, streamers bright red, and 

 once the whole sky was a bright haze. 



Marengo, III. — Auroras, bright 3d and 25th, brilliant 24th, streamers 

 playing with great velocity, corona south of zenith, rays east and north- 

 west, deep crimson, and one in east green. 



Aurora, III. — Fine September, maples changing color. 



Golconda, III. — Very pleasant month, some fogs but no frost. 



Belvidere, III. — Aurora 24th, grand display, bright as moonlight, red 

 and yellow streamers, luminous over three-fourths of the sky. IsTo frost 

 since April 29th ; month unusually warm. 



Wijanet, 111. — Aurora 24th to 25th, illumined the whole heavens through 

 the clouds, equal to the light of a full moo]i. 



Sturgeon Bay, Wis. — Tornado with rain from soutli, followed by wind 

 from southeast, with large hail, 7th; auroras 24th, 25th. 



Manitoivoc, V/is. — Auroras, beams to zenith 3d, arch 20th and 25th, 

 with beams 17th, 18th, and 2Gth, with beams from east to west through 

 zenith, and corona southeast of zenith, from which streamed white and 

 purple rays in all directions, the whole sky in motion like sheet-lightning, 

 24th and a. m. 25th. 



Geneva, ^Vis. — Aurora 24tli, the greater i)art of the sky lighted with 

 bright undulating waves of electricity. IS^o dark bank or spots. 



Roclcy Run, TFis. — Auroras 4th, with smoky base, electric flashes to 

 zenith, and electric clouds 15*^ south of zenith. On 24th to 25th, misty 

 light, flashing to zenith, diffuse 18th, 20th, 28th and 30th. 



Mosinee, Wis. — Wet last antl this month ; i^otatbes rotting in ground. 



Barahoo, Wis. — Birds singing, and vegetation green. 



Minneai}olis, Minn. — Only one September in fifteen years as warm. 



Sibley, Minn. — Splendid auroras all night 24th, 25th; could read by 

 the red flashes, which seemed to move horizontally only twenty feet 

 from the ground. 



Konislca, Minn. — Slight frost 2Gth ; vines unhurt ; leaves not falling. 



New XJhn, Minn. — Auroras, streamers, 3d, 18th; magnificent 24th to 

 25th ; the entire horizon a waving fiiT. ; streamers from all sides formed 

 a splendid corona in zenith ; they became red after midnight, and floated 

 southeast as before a wind, to be renewed by fresh electric flashes from 

 the sides. 



Clinton, Iowa. — Warmth very uniform ; no frost ; vegetation green. 



Bowen''s Prairie, loioa. — A lovely month ; no frost ; springs very low. 



Guttenherg, Iowa. — Pleasantest September in twenty-one years. 



Boonesboro, Iowa. — Aurora, 24th, with arch, and red, white, blue, and 

 yellow lights flickering upward rapidly. At 9.30 spread to 45° south, 

 and formed corona 20° south of zenith, forming a vast tent of white, 

 illumined by colors, red predominating. After midnight arch formed 

 again, with scolloped upper edge, emitting flaming spires of red, blue, 

 violet, and yellow, while cirrus clouds of white light danced to and fro 

 like lightning. 



Logan, Iowa. — More rain than in any month in eleven years. 



Hematite, Mo. — Auroras, arch, corona, and white, yellow, green, and 



