sTROPIC OA r./FORYIA. 
fiic Climate* 
SOME RANDOM RETLECTIOR8 0PON THE 
WEATHER. 
Now ihtl Zero has been been Ml, ami 
the gentle aephyra have boe-n Mowing 
ilonns, pairs, and destruction on tb«Olln r 
side ol the Rookie.', -your correspond. nt 
feel/, like making, for your Christimv. num 
ber, a thanksgiving theme of the mild and 
genial MSMHt Southern California has en- 
With the exception tif one or two mid 
waves during the winter, nipping tender 
sbtwt* anti trees in Home aeotions, ami u 
wird storm or two, prostrating a few tree*, 
in the vicinity of Anaheim, we nano, i 
chronicle any further damage or dlaturl. 
ance during the entire year. The lowest 
ern Staler in regard to thunder storms 
and tornadoes Oulv those who have wit¬ 
nessed the storms of’Florida ami the lower 
Mississippi can testify to the fearfulness of 
their thunder storms. 
We thank Hr, <Irigg, in his nbln article 
recently published ill your monthly, for 
calling atierilum to tin* fact of our exemp¬ 
tion from such storms, and regret that he 
did not emphaau" it more strongly. We 
do n> t wonder at the remark of one who 
had witriL-v^ d -uch storms in all their *e 
verily — the late IV/. Agassi/. When 
j npcafimg t" the people here, he said that 
I "they might to lift up both hands and 
[thank find for being in the *ono of cnlm*." 
| l!o struck a key note (or Southern Cali fur* 
I ma which should resound throughout the 
! length and breadth of the land. Head the . 
accounts of the storms hurricanes, and tor- 1 
undoes ranging from Maine tu Florida, and 
from Minnesota to Louisiana, as published 1 
in the Hastem papers. Look at the long 
have spent some part 
tl, re' 
_ rt of it out of doors. 
The nights are ooof, requiring warm blank¬ 
et* t‘> sleep in comfort, ami not one night 
can Ih> mentioned during the whole year 
but that one or two blankets were neces¬ 
sary, and during a residence of over seven 
years only one night has been found when 
ime blanket was uncomfortable—• ratio of 
one t» 2,tt00. What a luxury some of 
tho«e nights would have been to a Cincin¬ 
natian, ft Louiavilliati, or a citiz«n of St. 
Louis, where wn have known thirty nights 
in *m oesaion with the thermometer in the 
niiiBlie-. 
To-day- a fair Sample of December’s 
early-winter day—with coat off, we have 
picked olives front ft tree in the garden). 
Part of this article has been written with 
door unrl window open, ami the thermom 
otar in the shade. 
A !• tier from one of Ohio’s favorite sons 
last season, dated at Pnris, who had previ¬ 
ously 'pent a winter in Southern t'alifor- 
TOTfio'g’roBET 
point indicated hen- by tho signal ter vie., 
thermometer was 32 e . 
If wo were all, like Macau ley, of remark 
able memory and large experience, it would 
not be tmgauiy to mike a 0<.mp»fi.on of 
our delightful season*, but while nim u 
Dine oius-bundredtlcx of us are like litt’l- 
cbildren, requiring “Ime upm, li», «.,d ,, r e 
eept on precept,” governed aompwhnt by 
the feeling* of rbc moment, it b« . • .11.. - 
proper t- remind tlv** of u» who base 
hern croaking about our Wi-allu-r In bear iu 
mind that although the m um.,, m»> r . 
although 1 
icn, Cab lor 
otl du< 
mg |»n year than the imnli Caleb rate- 
ter rewirUi of Southern Europe; thirty-six 
time* belter off. a* regards storms, than all 
the balance of the United States- thirty 
ihtlH better eff tlian a portion of the s ; .,n li¬ 
ar n teutea ami all the Northern Vuu- 
io r.-it.rJ ,0 cold u.d »i„d ,„j 
MtfiroUily better off than th« wanner South 
list of shipwrecks along the wleiltt coast of 
tho Atlantic. See tie- unprecedented mim 
her of disasters upon Lake* Erie ami Mich-1 
.g,.n, not only <mc*s but one. a mi.mli f.„ ' 
two month* In auootfsaion. Thou »«y if (hi* 
j remark uf lVf. Agassi* should not lie cm- 
bla/otied along the highways and posted 
over the door* of every Ik mao in lb* limit/ 
A r 111-of t abus ! Think of it, ye dwell, 
ers in tin* path* where tornadoes Uugh »i 
ovrrturncU houses, upruuted true*, ami ( n i r 
heltls devastated ! 
A /-.r.e of mild Weather! Tho highest 
point rcurbed, ** reported by this signal 
service, *4'" ! Tiums of it, ye dimieena of 
a fror.cn wtie, imprisoned within walls of 
wood, brick ami atone, rrbreathing the ft-rid 
atmosphere of depleted oxygen ! 
VVe have been complaining of the alight 
«.<»i| weather which wo have experienced, 
and yrl my memory fail* to recall a whole! 
day but that a convalescing invalid might 
in, and whose family desired to aee Ku 
rope, reported th> winter rwaarta of Sooth* 
••rn Europe an oultl that tho wltr In party 
were obliged n> go to Africn to get warm, 
th.enl Chicago’* ponninrnt men said, Inst 
wini'i when nomplainU of cold weather 
w. r.' bong made, “Tin. is delightful; if 
you have DM . Older weather than this I shall 
lie oBtiafled." lie returned home, but two 
invalid members of hi* family remain, ami 
arc d. nog well. 
Two prominen) railroad men spending 
pan ol last winter Imre, who had wintered 
in Southern Europe, preferred Southern 
vapfornjt. 
liy ns much a* the climate of Southern 
California is preferable in a normal omil* 
i tmn. when Hoods, snow, and storm* abound 
“Mwhero, hy so much more will it be pro- 
feral. <• in an almurmal condition, when gen- 
disturbances o CC ur, when tho pianola 
