then regis 90°, has fallen below 50°.
Since bron pere thermometer, which This change has made fires during the past week a necessity. North-east winds kept the temperature low and were followed by the heaviest rains we have had here for eight months. These have continued with but short intervals for more than a week; they were succeded by several flashes of lightning and heavy thunder. Already there is a decidedly pleasant change in the appearance of Nature as well as in the countenances of farmers and tradesmen. Farmers rejoicing that rains have fallen gleefully exclaim, "Saved, saved from fam-me!" We hopes. Tradesmen are not less joyous, though less demonstrative. Trees and lens which hitherto were barren and dry are now arranging themselves in tinted leaf and new grass; while domestic animals now graze off the tender grass of the hill slopes and. ind in the city. 'A welcome change for them. The rains have fallen too late to produce a wheat crop;
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