Tachients, See, June 13. Tachienla was 47 Fahrenheit. The Yesterday the temperature _of
sow came' down the mountains to 4 height of 1,000 feet above the ety
very stormy, and the' people day Was very wet, the wether fold, 'Disear ied fare, heavy woollen fEarments, and winter bedding were fain called for. Golde were pre talent and' tae common people' ex. Devienced no little discomfort. Some the foreign residents. in town found it necessary to resuscitate the Ere to keep the" house: warm and others went back to the winter use of the indispensable hot water bole 'These cold spells are not infrequent in Tachienla. Last May' the ety Twas covered by' snow for severe days and sometimes, daring. July and. Augsst the qveather hes 50 cold that nothing. short of five or six blankets snd a hot water bottle has kept the sleeper warm. When the wind blows from the Ya-Ja-Ger-high snow range, southeast of Tachienly, 21 to 25000 feet high-the inhcbitarts immediately take. fires, fars, and quilts. We read the ther day in our N. ©, H. about the Shanghai people suffering no smal inconvenience from that damp, clammy, enervating atmosphere and re looked at our thermometer Kindly hanging: around 49 Fah.
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