EASTERN AND WESTERN WINTER WEATHER.
THE following is what one Eastern visitor at the Midwinter Fair said:— "I could hardly get to the railway station in my town for the snow drifts. The street cars were not running, and the horses of a hack on wheels could scarcely plunge along fast enough for me to make my train. Once on board the train I read in a daily paper, for this was January 28, that the California Midwinter Exposition had been formally opened on the preceding day, with thousands of people seated on a grand stand in the open air, with heads uncovered under a broiling sun, and with the green foliage of a beautiful park forming a background to the scene. At different places along the railway where we stopped for a few moments, I noticed bulletins of 'Midwinter Exposition Weather,' and the thought struck me that this was about the most striking piece of advertising that could be done in connection with California's Exposition. When one stands in an atmosphere in the neighborhood of zero, and reads that the thermometer registers 75 degrees in San Francisco, one wishes to be there, and as for myself, I was glad to feel that I was on my way. At Chicago I was delayed several hours waiting for it to become possible for trains to start on westward, and we dragged along across the plains, but when we began to descend the slopes of the Sierras, we left the snows behind us, and found the green fields at our feet, for we were, indeed, in the land of sunshine, fruit, and flowers, and I intend to stay here just as long as I feel I can afford to."