I At present every indication justifies us
in llu* belief that the number of fish
of the several species distributed will
be greater than any preceding year,
1 and that this will be the most success
ful year in our work since the inau
gural >n of the commission.
The commissioners and superintend
ent will go to Milwaukee this morning
to look over the state hatchery there
land attend to other business.
TERRIBLE WEATHER.
Europe Has Seen Nothing Jake It iu
Modern Times.
loudon, .lan. b. —A dispatch from
tire Isle of Wight. where tiic queen is
at present sojourning, says that the
mercury registers nine degrees above
zero (Fahrenheit), which is the low
est point it has reached in a hundred
years. The river in the isle of Wight,
which empties into the. Solent, is
frozen over to within a few yards of
the Solent.
In <'ornWiill the cold is greater than
before experienced in fifty years. In
Hyde Park. Ixmdon, the thermometer
registered 11 degrees above zero. The
Thames from Windsor to Teddington
is frozen over. A number of trading
vessels are fast iu the ioe.
Snow has been falling in the county
of W*st Moreland, northern England,
for twenty-four hours, and the storm
shows no signs of cessation. The
roads in every direction have been ren
dered impassable by the drifts. Dis
patches from various outlying districts
in the midland counties report the non
arrival of mail carts. The intensity of
the cold in Cornwall may be judged
from the fact tfiat many of the inlets
of the sea there are partly frozen over.
The suffering of the poor all over the
country is terrible.
