To the present generation that smile is irresistibly funny.

He recalls the year 1836, when the Union was founded as one of meteorological oddities.

"Tradition preserves the record of the season under the designation of the cold summer.

Weird auroras did not forbear to lift themselves in mountains of fire along the north, even in July; and more than once the canopy-aurora hung like a mock sun in the very centre of the heavens.

People predicted strange things; but the strange things did not happen.