Produced by Ray Schumacher
From Teheran To Yokohama
By Thomas Stevens
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., April 10, 1887.
The season of 1885-86 has been an exceptionally mild winter in thePersian capital. Up to Christmas the weather was clear and bracing,sufficiently cool to be comfortable in the daytime, and with crisp,frosty weather at night. The first snow of the season commenced fallingwhile a portion of the English colony were enjoying a characteristicChristmas dinner of roast-beef and plum-pudding, at the house of thesuperintendent of the Indo-European Telegraph Station, and during Januaryand February, snow-storms, cold and drizzling rains alternated with briefperiods of clearer weather. When the sun shines from a cloudless sky inTeheran, its rays are sometimes uncomfortably warm, even in midwinter; afoot of snow may have clothed the city and the surrounding plain in asoft, white mantle during the night, but, asserting his supremacy on thefollowing morning, he will unveil the gray nakedness of the stony plainagain by noon. The steadily retreating snow line will be driven back-backover the undulating foot-hills, and some little distance up the ruggedslopes of the Elburz range, hard by, ere he retires from view in theevening, rotund and fiery. This irregular snow-line has been steadilylosing ground, and retreating higher and higher up the mountain-slopesduring the latter half of February, and when March is ushered in,