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...clouds over the lake are often colder than the water. As a result, warm air laden with moisture rises into the clouds, intensifying the storm. Normally, the most significant impact of the DLE is to enliven the skiing season with a few extra feet of snow. But in the 1870s the lake swelled to an alltime high of 4,211.6 ft. above sea level. In 1983, April showers followed an exceptionally snowy winter and led to this year's peak of 4,209.25 ft. Larger in an average year than Rhode Island, the lake has grown...
...more detailed and painstaking work. Bear heads, for instance, were carved on newel posts, faithful to an old photograph and to a few pieces of the original stairway which were found in a Sacramento church. The mint-green assembly chamber now dazzles visitors with its crystal chandeliers and 1870s carved desks. The smaller but richer senate chamber blushes with rose carpeting and brocade drapery. Nine other rooms, including offices of former Governors, have been restored as an exhibit at a cost of $1.7 million...
...blue cat of some popularity. Blues are shy, retiring and fond of winter. The Siamese came to the ancient royal family of Siam from somewhere else. No one knows where. This most neurotic, intelligent and wonderfully expressive feline made its U.S. debut with Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes in the 1870s. The spirited, assertive Somali is a long-haired Abyssinian with agouti coloring-each hair is individually striped with brown or black. With its habit of pacing back and forth, it often resembles a miniature mountain lion...
...those a bit more elevated was a young Cleveland widow by the name of Julia Tuttle, who moved to Miami in the 1870s. The city then was a makeshift village of shacks and sand trails hacked out of palmetto groves. When a freeze destroyed the citrus crop of central Florida in 1894, Tuttle picked a bouquet of orange blossoms untouched by the frost and sent it to Financier Henry Flagler as proof that South Florida was worth a look. Flagler, who was already building up St. Augustine, came, saw and was conquered; he built a railway to Miami and beyond...
...expounds the latest theories on asthma; young Roosevelt's matriculation at Harvard is the occasion for an evocative set piece on undergraduate life in the 1870s; after the graduate becomes a New York assemblyman at the age of 23, McCullough weaves in a marvelous little essay on Tammany-style logrolling...