ly 1 to 10--very
remarkable difference in favor of our city. Only last summer a gentleman
residing in the eastern part of our State collected and compared the
health statistics for 1876 of all the prominent cities in the United
States. The result showed that

BUFFALO OUTRANKS ALL IN HEALTHFULNESS.

A great deal of precious breath has been expended in blustering about
"Buffalo zephyrs," as our delightful lake breezes are sometimes
ironically termed. It seems to be a popular belief among our sister
cities that old Boreas has chosen Buffalo for his headquarters. When we
hear a person dilating upon "Buffalo's terrific winds," we are reminded
of one of our lady acquaintances who recently returned from a European
tour. She was asked how she enjoyed her sea voyage, and she replied,
"Oh, it was delightful, really charming! There is something so grand
about the sea!" We were not a little surprised at this enthusiastic
outburst, as we had been told by a member of her party that the lady had
industriously vomited her way to Hamburg and back again. But the lady's
enthusiasm was easily explained. It is fashionable to characterize sea
voyages as delightful, charming, etc. Now, we suspect this popular
notion about our "trying winds" is traceable to the same source. It has
become customary to call Buffalo a "windy place," and so, when the
traveler feels a slight lake breeze, he imagines it to be a terrific
gale. Whatever may have originated this notion, certain it is that it is
utterly, undeniably false; and, in making this denial, we are not alone
dependent upon observation, but upon the

FACTS OF SCIENCE.

The issue of July 18, 1874, of the Buffalo _Commercial Advertiser_,
contained a series of tables, furnished by the Signal Service Bureau,
showing the velocity of the wind at eleven prominent cities for the year
1873. An examination of the table shows that the total velocity for the
year was the _lowest in Buffalo_ of any of the lake ports; while
Philadelphia and New York showed far higher aggregates of velocity than
our city. On this subject, in the issue of August 21st of the same year,
the editor pleasantly remarks: "Only the interior and southern seaboard
cities, and not many of them, show a lower total velocity of wind than
is marked against this city; and as for those places, heaven help their
unfortunate inhabitants in the sultry nights of the summer season, when
they are gasping in vain for a breath of that pure,