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A Few Hot Weather Records.
Eighty degrees in the shade is
about as high a temperature as
human nature can patiently endure
for an extended period. Weather
can be so much hotter, however,
that eighty degrees would seem
blissfully cool.
Whenever an unusually hot sea
son is upon us, sweltering humanity
talks about the changes in climate
and shakes its head in a foreboding
fashion.
But let no one feel that he has
seen the worst. There have been
many superlatively hot waves in
different parts of the globe, and in
different centuries. Fortunately,
they do not come often.
new t york Roasted in 1772.
In times long gone ty people
grumbled at and enjoyed heat waves
much the same way as we do. That
they had seme scorching seasons a
dip into the records amply testifies.
For examile, in 1809, so fearfully
hot was it in Spain that the streets
of Madrid and other cities were de
serted, while laborers expired in the
fields, and the vines were scorched
and spoiled.
The summer of 1772 was a dread
ful one in New 7 York, and it is re
lated that the principal thorough
fares resembled battlefields in min
iature. people were struck down by
the score, no fewer than one hun
dred and fifty-five cases of sunstroke
occurring oa July 4. of whom nearly
ODe-balf died. The following year
in France the themometer rose to
118 degrees Fahrenheit.
France also experienced two
periods of great heat in 1704 and
1718. In the former year it was de
scribed as being ‘‘equal to that of a
glass furnace.’’ Meat could be pre
pared for the table merely by expos
ing it to the rays of the sun, and be
tween noon and four in the after
noon it was certain death to venture
out of doors, In the latter year it
was so hrt that many shops had to
close, and the theaters did not open
for three months, while not a drop
off rain fell during double that
period.
RHINE DRIED UP IN 1132.
Going back many centuries, one
comes across years when great heat
was fexperienced. In 1132 the
Rhine dried up, as it did partially,
together with the Danube, in 1303;
and that it w 7 as more than warm in
the summer of 1152 is indicated by
the statement that during that sea
son eggs were cooked merely by bi
ing placed in the sand.
That man eari exist under great
heat has often been shown, although
no one has probably demonstrated
it more clearly than did a Spaniard
on June 26, 1828. In Paris an oven
was heated to over 290 degrees Fah
renheit, and the man entered this
inferno, where he remained for five
minutes.. On emerging, his pulse
was found to be beating two hun
dred times in sixty sec'onds, but a
few minutes later he seemed none
the worse for his experiment.
This was an extreme case, for a
heat of 160 to 180 degrees Fohren
heit would appear to be the u’most
any man can remain in for an y
length of time. In this respect the
men who worked in the Comstock
silver mines in Nevada —the hottest
mines in the world —are to be pitied.
The shafts and galleries of these
mines are over 250 miles in length,
are more than 3,000 feet deep, and
at the 2,700 foot level the tempera
ture of the water is 153 degrees, and
the air 126 degrees. In another
shaft the temperature rises* to 170
degrees, and it is only possible for
men to work in it for ten or fifteen
minutes at a stretch.
HEAT IN PERSIAN GULF.
There are other parts of the world,
too, where the heat, even in the
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open air is terrible. For instance,
on the deck of a Persian Gulf steam
er 120 degrees Fahrenheit has been
recorded in the morning, while on
shore, at Muscat, a black bulb solar
themometer in the sun has register
ed 187 degrees.
Great Britain has once or twice
approached this high record. The
heat of the summer of 1826 was so
great that in some localities wheat
and barley were pulled up bv hand,
being too short in the stalk to cut
in the usual manner. The pastures
were so burned that cattle bad to
be fed on sprouts of gorse, streams
dried up, and it was years later be
fore many of them got their fish
again.
In 1851 a disastrous heat wave
was experienced in different parts
of Europe. In Hyde Park the
shade reading varied from ninty to
ninty-four degrees, in Paris during
a review scores of soldiers fell vic
tims to sunstroke, while at Aider
shot men dropped dead at drill.
Two years latter New York spent a
week in dreadful heat; the city
seemed as if it were on fire, two
hundred and fourteen people being
killed by sunstroke.
Another great heat experience
fell to the lot of the United States
in July, 1876, especially in the Mid
dle and Southern States. In Wash
ington the heat was so intense that
a prominent official declared the
car-rails became so expanded by the
action of the sun as to rise up in
curved lines, drawing the bolts. In
1881 again we stewed in an atmos
phere of 105 degrees in the shade,
and in the sSme year 101 degrees
was reached in England.
LONDON DAY BEATS RECORD.
The day really entitled to the
proud distinction of being the hot
testof the nineteenth century, in
London, was Julv 28, 1885. when
162 degrees Fahrenheit u’as regis
tered in the open air. On July 7,
1886, 155 degrees Fahrenheit was
recorded, the previous day’s reading
having been 151.5: the 4th of the
same month in the following year it
was 151.7; and on August 14, 1876,
147 degrees was registered.
The hottest place in the United
States is in Arizona. In the town
of Yuma, which is at the junction of
the Gila and Colorado rivers, in the
southwestern portion of the State,
the temperature recorded as normal
for July is 118 degrees—not high,
perhaps, when compared to the phe
nomenal jumps which the mercury
has taken, but certainly high when
one reflects on its being the normal
every-dav weather, *
FORCE OF SOLAR HEAT.
These facts and figures give some
idea of what the sun is capable of.
Of the terrific force of solar heat the
astronomers have given a wonder
ing world as good a notion as can be
conveyed by words.
For instance, Sir Robert Ball, the
famous astronomer, has stated that
if the earth were likened to a grain
of mustard-seed, the sun by the
same comparison would be as large
as a cocoanut, while the heating
power of a single square foot of its
surface would be sufficient if placed
under the boilers of an Atlantic
liner to enable her to break ihe re
cord in crossing the ‘‘herring pond.”
If the sun’s heat were maintained
by earthly means, in doing so all
the coal in existence would be con
sumed in a tenth part of a second.
Another famous astronomer in his
day, the late Richard Anthony Proc
tor explained the total heat of the
sun in another way. According to
him, it was equal to that which
would result from burning some
thing like twelve billion tons of coal
per second, and its beat would be
strong enough to melt not far short
of three trillion tons of ice in an
hour. But of this almost unthink
able force of heat the earth receives
but a small proportion —only about
one in two thousand millions of
solar rays.—Scrap Book.
A PuzzleWortn Having
Dr. G. G. Green, of Woodbury,
New Jersey, whose advertisement
appears in our paper regularly, will
mail to any one sending a two cent
stamp to pay postage, one of his
new German Syrup and August
Flower Puzzles, made of wood and
glass. It amuses and perplexes
young and old. Although very diffi
cult, it can b.e mastered. Mention
this paper
The sworn statement of the man
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n Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and
Tar- the cough syrup that drives
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HINT TO THRASHERS
REASONS THAT THEY SHOULD BE
' HIGHWAY BUILDERS.
None More Eligible to Become Good
Roadmakers, an They Are General
ly Hustlers How Their Traction
Engines Can Be Used In the Work.
The following paragraphs are from a
paper prepared for the southwestern
Thrasliermen’s convention by State
Highway Commissioner Horatio S.
Earle of Michigan. Limits of space
forbid the publication of the entire pa
per, but the suggestion to thrashermen
to go into the road building business is
an interesting jmoposition, says the
Good Roads Magazine.
Why good roads are wanted and
why they are needed by the owners of
farms, of factories, of mines and by
producers of any other material re
quiring transportation can be given in
one word—elimination.
The reason thrashing machines are
employed to separate the grain from
the straw is for the purpose of elimi
nation—that is, it is cheaper to thrash
this way than by the use of the flail or
beast stamping process, and so a por
tion of the cost of thrashing is done
away with and the money remains in
the hands of the grain producer.
There is no sentimental reason for
wishing to cut out a portion of the cost
of thrashing or of transportation. It is
simply avariciousness, a very com
mendable quality in a man if only
coupled in right proportions with the
Golden Rule doctrine.
If it costs $2 to draw one ton to
market over a bad road and only .$2 to
draw two tons over that same road
when the road has been made good,
then the good road is the machine with
which to do the thrashing—that is,
with which to eliminate a portion of
the cost of transportation, provided it
doesn’t cost more for the machine and
its repairs than is saved by its use.
Every bad road is a toll road. Al
though you may not be compelled to
drive under a shed and hand to an old
cripple your cash before going through
the gate, yet the toll is collected just
the same by Cripple Mud or Cripple
Sand, who are found along the way.
They collect the difference between
the cost of transportation over a bad
road and over a good one, and this dif
ference is never less than one-half the
cost of hauling over a bad road. So a
farmer who hauls his produce to mar
ket over a bad road if it cost him SIOO
a year to haul has paid SSO of this
amount as toll to Cripples Mild and
Sand.
No one is more eligible to become a
good roadmaker than the thrasherman.
In the first place he is generally a hus
tler. He has to be in order to be suc
cessful In his business, for thrashing
doesn’t last the year round, and he has
to be up and doing while it does last.
If anybody obeys the old maxim,
“Make hay while the sun shines,” it is
the thrasherman. Next he has a trac
tion engine, whose power can be used
to pull the plow or grader, to haul the
stone and gravel and to crush the stone
and roll the road. He has the time, too,
in spring and early summer as well as
in the fall to attend to this work.
“Every dog has his day,” and the
good, roads day is here. The thrasher
man * who gets a sample permanent
road to build and does it well with the
advice and help of a technical practi
cal road builder will not only learn
how to make good roads, but wili cre
ate a sentiment for them which will
furnish him employment just as long
as he continues to do well what he un
dertakes. He can work out the statute
labor for the taxpayer by hauling
gravel with his traction engine, and as
soon as the taxpayer sees how much
more good the gravel does than the
worn out earth that he has been scrap
ing out of the ditches year after year
and piling up in the center of the road
he will not fail to g*t “Mr. Thrasher
man Good Roadmaker” to do his road
work for him every season.
Good Roads For Antos.
Robert P. Hooper, the new chair
man of the good roads committee of
the American Automobile association,
recently went to Chicago from New
York for the purpose of conferring with
President John Farson and several oth
er western advocates of the good roads
movement, says the New York Times.
Secretary Gorham said that Mr. Hoop
er’s committee intended to pursue a
more vigorous policy toward exerting
the automobile influence for better
highways than had been the case in
the past. Mr, Hooper is a member of
the Germantown Automobile club, near
Philadelphia, and his pet project now
is the furtherance of the plan to build
a macadamized state highway from
Philadelphia to Pittsburg, a distance
of 248 miles. All of the automobile
clubs of the state are working toward
that end. Not content with this Penn
sylvania road, Mr. Hooper has also pre
pared a rough plan for a continuance
of the highway from Pittsburg to Chi
cago. New York and New Jersey au
tomobilists are still discussing plans
to improve the roads between New
York and Philadelphia.
Value of Cement Gravel.
Many of the roads in the neighbor
hood of Savannah, Ga., have been im
proved with a cement gravel, which is
said to resemble asphalt in its finished
condition. The cost has averaged 1
about $3,500 per mile, and sections that
have been in use for eight or ten years.
are reported to be in good condition
at present. Gravel, marl and clay are,
the constituents of these roads, as they
are of good concrete. There are about
thirty miles of this kind of roadway,
already contracted, and as a result!
there has been added to the ratable]
property of the city about $500,000 for,
automobiles alone.
TIPS AND TIPPING.
The Customary Exactions on Hoard
th Allantic Liners.
Do not take fright at what you may
bear about excessive tips on steamers
and in Europe. They are numerous, but
need not be large. To scatter your
money wildly in tips will mark you
as a novice. All the servants will
quickly spot you, pass the word around
and fleece you. Tips vary, of course,
in accordance with the grade of steam
ers, hotels and other accommodations.
If you travel in a specially equipped
floating palace you must expect to pay
at least $25 for steamer tips. On regu
lar first class steamers, however, the
following are customary and will be
ample: Stateroom steward, $2.50; state
room stewardess, $2.50; dining room
steward, $2.50. These are obligatory.
On the cheaper first class steamers
they may be reduced to $1 each and
be entirely dignified. It all depends on
the boat. By talking with other pas
sengers you can readily learn the cus
tomary scale for your steamer. If you
use the bathroom regularly, pay the
bathroom steward $1; if less frequently
this might be cut to 25 cents a bath.
If you read books from the library,
give the steward a tip varying from
$1 down to 25 cents, according to grade
o? steamer and frequency of his service
to you.
The deck steward’s gratuity is a
variable quantity; he has opportunity
for getting tips from so many people
that he fares better than inside stew
ards, who are restricted to a certain
number; hence do not be uneasy about
him. Give him what you ihink he has
earned in waiting on you, according to
relative service with the other stew
ards. A dollar is the maximum expect
ed on ordinary boats.
Thus your total tips need not exceed
$lO a voyage and may not be more
than $5. Be reasonable in what you
require of stewards, and if you should
ask special service of them outside the
line of their regular duties, pay them
for it.—Myra Emmons in Good House
keeping.
EARTH’S LATENT POWER.
AH Solid Substance May Vanish In a
Moment of Time.
The late Professor S. I*. Langley, sec
retary of the Smithsonian institution,
speaking of earthquakes, said:
“The consideration of the unfamiliar
powers certainly latent In nature, such
as belong to a little tremor of the plan
et’s surface or such as was shown in
that scene I have described,” referring
to phenomena he had witnessed when
the comparatively insignificant effect
of a few tons of dynamite was to
make solid buildings unrealities, “may
help us to understand that the words
of the great poet are but the possible
expression of a physical fact; that ‘the
cloud capped towers, the gorgeous pal
aces, the solemn temples, and we with
them, may indeed some day inconceiv
ably vanish as the airy nothing at the
touch of Prospero’s wand, and without
the warning to us of a single instant
that the security of our ordinary lives
is about to be broken.’
“We concede this, however, in the
present case only as an abstract possi
bility, for the advance of astronomical
knowledge is much more likely to show
that the kernel of the comet is but the
bigness of some large meteorite against
which our air is an efficient shield, and
the chance of evil is most remote—in
any case only such as may come in
any hour of our lives from any quarter,
not alone from the earthquake, but
from the pestilence that walketh in
darkness from the infinitely little be
low and within us as well as from the
infinite powers of the universe without.
“Something common to man and the
brute speaks at such times, if never
before or again; something which is not
altogether physical apprehension, but
more like the moral dismay when the
shock of an earthquake is felt for tlie
first time, and we know that startling
doubt superior to reason whether the
valid frame of earth is real, and not
‘baseless as the fabric of a vision.’
Washington Star.
One Vain Wish.
The Wife—He told me that if I mar
ried him my every wish would be grat
ified. The Mother—Well, is it not so?
The Wife—No; I wish I hadn’t married
him.—Cleveland* Leader.
The nobler the blood tlie less the
nri.de'.—From the Danish.
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There is more catarrh in this sec
tion of the country than all other
diseases put together, and until the
Inst few years was supposed to be
incurable. Fora great many years
doctors pronounced it a local dis
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and by constantly failing to cure
p’ith local treatment, pronounced it
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