Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-06-07

highly excited and infammatory temperature,
SO calm and dispassionate, as well as witty,
an account Of the atmosphsrical influences of the
season as the subjoined. We may be allowed to
congratulate the People of Columbia on being, for
once RECALLED with such dish Of old-fashioned
genuine humor, as substitute for the very opposite
character Of all lis late political speculations.
FROM THE COLUMBIA Is. c) rnIEaRArH OF MAT "a.
SEAsosABLE RErLEcrIoss.-A degree Of unanimi.y sell
dom nstanced has prevailed throughout community
subject days. every body and every body
believed that the weather warm very warm decidedly
Enthusiastically warm. Beef steaks Ia mud (Which used
be in fashion certain boarding house might be made,
is thought BY simply buyns the piece Of beef slightly, while
handful Of sand, taken up random would be equal TO
the quantity Of Goals in making omeettes. Nervous
young gentlemen whose understandings had outgown their
coangs have been heardto excam in Streets the
time fry meas soes and young ladies have been doing
nothing but slipping iced Injuries, and gently repeating
those lines from that celebrated and well named poem The
Task !"
sob for lodge in some vas. wilderness,
Some boundless contguity OF shade"
Every body has said most emphaticaly sit is ,Davm "
both the odes, nhabaut and that universal traveller JoHs
SMITH, concur in the assertion judges on the appeal
ready to admit it without production Of the almanac or
thermometer and our friend P, who known
to agree to any thing say yes dreco any question: has
been heard admit the fact the sincerity Of his convictions
forcing itself through the open pores Of his forehead Elderly
persons who liked before hear read Of the shady
side Of thirty, forty, &c. have been quite willing take the
shady side Of any thing and the grand desdeatum with all
our artists and artisans has been due distribution Of shade,
and sofening down Of the nts. The atmosphere
seems have been changed into burning lens the earth
into FURNISHED reflector and we have been sweer
ing and parchng in the point where the lens and the reflector
had common focus (Bytheby, that word focus itself
warm ID it not most melting, reader y
The roses are no longer red and grass no longer sy
nonym for green that color being only exemp6ed by
ia few bped specimens recently imported whose "nave
hue has been scked Ger by the pale cast Of thought
hot suLs and every body the squire and the captain, and
all the lawyers, and the managers Of elections and the edi
tors and all the other great meneyey body in short says
il is decidedly warm, and every body would aEH most
cdedy COOL should any body have the cold booded audacy
to doubt his word. Dust umbrellas, and the thermometer
up. and seem likely to stay up the rain too up
where the clouds and great many people let their
pers get up, which think decidedly foolish Don't you
think 50 too reader if you gather up energy enough
answer the question
us Whereabouts we left off? Warm weather. we believe
was the theme and like Anacreons harp pen only
celebrate one theme-ss warm weather"-warm weather
warm weather. We almost feel tempted to emgrate
cold corner of the United States pitch
iceberg whose solid substance in the cold purity and prs
chastity Of pmeva congelation, has resisted for ages
the avishing seducons of the gallant Apollo Wonder if
cebegs and ice islands could be imported and accmaed
with us Almost every thing else Northern comes along
this way time other, and why these Evapo-
ration going all around and the depostes that are
dew have been almost suspended Every body feels if his
spirit and life and energy oozng out, like Bob Acres
courage the finger ends and every body feels that be
finger ends all The little fishes getting dry and if
you only whisper rain the ducks they ncont-
nently cry out whar whar whar !" while the ganders
the weather with indignant Kissing The students say
they cannot sudy-a phenomenon-and they have the
greatest disposition in the world to get up breeze if some
Espy would only teach them how to raise the wind Every
body repeat "abeit unused to the melting mood" has
been moved and melted by the Indicative Imperative
and potential mood which the has lately assumed and
number have been blasted by Phabus with most un-
poetic FIRE.
After these preliminary remarks, by way Of introduc,on
to the main body Of our subject After cool and
dspassonate examination Of the have been
able to make venture to express the opinion ourselves
that is olerably warm If any responsible goodookng
reader denies that assertion challenge him Cor her to
meet in shady place with ce-cream and lemonade
for two and if any thinks remarks unsuitable or
unreasonable, be may make reflections Of his own he
please', without danger Of making us wax warmer We
repeat most INTERESTINGLY, yet with all Difference to the
opinions Of others, that it is " rather warm" fi
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