New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-17
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" Words sometimes fail to convey an
accurate Idea ofthe feelings and experience becomes ne
.syO knowledge So any denizen of dist ant parts
of soueered and cool retreats In the country should
ask us how hot it was In NewYOrk yesterday our reply
could ony,most family shadow forth the truth The boys
would ssy the weather was some and we might
add that In comparative degree, 1t was summer But
no words wreaked upon expression VIII answer
The day before was awful hot yesterday was an en-
Iarged and intensified second edition. Inc mercury
hat few days since fingered around 1O' has shot up
.lno.. 10 1902. and seems determined not TO re-
tarn The very air Is rarihod-ln iact' oreath
n sir Of Apy sort Is rarity-and feels as
one fances would those blasts spoken oil oy
Hamlet TO his fathers ghost; the 10 fierce DO
yopd belief and his rays strike like simeon clouds
~ before him in terror and only return when he Is
conc and they are not wanted; rain mocks us with
promises made to DO broken, and storms descend
upon the ocean, the place of all others where
there Is water enough. II people did not cry out
sealnst the weather yesterday, 1t was simply
because they could not spare breath to do so
Some idea of the oppressive heat may be gathered
from the fact that the surly Post, fairly roast
cd out at last said that If this temperature should con
tnue, he should certainly say something unpleasant.
could not print more unpleasant thing than the range
Of the thermometer. Our reporters bring us nearya
dozen cases Of death from sunstroke yesterday in this
City Brooklyn, Wiamsburgh and Jersey City The
early evening promised ruin, but we got scarcely
sprinkle, and the heat was very oppressive until mid
Agh when cool breeze sprung up, and gave hope OF
more agreeable temperature to-day.
THE PALM-LEAF MANIA,-The swelter-
Ing hOmeward bound crowds yesterday afternoon pre-.
snied novel and almost ludcrou, sight Daring the
days squadron of boys invaded the business streets
with any quantity of Pamlesf Fans, which they cried
Tor sale at three cents each They just In time
catch the topmosl wave of popularity everybody was
roasting and gasping under the Implying sun, and
he palm coolers went of like hot cakes. Al the close
Of business thousands Of citizens wended home ward
knning their rubieund visages with their pur.
ehsses and many man in the Incorporate zeal of no,
blood had got from two TO dozen fans, probably
for each member of his family lnasniuch it an
entirely "new notion, the sight Of 50 many hundreds
Of men flaming themselves along the streets was the
wonder Of the day. Perhaps the "instituon" may be-
come permanent; and why not since ladies seldom go
abroad wihou. rich fen, why should not men be al
bowed 10 dspgle at their wrists the modest bat equally
Useful three cent palmlesfi The idea may be absurd,
est L cannot DC too cool.
ElshTH AVENUE RAILRoAD.-The Board
q Assistants last nigh, revoked tee permission hereto
lore given to Petiigew 4 Co 70 build this road and
made over the power TO another company. Since no
one seems anxious to take hold this road suppose the
isahers &c, out Of the manger aud let the S,xhav.
company SET their cars in motion Can nothing induce
iaen to dc this fayort
kAPID TRAvELING.-The trains on the
naasOn River and Central Line Of lroads are so
naged Ast passengers leave New.YofS at A. NJ, Al.
ANY lO'ei Utica, Up NJ; Syracuse, 81 Rochester
Oat O'Clock arriving a, Buffalo before In the
s Ntast honr boats leave for Cleveland, Detroit
aCh1eago; SO that one may breakfast in New.York,
Nqh Utica, sup bet Eeen Bafalo and Erie, taking
ssksst The morning in Cleveland, dine a, noon
peroh, ard reach Chicago In time for early sup
~ The distance thus travelled in less than Is hours,
mere than thousand miles
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP GLASGOW.
me steamship Glasgow, Capt Craig, arrived at this
'es'erday afternoon, having sailed from Glasgow
s'e ist Inst al PM A list of her passengers will
under the appropriate head.
~ The steamship Asia sailed yester-
W. @r Liverpool. with large number Of passengers.
A.. a'e among them, sigror Benedesti and family,
sAeisr Forrest and sister Charlotte Cushmsn